Last night, the winners of the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award for Playwrights, New Comedy Award and New Musical Award were announced, at the inaugural Tom Hendry Awards ceremony at Stage West in Mississauga.
CAROL BOLT AWARD WINNER - DON HANNAH
Presented for the best work premiered by a PGC-member in the past year, the 2012 Carol Bolt Award was bestowed on Don Hannah for The Cave Painter. Jury: ...
Special PGC Award Issue of CanRevue, Playwrights Guild of Canada’s bi-monthly e-catalogue of unpublished Canadian plays, is now available for download.
OK, here is how they treat women playwrights in Sweden. The City of Stockholm hosts a gala reception in a glittering, gold-tiled room at City Hall, the same venue where the Nobel Laureates are fêted every year. They pour us fine wine and lay out a smorgasbord as long as a city block. They make speeches about how important the work is that we are doing. And they make 260 women playwrights from over 50 countries feel very, very special. But although we are united in our task of playwriting,...
Playwrights Guild of Canada caught up with Post-Secondary winner Leah Jane Esau and Runner-up Maureen Gualtieri to discuss their winning works, their working methods and what they both plan to do with the prize money!
1. Give a brief summary of your play and explain what prompted you to write about this theme.
Leah Jane Esau: Disappeared is about people who are missing / absent...
The Canada Council for the Arts has just released the short list for the 2012 Governor General's Drama Awards, and PGC can claim dominance with no less than 5 of the 6 Finalists!
Catherine Banks from Nova Scotia is nominated for her drama It is Solved by Walking. Vancouver's ...
