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  • CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Block D

    Are you an artist interested in boosting your dramaturgy skills? Applications for PTC’S Block D are open! Whether you identify as a dramaturg or are engaged in dramaturgical and devised performance work, we welcome your application! Block D is for artists who help to shape, nurture and create all kinds…

  • Dive into PTC Platforms!

    PTC Platforms is a space to explore the worlds of five projects in development. The playwrights and their collaborators are bringing their themes and imagery into film, audio, illustration, music, and interactives, following their ideas into new online spaces. It’s an invitation to think of theatre as a springboard that…

  • PTC and Public Swoon launch online UNSCRIPTED: Mermaid Spring

    Be part of the development and explore the UNSCRIPTED: Mermaid Spring online! PTC and The Public Swoon invite you to enjoy a taste of the development of Mermaid Spring, a new work of interdisciplinary music theatre focused on deep co-creation, slow process and social handcraft.  Witness textile artist and representative…

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Woman of South Asian descent with shoulder-length black hair and bright smile Zahida Rahemtulla
Derek Chan. Photo by Sarah Race Derek Chan

re 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/

Square image of the headshots of the ECD cohort. ECD Cohort 2022
Veronique, a white non-binary person with side-swept, shoulder-length sandy blond hair, smiles while looking to the left. They are wearing a black blazer over a blue button-down shirt Veronique West

Tickets for The Frontliners by Zahida Rahemtulla are out now! Don't miss out on this incredible play showing November 10-13th, 2022. Presented in partnership with Vancouver Fringe The Frontliners is the winner of our New Play in Development Prize 2022. As well as the national 2021 Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award, Theatre BC’s 2020 Play of Special Merit Award.

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. Kamila Sediego
A photo of one performer standing and Kamila Sediego sitting in a theatre space. Engkanto in Process

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.

Pedro Chamale Pedro Chamale
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