PROGRAMS, DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, & JOBS

BOCA DEL LUPO SLAM RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Boca del Lupo invites artists and companies to apply for our SLaM Space Residency Program, which provides free space and support for the creation and development of new artistic work including theatre, dance, puppetry, design workshops, audio installations, etc. Established and emerging artists are welcome to apply and past applicants are also encouraged to re-apply. Learn how to apply here.
DEADLINE: February 10, 2025

CAMINOS 2025
CAMINOS is an important platform for works-in-progress from the Latinx and other racialized and equity seeking artists who are changing the old narratives of what theatre should be. The festival invites these game changers to try out their ideas in front of an audience and a supportive community of peers. CAMINOS curation includes theatre, dance, performance, interdisciplinary creations, and visual arts projects such as installations and photography. Learn more here.
DEADLINE: February 17, 2025

DIRECTORS LAB NORTH
Directors Lab North is accepting submissions from professional directors to participate in the 15th year of the Lab. We are looking for practicing directors with hands-on experience to join us for a week of workshops, masterclasses, guest artist sessions and discussions. The Lab is by application and only 25 applicants are admitted. Apply here.
DEADLINE: February 18, 2025

VACT CREATION LAB
We at vAct are excited to announce the 2025 open call for our Creation Lab — a program dedicated to fostering the development of new theatrical works by emerging and mid-career Asian Canadian artists. The vAct Creation Lab focuses on the creative process, not the final product. We are looking for artists who are passionate about exploration, experimentation, and the discovery of their unique artistic voices. Participants will receive tailored developmental support to propel their projects from initial drafts to more fully realized versions, culminating in a work-in-progress presentation for the community. Learn more here.
DEADLINE: February 21, 2025

PWM 2025 GLASSCO TRANSLATION RESIDENCY
The Glassco Translation Residency offers a unique opportunity for playwrights and translators working in any language to delve into the complexities of theatre translation, to bring new translations to life. Translators and playwrights apply together to work on a specific project during the residency. Over the course of the 10 days, participants live together at Fletcher Cottage in Tadoussac to develop the translations. Translations from and into any language are accepted. Work is done independently by each playwright-translator pair, and with the support of acclaimed Translation Dramaturg, Maryse Warda. Learn more here.
DEADLINE: February 21, 2025

PACIFIC CONTACT 2025 SHOWCASE APPLICATIONS
Each year performing artists and their representatives apply to showcase at Pacific Contact, BC Live’s annual showcase conference for the performing arts. There will be 27 x 15-minute showcases, including 6 Family Showcases featuring a variety of genres. Pacific Contact also features Pitch & Performs, 5-minute showcasing and pitch opportunities. Learn more here.
DEADLINE: February 28, 2025

LANGLEY LITTLE THEATRE PLAYSTORM FESTIVAL
Are you an amateur playwright with a new script looking for an opportunity to showcase it to the world? We are calling for submissions for our summer festival, Playstorm, in July 2025. We’re seeking one-act plays with a running time between 45-90 minutes with minimal set and tech requirements to be presented in a 10 day festival hosted by the Langley Little Theatre. Your show would be offered a minimum of four performances and 70% of ticket proceeds. Plays selected for the festival will be subject to a facilities fee of $150. For more information and to apply, contact playstorm@langleylittletheatre.org.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2025

STAND FESTIVAL 2025
The STAND Festival (Strength Through Art Network Diversity) celebrates immigrant and refugee artists. It showcases powerful stories through theatre, dance, music, and visual arts and creates a platform for diverse voices, fostering connection and cultural understanding. We welcome submissions from immigrant and refugee artists to showcase their talents in theatre, music, dance, art exhibitions, and live interactive performances. To Apply: https://www.standfestival.com/.
DEADLINE: March 15, 2025


AWARDS, COMPETITIONS, & GRANTS

THE NATIONAL CREATION FUND
The National Arts Centre‘s fund is a catalyst for Canadian artists to take their projects to a new level.  It provides the additional time and resources that bold, ambitious projects need to be successful on the national and international stage. The fund will invest up to $3 million a year in the development of 15 to 20 new Canadian works in theatre. Application form here.

CANADA COUNCIL DEADLINE EXTENSIONS
Canada Council for the Arts has been working to establish relief for artists in need and the application deadline for some of their programs has been extended. The new deadlines and application information can be found here.


FESTIVALS & EVENTS

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 23 – February 9, 2025
https://pushfestival.ca/
Industry Week – January 28 – February 2, 2025
https://pushfestival.ca/industry/


CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NANCY JEAN ROSS, M.F.A.
Join a supportive workshop to explore writing styles, spark creativity with prompts, and dive into free-writing exercises. Running Sundays, January 19 – March 9 (no class Feb 9 & 16) at the Roundhouse Community Centre. 6 sessions for $95 or $20 for drop-in. Sign up here.


