Colleen Curran
 Colleen Curran is a Quebec playwright, novelist, teacher and actor who has written more than 20 plays that have been staged across Canada, the United States and Australia.  Her three comedic novels about a singing waitress are titled Something Drastic, Overnight Sensation and Guests of Chance. 
References
- Reid, Gregory J., Constructing English Quebec Ethnicity: Colleen Curran's Something Drastic and Josée Legault's L'invention d'une minorité : Les Anglo-Québécois, MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 1998.