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Welcome to our new Block D 2023 cohort! These 6 artists will be working with Dramaturg, Creative Engagement Joanna Garfinkel over the next 10 weeks in a small and supportive cohort to expand their dramaturgical tool kits and breadth of experience. Join us in welcoming Victoria Bell, Chelsea Carlson, Ashley…
UNSCRIPTED: It Lives in My Bedroom (ILIMB) is excited to invite you back in-person to PTC on Friday, February 17, 2023 at 7:30pm PST at Progress Lab! Playwright, director and researcher Mily Mumford, with design collaboration by Chimerik 似不像 – Lighting, Projection Design & New Media Art Collective, brings you into the world of It Lives in my Bedroom.
Calling all theatre artists and playwrights! PTC and the Vancouver Fringe Festival are seeking their eleventh winner in this newly re-vamped Fringe New Play Prize. Be sure to apply before the end of this month. Over an eighteen-month period, PTC will collaborate with the selected theatre artist or artistic team…
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…
PTC and rice and beans theatre AGM is here! When: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 7:30 pm PT Where: Online (Zoom)*, from Vancouver, BC *If you are unable to connect via Zoom, please note “in-person” in the RSVP form by December 2nd, 2022 to attend at Progress Lab 1422. Attend…
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…
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…
We are pleased to introduce you to the Block A Fall 2022 cohort. These 12 writers will work with mentors David Geary and Nicola Harwood for ten weeks starting this October. The writers working with David are Andy Kalirai, Ashley Chodat, Jessica Harvey, Krystal Kavita Jagoo, Marya Folinsbee, and Reese…
PTC is excited to announce a special Vancouver Fringe Festival presentation! A workshop production of The Frontliners by Zahida Rahemtulla is happening this November 2022. As our New Play in Development winner, Zahida is producing a limited run at the Waterfront Theatre. Get your tickets now, for… The Frontliners by…
Join us to celebrate another year of cultivating and harvest as the DTES Neighbourhood House Urban Farm is back in full operation this year. Come for farm tours, food, a community market, workshops, and live entertainment. Great activities for everyone (kid-friendly)!
On behalf of the team behind The Frontliners, Playwrights Theatre Centre is looking to cast two actors
PTC is thrilled welcome Amy Amantea to the team as Accessibility Consultant!
PTC welcomes Lili Robinson as our Community Engagement Producer.
Maraya Franca joins us as the PTC Platforms Assistant.
PTC is thrilled to announce our 2022 ECD cohort of playwright-producers: Emmet Hanley, Argel Monte de Ramos, and Alexander Zonjic, with external mentor June Fukumura and dramaturg Joanna Garfinkel.
PTC is pleased to welcome Kit McKeown as our new Communications Manager
We are pleased to introduce you to the Block A Winter 2022 cohort. These 12 writers will work with mentors Joanna Garfinkel and Veronique West for ten weeks starting in January 2022.
Are you a people-person who is passionate about connecting artists and their communities? Do you have a vision for how PTC’s projects can connect with the community? Can you create a plan to make it happen? If this is you, we’d love to hear your ideas for the Community Engagement Producer role with PTC. Apply by Jan 4, 2022.
Do you have a passion for integrating theatre and accessibility practice together? Are you an advocate for underrepresented communities? Do you excel at working across platforms, from the digital to in-person events? If this is you, apply for the Accessibility Coordinator role with PTC by the EXTENDED DEADLINE: Tuesday January 11th, 2022 at 4:00 PM PST.
Meet our Fall 2021 Block A cohort, a group of emerging theatre artists matched with mentors David Geary and Fay Nass.
WE’RE HIRING! Are you an exceptional communicator searching for a creative home? Do you have a vision for how PTC connects with the world? PTC is looking for a Communications Manager! APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED to Fri Nov. 5, 2021!
Up for testing immersive digital art? Interested in joining a conversation about mental health, language, and lineage? Have a phone? We want you! We’re seeking test audience members for the app-based experience of Szepty/Whispers: Dialogue, as part of the Unscripted Series.
We are thrilled to welcome participants in the Vancouver leg of the Digital Dramaturgy Initiative. The cohort will meet September 20-25, 2021 to explore digital dramaturgy for theatre on- and off-line.
