Florence Gibson MacDonald is a Canadian playwright.
[1] She is best known for her plays Belle, which was a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2000[2] and a winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 2001,[3] and Home Is My Road, which won the Carol Bolt Award in 2004.
[1] Her other plays have included Missing, i think i can, How Do I Love Thee?, Augury and Love Handles, as well as radio plays for CBC Radio.
[1] Formerly a medical doctor, Gibson wrote several short plays which were produced on the fringe festival circuit before her success with Belle, her first full-length play.
[4] She then devoted herself to full-time writing.