*Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Mohammad Yaghoubi, a playwright, director, screenwriter, theatre instructor, Co-founder, and co-artistic director of Toronto-based NOWADAYS THEATRE company. His plays have been translated and produced in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Mishka Lavigne, a playwright, screenwriter and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Australia, Haiti and the United States. Her…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho), a Toronto-based theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong. Acting credits: Orestes (Tarragon Theatre), trace (Remount — NAC/Factory Theatre), Ophelia in Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Sangeeta Wylie, an emerging playwright and actor in film, television and theatre. Her first full-length play, we the same, is inspired a true story of Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s…
*Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Gabe Maharjan, a multi-disciplinary performance creator born and raised in Tio’tià:ke/Montréal.
They were shortlisted for the 2020 PGC Emerging Playwright Award for their script, Eva in Rio, and they recently…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Julie Phan (潘家雯), an emerging playwright in Ontario. If Julie Phan (潘家雯) was a piece of art, she would be the sponmonkey ads for Quiznos subs. She is a Hoklo-Vietnamese…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Rajnish Dhawan, a Professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley and an award-winning writer who writes in multiple languages and genres.
Since moving to Canada from India…
**Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Valerie Sing Turner, the founding Artistic Producer of Visceral Visions, founder|Creative Director of CultureBrew.Art, and an acknowledged leader on issues of diversity and decolonization in the Canadian arts sector. A…
*Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, aka Belladonna the Blest, an emcee, playwright and agitator. Her main body of work, the 54ology, includes: Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome’s…
*Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Debbie Patterson, a Winnipeg playwright, director and actor. Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, she is a founding member of Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR), served as Theatre…