PTC is looking for an audience services assistant for our upcoming Unscripted: Szepty/Whispers, an audio and text geolocation app and QR reader experience, Sept 27 – Oct 3, 2021. APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Tuesday, September, 2021, midnight PDT
PTC is looking for a producer to manage digital works or recordings created by 7 – 8 artists as part of our upcoming season, Sept. 2021 to Oct. 2022. Application deadline: September 9, 2021
Application deadline: July 15, 2021, midnight PDST This position requires in-person work in Vancouver. Access to a vehicle is an asset. Are you at home in OBS or Streamyard? Can you troubleshoot meeting platforms without skipping a beat? Can you make a beautiful online schedule to create order out of…
PTC is calling for applications for our most popular program for emerging theatre artists and established writers interested in performance: Block A 2021-22. APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED to August 24, 2021
We are pleased to announce that we have chosen four playwrights as PTC Associates 2021-24! Find out who they are and learn more about their fabulous projects.
PTC will host 4-6 projects in residence, September 20-25, 2021, to explore digital dramaturgy for theatre on- and off-line. We continue investigations begun by our partners in Montreal and Winnipeg into digital forms in theatre practice.
New to cold reads? Want to feel more confident in your cold reading skills? Whether you’re taping auditions for new or unpublished plays or prepping for podcast or online play reading recordings, Cold Reads and Fast Takes on New Material will give you tools to make the most of a text.
We are excited to announce that playwright Zahida Rahemtulla will join PTC for a new program: the PTC New Play in Development Prize.
Playwrights Theatre Centre is searching for four playwrights working towards their best and most ambitious work to date for our Associates program. DEADLINE TO APPLY EXTENDED TO MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021.
PTC is delighted to partner with Visceral Visions to offer our Indigenous and racialized members/associated artists the opportunity to get one year of membership FREE in CultureBrew.Art – a $25 value! Promo code expires midnight on March 31, 2021.
PTC is seeking a Foundation Grant Writer for a short term contract (April – July 2021). Apply by March 15th.
A tribute to Indigenous artist, actor, advocate, poet, and playwright, Taran Kootenhayoo, who passed away suddenly on New Year’s Eve 2020.
We are pleased to announce that as our Fall 2020 cohort wraps up, we welcome another group of wonderful emerging writers coming into Block A in January 2021.
PTC welcomes three artists joining us January to June, 2021 as part of our Dramaturg Launch Pad, funded by the BC Arts Council’s Early Career Development program.
Meet the WrightSpace 2020 cohort, who will be investigating and applying different means of increasing access under COVID, “Beyond the Zoom.”
November 19-29, 2020, Digitally Streaming Online. PTC is excited to support the independent launch of JK JK’s Catalina La O Presenta: Ahora Conmigo. Originally selected as the Fringe New Play Prize winner, Catalina is being released digitally outside of the festival context to respond to the creative opportunities and challenges of the pandemic. The independent production, set in an abandoned television studio, translates beautifully to the screen. With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Originals, JK JK has crafted a digital theatre experience that brings the best of both media together.
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.
The Vancouver Fringe Festival and Playwrights Theatre Centre are calling for applications for the ninth year of the Fringe New Play Prize. Through the Fringe New Play Prize, PTC and the Vancouver Fringe offer emerging BC theatre artists a leg up in the process of creating and producing with material support. BC writers and creative producing teams with a project underway for the 2021 Fringe season are encouraged to submit.
Kathleen Flaherty, PTC’s Dramaturg since 2012, will retire on October 1, 2020. We celebrate her illustrious career and future endeavours.
PTC is proud to welcome Joanna Garfinkel to the team in the new position of Dramaturg, Creative Engagement. After a robust search and in consultation with the community, Joanna’s excellence in engaged practice, her deep connections in the community, and her significant producing and management knowledge made her the unequivocal choice.
PTC is recognizing the exceptional leadership contributions of Melanie Yeats, our Operations Manager, as she moves into the new position of Creative Managing Director.
Join the PTC team in this part-time role focused on researching, developing and leading in the dramaturgy of new plays at PTC. Deadline to apply is July 31st, 2020!
PTC’s Artistic and Executive Director acknowledges and provides context for her acceptance of the Vancouver NOW Award.
PTC is thrilled to welcome Davey Calderon as our new Dramaturg, Public Engagement. In this position, Davey will lead on our Unscripted program, our Blocks, and our ongoing commitment to engaging communities in the development of new work. He will also continue his own active dramaturgical practice. Learn more about Davey.
We are excited to share vAct’s announcement of the 2020-21 MSG Lab Playwrights. The MSG Lab is vAct’s Playwrighting Theatre Program for developing new Asian Canadian work. Over the next eight months, the MSG playwrights will be receiving development support for their new scripts and working with PTC dramaturgs.
