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Francis Urias Peters es un dramaturgo de procedencia grenadina.  Se graduó en el Edna Manley College for Visual & Performing Arts (antes, The Jamaica School of Drama). Ha escrito y dirigido cerca de veinte obras de teatro y de radio. Tres de sus series dramáticas para radio - Mervin´s Story (sobre el abuso de drogas), Olivia´s Cry (sobre el abuso de drogas) y Shadows of Darkness (Sobre el VIH/SIDA)- han ganado el premio anual PAHO/WHO Caribbean awards por la excelencia en periodismo de salud.  Sus obras completas como A case of Incest, A New Beginning, The Junction Box, Struggle y The Burial of Miss Faithlyn han ayudado a abordar temas culturales y sociales del Caribe actual. Redemption Time, ambientada durante la era Gairy/PRG es su más reciente trabajo. Peters ha ganado diversos premios relacionados a su trabajo en educación pública y el teatro. Sus obras de teatro han sido puestas en escena en los Estados Unidos y en St. Kitts, Nevis, Barbados, Trinidad Turcos y Caicos.

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Francis Urias Peters is a Grenadian born playwright. He is a graduate of the Edna Manley College for Visual & Performing Arts (formerly the Jamaica School of Drama). He has written and directed over twenty radio and stage plays. Three of his radio drama series - Mervin's Story (on drug abuse), Olivia's Cry (on drug abuse) and Shadows of Darkness  (on HIV/AIDS) - have won major awards at the Annual PAHO/WHO Caribbean awards for excellence in health journalism. His full-length plays such as A Case of Incest, A New Beginning, The Junction Box, Struggle, and The Burial of Miss Faithlyn, have all helped to address pertinent social and cultural Caribbean themes.  Redemption Time, set during the Gairy/PRG era, is Peters' most recent work. Peters has won several awards related to his work in public education and theatre. His plays have been performed in the USA and Caribbean islands such as St.Kitts, Nevis, Barbados, Trinidad and Turks and Caicos.