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Playwrights' Workshop Montréal

Playwrights' MontréalWebsite: Playwrights' Workshop Montréal

Founded: 1963, by the Western Quebec division of the Dominion Drama Festival

Location:
5337 Boul. St. Laurent, Suite 240
Montréal, Quebec
H2T 1S5

Contact Information: 514.843.3685

Artistic Director: Emma Tibaldo, emma@playwrights.ca

Artist in Residence: Greg MacArthur, greg@playwrights.ca

General Manager : June Park, june@playwrights.ca

Mandate: Playwrights' Workshop Montréal is a leading professional theatre centre dedicated to the development of contemporary work and new writers for the Canadian stage, whose objective is to provide a critical and vibrant environment for the playwright to further his or her craft.

Membership: a national member-based organization

Serving: over 200 playwrights and 100 actors each year

Programs:

  • One-on-One Dramaturgy
  • In-House Readings and Workshops
  • Staged Readings
  • Tadoussac Playwrights' Residence (Translations)
  • Playwrights' Unit
  • Artist-in-Residence Programs
  • Master Classes and professional development
  • Transmissions - selects successfully produced French Quebecois and English
    Canadian plays and translates them into the other language
  • electronic newsletter the PWM Newsflash & yearly e-publication, The Works

Some plays that started out with Playwrights' Workshop Montréal

Marie Clements' Burning Vision was produced in 2002 by Rumble Productions, Vancouver, and was nominated for 6 Jessie Awards including Outstanding New Play and the Governor General's Award.

Peter Hinton's The Swanne (PART I, 2 and 3) were produced at the Stratford Festival in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Tomson Highway's acclaimed script, premiered in Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille, and received a 1989 Chalmers New Play Award. It was later given a large-scale commercial production at the Royal Alex; and has been produced numerous times since.