Website: Alberta Playwrights' Network

Founded: 1985

Location:
2633 Hochwald Ave S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T3E 7K2
Liaison in Edmonton

Contact Information:
Johanne Deleeuw
Telephone - (403) 269-8564
Toll Free - 1-800-268-8564
Fax - (403) 265-6773
Contact by Email

Executive Director: Johanne Deleeuw

Administrative Assistant : Val Lieske Resident Dramaturge: Trevor Reuger Edmonton Liasons : Brian Dooley and Tracy Carroll

Mandate: To foster playwriting activities across Alberta; to develop a community of persons to support and encourage each other in the writing of plays; to provide programs for new play development; to develop resources for professional development, accessible to all Albertans.

Membership: 160 emerging and established Playwrights and supporters of playwriting.

Serving: approx. 80 Playwrights, 150 actors, and 34 director/dramaturgs in any given year

Other Staff: Edmonton Liaison - David Belke;
Calgary office Assistant Val Lieske

• One-on-one feedback and commentary by a professional dramaturg
• One to three day workshops with professional actors and an experienced director
• Script Intensive - two-day workshop to assist a writer in the final stages of work
• Playwright's Circles - education and seminars for emerging and mid-career Playwrights
• Public Reading Series - Period reading series in Edmonton & Calgary
• PlayWorks Ink - Annual Theatre Conference and Festival of Staged Readings
• Alberta Playwriting Competition
• Resource library, newsletter and email service
• Check out our website for more!

Einstien's Gift by Vern Thiessen received early development work in 1996. The play went on to a production at The Citadel Theatre and won the Governor General's Award for Drama in 2003.

The Last Train by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic won the Alberta Playwriting Award in 2003 and was developed through PlayWorks Ink; premiered by Shadow Theatre in Edmonton.

Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte won the 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition and premiered at Alberta Theatre Project's playRites 2002; won the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play and was published in 2002 by Playwrights' Canada Press. Thirteen productions across Canada in 2003.

Apple by Vern Thiessen won the 2001 Alberta Playwriting Competition and was produced by Workshop West Theatre in 2002; it won a Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play.