RESIDENCIES & RETREATS

SATORI ARTIST RETREAT
Satori Artist Retreat is a quiet place to create. On Panmure Island, PE, you can breathe and reconnect with your creative self. Contact panmuresatori@gmail.com or sharonrobso@yahoo.com for more information.


SEND A PLAY

SUBMISSIONS FOR PTC’S DRAMATURGICAL READING PROGRAM ARE OPEN!
Do you want trained, appropriate feedback for your work? Our dramaturgs are here to provide meaningful recommendations and help you get to the next phase with your work. Submit your work here.

READ MY PLAY
A free Script Exchange Service for Playwrights.
readmyplay.com


FOR IBPOC ARTISTS

CULTUREBREW.ART OPPORTUNITY POSTING REQUEST FORM
Anyone wanting to reach the hundreds of Indigenous and racialized artists can simply fill out CultureBrew.Art’s Opportunity Posting Request webform, and make a donation to Visceral Visions in support of this service (suggested amount: $25).

CBA’s Opportunity Posting Request form is flexible to include a range of opportunities, from calls for artists, job positions in the arts and cultural sector, awards and funding, professional development, and more! You also have the option of specifying whether you seek artists from a particular racial or ethnic background, are open to all IBPOC artists (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) applying, or indicating that the opportunity is open to all regardless of colour.

Artists will be able to search opportunities by artistic discipline, location (province or territory), or type of opportunity. The option for you to upload your company logo will offer the opportunity to attract more artists to your listing.

If you have feedback or questions about CultureBrew.Art’s Opportunities Feature, email community@culturebrew.art.


ONGOING CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES

BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP
Black Theatre Workshop is always on on the lookout for new works. BTW’s mission is to promote and produce outstanding theatre that educates, entertains and inspires. The company strives to create greater cross-cultural understanding by challenging its audience and the status quo. Expanding the representation of Black Canadian artists, BTW bridges cultural divides – uniting hearts, minds and communities.
blacktheatreworkshop.ca

RISER PROJECT
The RISER Project is a collaborative producing model for theatre artists and companies to create and present new work. It was developed by Why Not Theatre in 2013 in order to address some of the challenges of producing independent theatre, and to provide more opportunity for artists to take on risks in producing their work. riserproject.org

#cdnopening- CELEBRATE YOUR OPENING NIGHT ONLINE
Canadian theatre companies celebrate Opening Night hundreds, possibly even thousands, of times per year. Spiderwebshow.ca wants to unite opening night celebrations coast-to-coast-to-coast and more than anything, they want to connect our theatre communities that are doing great work – and having great parties – nationwide. Help us by posting your opening night celebrations on Instagram with #cdnopening.  Your theatre, your production and your work will appear alongside theatres from across the country on the Spiderwebshow.ca Instagram feed, one click away from fellow opening night revellers from Victoria to Iqaluit to St. John’s.

CHAMELEON THEATRE COMPANY
Chameleon Theatre Company welcomes new work by women
chameleontheatrephilly.com

DANCING SKY THEATRE
Dancing Sky Theatre accepts unsolicited manuscripts of full-length and original plays.
dancingskytheatre.com

THE CRIPSTERS
The Cripsters is a monthly Akimblog feature on disability and culture from the point of view of people with disabilities.They are looking for submissions of 750-1000 words on topics that intersect with art and disability through a social justice lens and that crip/disrupt the way we think about disability. Submissions can take the form of a critical review, an interview, or an article on artistic/curatorial processes, theory and ideas, commentary, community, etc. A writer’s fee is paid.
akimbo.ca

THE 50 PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT
The 50 Playwrights Project is a digital resource for Latin@ theatre and a virtual home for the voices of Latin@ playwrights and other Teatro allies, created by Dr. Trevor Boffone. The 50 Playwrights Project is engaged in providing accessible information about contemporary Latin@ theatre artists. This project serves as a dramaturgical and pedagogical database for artists, educators, scholars, and students who are looking for more online information about playwrights: where are they from, how do they identify, what are they working on, what advice would they give to aspiring artists, and links to relevant online resources. More info at 50playwrights.org.

