Playwrights' Development Centres

Canadian Centre for Theatre Creation

Website: Canadian Centre for Theatre Creation cctc.ualberta.ca

Founded: 2008

Location:
                                    3-146 Fine Arts Building
                                    University of Alberta
                                    Edmonton, AB
                                    T6J 2C9

Or Drop by Our Office:

                                    CCTC Office
                                    8919 HUB Mall
                                    On the U of A Campus

Contact Information:
Director:         Kim McCaw
                                    kim.mccaw@ualberta.ca
                                    Office: 3-109 Fine Arts Building
                                    telephone: 780-492-1095
                                    fax: 780-492-8215

            Associate Director: Kate Weiss
                                    kathleen.weiss@ualberta.ca
                                    Office: 3-120 Fine Arts Building
                                    telephone: 780-492-8721
                                    fax: 780-492-8215

            Administrator: Ian Leung
                                    ileung@ualberta.a
                                    telephone: 780-248-1261
                                    fax: 780-492-8215

Mandate: At the CCTC, theatre creators and scholars alike explore new theatrical creation and dramaturgy. We bring together independent artists, theatre companies and researchers to examine and experiment with new approaches to creation, development and production and exchange information about their processes and discoveries.

Creation: We develop new Canadian scripts with workshops and conventional dramaturgical support for playwrights. We also extend our support of theatrical creation, embracing innovative uses of multimedia, inter-disciplinary and non-text based approaches, and other new creative processes.
We provide space, time and expertise, forge partnerships to generate discoveries in theatrical settings, and explore the diversity of Canadian theatre.
Production: We facilitate readings, workshops, and new theatrical productions on our own as well as cooperatively with other Canadian theatre companies.
Scholarship: We engage artists, researchers, dramaturgs and scholars in a critical discourse on the rapidly expanding field of theatrical creation and production

Membership: None. The CCTC works in partnership and collaboration with theatre creators and scholars across the country to bring new Canadian work to production or production readiness and to generate research on new theatre and the creative process. These creative and academic relationships are forged at the Centre’s invitation or by independent solicitation of the CCTC

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Programs: The CCTC is project-based, responding to initiatives and opportunities as they arrive at our door, or are generated by CCTC directors or members.

Working Title Festival: Working Title is a platform for the public presentation of new works-in-progress at the Centre. Beginning small, the plan is to grow this showcase into a festival that includes full-scale productions of stage-ready pieces.
Working Title's first incarnation was a mini-festival of readings that took place on the Fine Arts Building's Corner Stage on the evenings of May 1-3, 2009. These free, public events were preceded by round-the-table workshops of the presented plays with Centre Director Kim McCaw and Associate Director Kathleen Weiss participating as dramaturgs.
The playwrights whose work was featured in the premier edition of Working Title came to Edmonton from all over North America.
The CCTC is now planning the line-up for Working Title 2010.
Commissions: The CCTC is actively seeking funding sources and producing partners to extend a program of commissioning new work for the theatre. These commissions are for the creation of many different forms of new theatre, not limited only to playwrights and text-based production.
Lunchbox Chats: The CCTC sponsors regular "Lunch Box Chats" hosted by CCTC Director Kim McCaw or by University of Alberta Lee Playwright in Residence Kevin Kerr. These chats have been video recorded and will eventually be posted on CCTC's new, expanded website which is expected to launch in late 2009 or early 2010.
Development Highlights: The CCTC is currently working with a number of companies and independent theatre artists to develop and produce new theatrical creations.

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Canadian Centre for Theatre Creation

Programs: The CCTC is project-based, responding to initiatives and opportunities as they arrive at our door, or are generated by CCTC directors or members.

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