In the coming weeks, PTC will be amplifying some of the community leaders who are supporting our community’s essential needs. Whether you can share their story or contribute resources, we invite you to celebrate the resilience and solidarity of our friends and neighbours. For six years, PTC called Vancouver’s Chinatown…
PTC is beginning a new chapter in its creative development, as we bring in two new staff dramaturg positions between June and September 2020. The two positions will be creative partners to the Artistic & Executive Director, playing complementary roles in the development of PTC’s vision for reimagining theatre. The…
This spring, PTC will be hiring a new dramaturg to join Kathleen and Heidi. It will be a part-time staff position based in Vancouver. Are you a dramaturg, engaged with community, and with skills for producing and planning? Watch this space in April for a full job description and application details.
As a precaution in light of rapidly developing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community, our office will be closed until further notice. PTC staff are working remotely and some of our programs and workshops will proceed virtually. We are sending much love and compassion to our community. We are compiling an ongoing list of resources to help you through this.
We are pleased to announce the participants in the Block P 2020.
PTC and the Vancouver Fringe Festival are pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Fringe New Play Prize.
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.
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 is convening our thirteenth annual 10-day residency, WrightSpace, in Vancouver, BC, in January of 2020. This year, we are interested in creating an opportunity for creative exchange with Deaf artists.
We are pleased to announce the participants in this year’s Block P (Producing for Theatre): Mairy Beam, Kagan Goh, Rebecca Walters and Ilana Zackon, join the producer of the Fringe New Play Prize 2019 winning project (Mx) Shanae Sodhi.
PTC and the Vancouver Fringe Festival are pleased to announce that Lili Robinson has won the Fringe New Play Prize with her work Mx.
PTC is pleased to announce that Jess Amy Shead joins us as our Community Engaged Producing Intern from October 2018 – July 2019.
Where does our food come from? Who grows it? Who is nourished by it? Join playwright Pedro Chamale for words and music from his play-in-progress that brings temporary foreign farm workers centre stage – the unseen people who plant, tend, and harvest. Share food and stories in a family-friendly event that reveals the links in Canada’s food chain.
We believe in the creative impulses of our artists. Help PTC say, “Yes, let’s” to new Canadian plays by WrightSpace 2018 playwrights Barbara Adler, Tai Amy Grauman, Robert Hamilton and Yvonne Wallace. Our goal is to raise $3000 by November 15 to ensure these artists have cultural consultants, designers, actors and space to dream! Donate at CanadaHelps.org today.
PTC is pleased to welcome our longtime friend and colleague mia susan amir into a co-mentorship with Artistic & Executive Director Heidi Taylor. As PTC’s Dramaturgy Research Associate, mia will advise on inclusive process design for our upcoming WrightSpace residency, and bear witness to the residency in December. Heidi will support mia’s development of access protocols and visioning for future projects.
This year’s PTC WrightSpace residency (Dec. 5 – 15, 2018) brings four writers together with dramaturgs, actors, designers, and language consultants to crack open four scripts through bespoke dramaturgical processes. Barbara Adler, Tai Amy Grauman, Robert Hamilton and Yvonne Wallace are exploring the content as well as the processes they…
We are delighted to announce that, once again, the number of playwrights submitting to Block A – PTC’s popular program for emerging writers – has exceeded our expectations, so four sessions are being convened, two in the fall and two in winter. The fall 2018 cohort has six writers who…
PTC is pleased to welcome Jiv Parasram as guest dramaturg for the 2018 WrightSpace residency. Each year we bring a new guest dramaturg into the fold to enrich the company’s dramaturgical perspectives and offer our writers the most interesting and dynamic theatrical collaborators possible. Jiv is no stranger to PTC-developed…
PTC is happy to announce the stellar group of participants in this year’s Block SAT.
Set yourself up for a successful summer. These workshops will help hone your skills and move you deeper into your process. Whether you are an actor, producer, playwright, or all three, there’s a Studio workshop that will inspire you, engage you, and give you some practical skills to move your…
SECRET LOCATION…. In the ’80s in Poland under Martial Law, people gathered in secret in basements and school gyms, gaining entrance with a bottle of vodka and a password whispered to the janitor. To join us for Veronique West’s “Unscripted: Where the Devil Can’t Go”, you won’t need to bring vodka, just meet us at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St.) this Thursday, May 3. The password is “DEVIL”.
We are pleased to announce the participants in this year’s Block P (Producing): Diana Bang, Kris Fleerackers, Matthew Horrigan, Ian Kent, Lenore Rowntree, Maria Zarrillo, and our Fringe New Play Prize winners, Anais West and Sara Vickruck.
Join us for readings of new works by MSG Lab playwrights Gary Mok, Yumi Ogawa and Sangeeta Wylie. PTC Test Kitchen Feb. 22-24, 2018. FREE.
