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Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre

Saskatchewan Playwrights CentreWebsite: Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre

Founded: 1983

Location:
P.O. Box 3092
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7K 3S9

Contact Information:
Heather Inglis, Sheila Angelstad
sk.playwrights@sasktel.net
Office (306) 665-7707
Fax (306) 244-0255

Dramaturg: Heather Inglis (part-time)

Mandate: a playwright-driven organization devoted to the development of Saskatchewan plays and the promotion of our playwriting community provincially and nationally.

Serving: Approx.100 Saskatchewan playwrights. Employing playwrights, actors, directors, and dramaturgs locally and nationally.

Other Staff: part-time administrator, Sheila Angelstad

Programs:

  • One-on-one consultations with playwrights
  • Detailed feedback from a dramaturgical committee
  • In-house workshops
  • Staged public readings
  • Scholarships
  • Internship program for emerging artists
  • National Playwright Exchange Program
  • Classes and Seminars
  • 24-hour Playwriting Competition
  • Spring Festival of New Plays —annual showcase of staged readings
  • Playwrights Colony
  • Aboriginal Playwrights Circle
  • Communication resources including: website, newsletter and ezine

Plays developed at Saskatchewan Playwrights' Centre include:

Mansel Robinson’s: Two Room’s, Picking Up Chekhov, Bite The Hand, Ghost Trains, Scorched Ice, Spitting Slag, The Heart As It Lived, Collateral Damage. Kelly Jo Berk’s The Selkie Wife; Daniel Macdonald’s: MacGreggor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas and Pageant, Connie Gault’s: Otherwise Bob; Janice Selkeld’s Learning the Game; Leeann Minogue’s Dry Streak.