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  • Call for Applications: Fringe New Play Prize 2020

    The Vancouver Fringe Festival and PTC are calling for applications for the eighth year of the Fringe New Play Prize. Through the Fringe New Play Prize, PTC and the Vancouver Fringe offer BC artists a leg up in the process of creating and producing with material support. BC writers and producing teams with a project underway for the 2020 Fringe season are encouraged to submit. 

  • PTC Announces WrightSpace 2019

    This year’s PTC WrightSpace residency (January 10-19, 2020) welcomes Catherine Joell MacKinnon to Vancouver to develop her bilingual (ASL-English) play, Inaudibility World.

  • PTC Announces Block A Participants 2019

    We are pleased to announce that, once again, the number of playwrights submitting to Block A, PTC’s popular program for emerging writers, has been plentiful, so four sessions are being convened, two in the fall and two in winter.

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Our playwrights are working on some great projects.

Lili Robinson Lili Robinson
Jovanni Sy Jovanni Sy

Congrats to all the winners but especially to Lili Robinson, Joanna Garfinkel and the whole team of Mx at the Vancouver Fringe for winning the Cultchivating the Fringe Award! We knew this show had legs. #newplays #indietheatre #fnpp

Barbara Adler Barbara Adler
Rzgar Hama Rzgar Hama

It is with sadness that we share news of the passing of BC Lee, our friend from the cast of Derek Chan’s Chicken Girl (May 2019). BC was an integral part of the development of the play, and as rice & beans theatre co-AD Derek Chan notes, "He truly became everybody's uncle and brightened up all of our lives.” BC was so modest about all of his accomplishments, whether travelling to support cultural exchange, leading in his community, or his wealth of language knowledge. He and Derek shared many a joke in Cantonese, and his nuanced questions helped refine the text for Uncle Chan during rehearsal. He brought his philosophy and tremendous work ethic to the ensemble, and was truly engaged in the lives of his cast mates. This intergenerational connection was at the heart of the play onstage and off. PTC offers its condolences to BC’s family, friends and colleagues. We will take his teachings with us always.

Carmen Aguirre Carmen Aguirre
Robert Leveroos Robert Leveroos

Check out Creative Users Projects' new project Accessing the Arts – Canada’s first digital accessible arts and events listing that uses open linked data to enhance opportunities for artists with disabilities and increase the discoverability of accessible arts in Canada.

Pedro Chamale Pedro Chamale
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