Playwrights Guild of Canada and Nordic Drama Corner are excited to present the first IN-PERSON Craft Bites!
Join Rose Napoli (Canada) and Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson (Iceland) for play readings and a creative conversation around playwrighting.
WHEN: April 11, 2025 @ 2:00pm ET
WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall (1st Floor)
Free to attend, no registration required!
About the Playwrights ~
Rose Napoli is an actor, screenwriter, and playwright. Her plays include Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Mad Madge (recently seen at Nightwood Theatre) and the upcoming After the Rain (Musical Stage Company/Tarragon). Her musical adaptation of Mavis Gallant’s The Carrette Sisters with composer Suzy Wilde was nominated for the Dora for Outstanding New Musical (as part of Musical Stage Company’s RETOLD series). Onstage, she most recently played in Michael Healey’s The Master Plan (Crows/Aquarius/Soulpepper) the title character in Kat Sandler’s Wildwoman (Soulpepper). Onscreen, she has developed television shows with CBC, Bell/Crave, Cameron Pictures, Shaftesbury, and Circle Blue Entertainment. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, where she now teaches.
Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson is an award-winning Icelandic playwright whose works have been performed in Iceland, Europe, and North America, including Théâtre de Quat’Sous in Montreal. Tyrfingur studied at the Iceland University of the Arts, Janáček Academy in Brno, Czech Republic, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Tyrfingur’s breakthrough came with his graduation piece, Grande (2011), which earned him recognition in Reykjavík and a nomination for the Icelandic Performing Arts Awards (Gríman). His latest work, Lúna (English title: The Beauty Show) was named one of the fifteen most interesting contemporary plays in the world by an international committee under Theater Info in Helsinki and will be featured in the upcoming edition of Playwrighting with Purpose, published by Routledge. Tyrfingur’s plays have been translated into German, Polish, French, English, Finnish, Italian, and Dutch, and published in book form in several countries. A three-time Gríman winner, Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson is a leading voice in contemporary theatre.
About our Presenting Partner ~
Nordic Drama Corner is the largest drama agency in Finland, Nordic Drama Corner represents many leading Finnish playwrights and novelists and film writers, and constantly strengthens its strong international profile. While representing Finnish dramaturges and playwrights, they carry a broad selection of titles by major dramatists worldwide. They work closely with the entire theatre industry in Finland and actively cultivate their extensive international network, based on their long-standing presence in the field. Nordic Drama Corner’s earliest roots go back to the 1920s, when two Finnish theatre organizations, The Association of Finnish Theatres and the Association for Amateur and Professional Theatres founded their own theatrical agencies. In 1993, these two organizations combined their agency services, and thus Nordic Drama Corner was formed. In 2002, the agency was re-established as a limited company; theatre organizations still owning the company.