GREAT CANADIAN THEATRE COMPANY
Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) produces a subscription season of six full-length plays in English for adult audiences.
gctc.ca

INTERMISSION MAGAZINE
Intermission publishes artist perspectives, original journalism, spotlight profiles, original drama, and audio and video content. Intermission is expanding their content to include publishing short original drama. They now accept excerpts of longer plays as well as short plays. Their focus is on high quality writing (in the vein of The New Yorker or McSweeney’s, if they featured Canadian theatre writing) They’re looking to hear from Canadians—both established playwrights and new, original voices.
intermissionmagazine.ca

LADY PLAYS PODCAST
The online literary journal Lady Plays Podcast, a monthly podcast dramatizing new plays by women, is accepting submissions for future podcast episodes. Each episode will consist of a “staged” reading of the play and an optional interview with the playwright. Submission Guidelines: Plays that will easily translate to a “radio” medium and that feature 5 characters or less will take priority. Plays of all length and style will be considered, writers may submit more than one script.
greenroomblog.com

MIXED BLOOD THEATRE
Mixed Blood Theatre welcomes submissions of contemporary plays that pursue and realize the company’s mission and aesthetic. Mixed Blood uses theatre to address pluralism, usually manifest in race, culture, language, disability, gender, nationality, affectional orientation, and political worldview. Predictably unpredictable, the theatre particularly invites polyglot plays, scripts from the global stage, and work that advances the art form.
mixedblood.com.

METRO OPEN CALL FOR PLAY & PLAYWRIGHTING SUBMISSIONSMetro encourages all playwrights to submit their work for consideration. Read more about what Metro is looking for and how to apply here.

NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
Submit your theatre project proposal to The National Arts Centre.
nac-cna.ca

NATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS
Submit a script to Native Earth Performing Arts. 
nativeearth.ca

PLAYCONNECT
Launched in April 2017, PlayConnect is Playwrights Guild of Canada’s revamped version of the Canada Council Readings Program. It connects playwrights with communities and new audiences by providing an opportunity for travel funding, promotion, and professional development. As a network liaison, PGC ensures that the program is accessible and inclusive of a wide-ranging group of artists and audiences.
playwrightsguild.ca

PGC STAGE READY SCRIPTS AND COPYSCRIPTS PROGRAMS
The Stage Ready Scripts program is for plays which have not yet had a professional production but are ready for the stage. Entering your script into the Stage Ready Program promotes your play to theatre companies, schools, and individuals internationally and may lead to a production. You must be a member of PGC to take advantage of The Stage Ready program. Questions? Contact them at orders@playwrightsguild.ca. PGC also has the Copyscript program for plays that have been produced, but aren’t yet published. The program exists to distribute professionally produced, unpublished plays by full members of PGC. *Only plays that have received a professional production are eligible for the copyscript program. Check out PGC’s services here.

PLAYME CBC PODCAST
Submit plays or short stories to Playme Podcast for a unique opportunity to produce your work in podcast format.
playmepodcast.com

PLEDGE PROJECT
The Pledge Project is searchable database of large cast plays (6 characters or more) written by Canadian women. Enroll your play or find a show today.
pledgeproject.ca

THE PURPLE ROSE
Submit a script to the Purple Rose Theatre Company – dedicated to the development and production of new plays and emerging playwrights.
purplerosetheatre.org

RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
The Resource Centre for the Arts wants to present your play.
rca.nf.ca

STUDIO 180 THEATRE
In keeping with Studio 180’s mandate to produce socially relevant theatre that provokes public discourse and promotes community engagement, they are interested in material that engages audiences intellectually and emotionally, and encourages dialogue and action even after the curtain falls. Their Core Artistic Team is most interested in works that tackle politically and ideologically challenging issues using a non-prescriptive approach. Interested artists should submit an outline of their play, including a description of its production history and/or stage of development (maximum two pages). Please do not submit a complete script unless requested to do so.
studio180theatre.com

SUBLETSERIES: CO-OP
The SubletSeries@HERE Program supports 250 guest independent artists and groups and their audiences each season. This creative, curated rental program has allowed many upstart companies and emerging artists to realize their full artistic vision on a small budget.
here.org

TEESRI DUNIYA THEATRE
Teesri Duniya Theatre seeks culturally diverse and First Nation plays that are politically relevant examining meaningful social and cultural questions, exploring diverse worldviews and historical events that affect our lives and our socio-cultural heritage.
teesriduniyatheatre.com

THEATRE NEW BRUNSWICK
Theatre New Brunswick invites playwrights to submit scripts for future consideration for both Main Stage and Studio Theatre productions.
tnb.nb.ca

THEATRE TIMES
Theatre Times
is a rapidly expanding global theatre portal. If you’re passionate about world theatre, consider joining their team as Regional Editors, Managing Editors, Bloggers, or Editorial Assistants.
thetheatretimes.com

THEATRE ART LIFE
Love to write or have something to say? Become a contributor to Theatre Art Life!
theatreartlife.com

URBANSTAGES
Submit a play to Urban Stages.
urbanstages.org

WOMEN ARTS BLOG
Do you have an idea for an article you would like to write for the Women Arts Blog?
womenarts.org

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE
Submit a script for developmental support with Young People’s Theatre.
youngpeoplestheatre.org