Website: Playwrights' Atlantic Resource Centre

Founded: 1991

Office Location:
Administration:                                           

P.O. Box 33038                                                                                   
Quinpool RPO                                                                                     
Halifax, NS   B3L 4T6                                                                        
                                                                                                               
Library and Artistic Director:
Crabtree Building, B 10 & 11,
Mount Allison University
49 A York Street
Sackville, NB E4L 1C7

Contact Information:
Jenny Munday, Artistic Director
Telephone - (506) 364-2122
Fax - (506) 364-2614

Toll-Free 1-877-845-1341

Bruce Klinger, General Management Service Provider
Telephone - (902) 423-5358
Fax - (902) 425-1819

Contact by Email:

Artistic Director:   parcdramaturge@ns.sympatico.ca
Administration:  parcadminstration@ns.sympatico.ca
Membership and Communications (e-bulletin): parcoffice@ns.sympatico.ca

Library: parclibrary@mta.ca

Artistic Director : Jenny Munday (Full-time: September to May)

Mandate: PARC contributes to the development and promotion of Atlantic Canadian plays and playwrights, encourages a sense of community among playwrights, and works in the community to create a climate in which Atlantic Canadian theatre is embraced and celebrated regionally, nationally and internationally.

Membership: approx. 120, including new, emerging and established playwrights, academics, regional Artistic Directors and theatre companies. Playwriting, Supporting, Company and Youth memberships are available.

Serving: Playwrights in all four Atlantic Provinces.

Other Staff:

General Management Service Provider: Bruce Klinger Arts Management Consulting

Membership and Communications Coordinator: Karen Chung

Library: Student Intern

• Home Delivery, brings together playwrights  and dramaturges by mail, phone, e-mail or FAX
• Kitchen Table Readings, allow a playwright to bring readers together in an informal atmosphere for a first reading of a new work
• Script Development Workshops
• Playwrights' Colony, an intensive two week playwrights' colony, held annually.
• Playwrights in Residence at the PARC Library
• Playwright Exchanges with other play development centres across the country
• Playwrights in Performance Cabarets
• Professional Development Workshops
• Annual fund raising events
• Catalogue Of Atlantic Canadian Plays, weekly E-Bulletins, Guideline for Atlantic Playwrights, toll free number, resource and referrals

With Bated Breath, by Bryden MacDonald, produced by Centaur Theatre, Spring 2009

Bone Cage by Catherine Banks, produced Forerunner Playwrights Co-op, Published by Playwrights Canada Press, Governor General Award Winner, 2008

All Fall Down by Wendy Lill, produced by Alberta Theatre Project's playRites Festival, Neptune Theatre and others, Governor General Award Nominee

Safe Haven by Mary Colin Chisholm, produced by Mulgrave Road Theatre, Blyth Festival, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre and others

Robert Chafe's Silent Partner, produced by Artistic Fraud of St. John's, Newfoundland, then presented by Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax and across the country

Berni Stapleton's The Pope and Princess Di, On The Verge, Ottawa; Premiere production at Artistic Fraud Theatre in St John's in the Fall of 2004

Don Hannah's There is a Land of Pure Delight at On The Verge at Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Edmonton in June, 2004; Live Bait Theatre,  2008.