PTC Presents Unscripted: Salesman in China, a border-crossing time-travelling community event. Performances, talks, food and images bring Beijing, 1983 and Vancouver, 2018 into relationship through Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman. How do we translate language and cultural differences? How do we bridge the gap between generations? PTC Associates Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy welcome you into the world of their new play.
For two months in 1983, two of the world’s great artists struggled to bridge the abyss between two of the world’s great cultures. UNSCRIPTED: Salesman in China is a border-crossing time-travelling community event that unearths their incredible story.
Find out who is participating in the 2017-18 MSG Lab, VACT’s annual new play development program in association with PTC. Facilitating the creation and development of new theatrical work by emerging and mid-career Asian Canadian artists, this program is VACT’s commitment to the next generation of Asian Canadian theatre makers. The MSG Lab showcases stories from the Asian Canadian points of view, and develops new Asian Canadian work to a professional level for future production opportunities.
PTC and the Vancouver Fringe Festival are pleased to announce that the team comprised of Anais West and Sara Vickruck is the winner of the 2018 Fringe New Play Prize for “Poly Queer Love Ballad”. The Prize includes a free Mainstage spot at the 2018 Vancouver Fringe, the design and execution of a development process for the play with PTC’s Project Dramaturg Joanna Garfinkel, and a free spot in PTC’s how-to-produce-theatre seminar series, Block P.
We’re thrilled to bring Anjela Magpantay on board as Producing Intern for 2017-18.
This year’s WrightSpace (Dec. 6-16, 2017) brings four writers together with dramaturgs, actors, designers, and cultural consultants to crack open four scripts through bespoke dramaturgical processes. Tania Carter, Joseph Dandurand, and Taran Kootenhayoo are all from the greater Vancouver area, while Frances Koncan will come in from Winnipeg. This year,…
This year, we are delighted to announce that the number of playwrights submitting to Block A, PTC’s popular program for emerging writers, has exceeded the capacity by 500% so four sessions are being convened, two in the fall and two in winter. Check out our cohorts and find out who is the recipient of The Virago Play Series scholarship.
Setting Bones, winner of the Fringe New Play Prize 2017, premieres at the Vancouver Fringe Festival Sept. 9 -17, 2017.
The Virago Play Series is offering a bursary to support a female or femme identified playwright who is accepted to one of PTC’s two cohorts for Block A in the coming season.
The Fringe New Play Prize work-in-progress (Untitled) Boxes has undergone many transformations in the last few months, including a new title. Read about the playwrights’ progress.
We are pleased to announce the participants in this year’s Block P (Producing): lee williams boudakian, Moses Clyde Caliboso, Rachael Goddard-Rebstein, Peg Keenleyside, Jessica Leung, Ariel Martz-Oberlander and Anoushka Ratnarajah. Over the next six weeks these five artists will be learning the ins and outs of indie producing with UpintheAir Theatre’s Daniel Martin and Dave Mott. Read their bios…
PTC is pleased to announce that we have chosen five playwrights as PTC Associates 2017 – 20. We will work on their new plays over the course of the next three years.
PTC and the Vancouver Fringe Festival are pleased to announce that the team comprised of lee williams boudakian, Anoushka Ratnarajah and Kamee Abrahamian is the winner of the 2017 Fringe New Play Prize for (Untitled) Boxes. The Prize includes a free Mainstage spot at the 2017 Vancouver Fringe, the design and execution of a development process for the play with PTC’s Associate Dramaturg mia amir and production mentoring from PTC.
PTC Holiday Hours:
Please note that PTC will be closed for the holidays on December 22, 2016 and will reopen on January 3, 2017.
Join us for a conversation of how theatre contributes to the fabric of Vancouver’s Chinatown – where food and language intersect on Coast Salish territory. Come at 6:30pm for the DUMPLING CHALLENGE! Stay for readings in English and Cantonese from Jovanni Sy’s play A Taste of Empire/食盡天下, translated into Cantonese by Derek Chan. With Bob Sung, Jovanni Sy, Derek Chan and Andrea Yu.
This year’s Writers’ Colony (Dec. 6-16, 2016) brings four writers together with dramaturgs, actors, designers, and cultural consultants to crack open four scripts through bespoke dramaturgical processes. Peter Anderson (Vancouver), Sunny Drake (Toronto), Debbie Patterson (Winnipeg), and José Teodoro (Toronto) will spend ten days together to move their work to the next stage.
Announcing the participants in the 2016-17 Block A, PTC’s popular program for emerging writers.
Theatre and new technologies with Mallory Catlett February 1, 2016, 6 – 10pm PTC Test Kitchen (#202 – 739 Gore Ave., Vancouver) Register via the PuSh Festival website AED Heidi Taylor had a chance to see a workshop production of Decoder 2017 in New York in June, and is excited…