Congratulations go out to outgoing PTC Associate José Teodoro who’s play, Island, has been awarded the 2024 Lee Playwriting Prize for New Canadian Plays.

Selection committee chair Kathleen Weiss had the following to say about the winning piece:

“The jury responded to Island so strongly because of its mystery and beauty. It is a piece of great complexity with characters who live in the future and the present — characters who live in the present and the past but who, as José says, ‘live in their respective time and space, but are also here, with us, and with each other, in our time and our space . . .’ A mere three characters embody a startling range of human experience and are ultimately deeply compassionate despite their innate flaws. The action resides in a series of shifting realities and the language of the play is brutal, lyrical, and true.”

To learn more about the prize, visit the U of A Drama Department website HERE.

José has been working with PTC the past three years (2021-2024) on Binary Star.