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  • Undaunted Creation

    PTC is a home for artists to learn about their own practices, experiment, and fearlessly challenge themselves. We’re raising vital funds to support PTC’s next act. Donate today to Undaunted Creation and continue empowering playwrights in creating urgent, daring, and creatively risky stories on our stages. Join us Monday, December…

  • PTC x PuSh Dramaturgical Clinics return in 2025!

    PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Playwrights Theatre Centre are accepting submissions for Dramaturgy Clinics for artists developing new work.  The Dramaturgy Clinics are free, 1.5 hour dramaturgical consultations for local artists from any performing arts or interdisciplinary practice currently engaged at any phase in a creative process. Consultations are…

  • Davey Samuel Calderon, Joanna Garfinkel, and Melanie Yeats take on shared leadership of Playwrights Theatre Centre

    September 9, 2024 Originally founded in 1970 (as the New Play Centre) PTC has gone from script reading service, to new play festival, to a year-round theatre-making company. More than 50 years on, PTC’s unique focus on dramaturgical practice has made an outsized impact in the Canadian theatre landscape. Stewarded…

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Our playwrights are working on some great projects.

Headshot of playwright Mily Mumford PTC Associates
PTC 2024

Are you a playwright interested in receiving trained, appropriate feedback for your work? Our dramaturgs are here to provide meaningful recommendations and help you get to the next phase! Open to submissions from across Canada, our Dramaturgical Reading Program is perfect for playwrights who are looking for a structured and critical response to their completed one-act or full-length play. We welcome submissions from playwrights at any stage of their careers. After receiving your completed submission, one of our experienced dramaturgs will respond with a report that includes a detailed analysis of your script, constructive criticism, and questions for consideration as you move forward with the next draft. Find out more at playwrightstheatre.com/programs/dramaturgical-reading/

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Really Queer Voices - a new podcast by Scott Button. Really Queer Voices

Join us in welcoming our Block D 2023 cohort! Victoria Bell, Chelsea Carlson, Ashley Chodat, Marc Castellini, Lili Robinson, and Jesse Del Fierro will be working with Dramaturg, Creative Engagement Joanna Garfinkel over 10 weeks in a small and supportive cohort to expand their dramaturgical tool kits and breadth of experience.

Kamila, a Filipinx woman with a shaved head and an oval birthmark on her left cheek, smiles in front of a white background. Sunshine glints across her face and gold jewellery, creating a mosaic of shadow and light across her light brown sweater. PTC Associates

Episode three of Really Queer Voices is here! In the final episode of the season, host Scott Button has a conversation with Continental Breakfast, Vancouver drag superstar and multi-hyphenate artist. Listen in to hear about the story behind their iconic name, the birth of their group “The Darlings” and the triumphant return of local drag.

UNSCRIPTED: Engkanto
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