CBI 24/25 Session – Laurie Dumont-Bal & Venise Tolentino Buenaflor

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CBI 24/25 Session – Laurie Dumont-Bal & Venise Tolentino Buenaflor
February 12 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am

PGC members have been paired up with an international playwright to share their work and discuss the craft of playwriting with one another. You can tune into these live events and get a glimpse of what these theatre creators have been up to!
Craft Bites International is open and free to the public.
Please note registration is required one hour prior to each session.
Register HERE.
About the Playwrights:
Laurie Dumont-Bal – Laurie Dumont-Bal is a Montreal-based biracial theatre artist with Indian and French-Canadian settler origins. She works as a playwright, director, playback theatre performer and theatre teacher. Recently, she worked as a playwright for “Something Will Survive/Quelque Chose Survivra”, a bilingual verbatim theatre play on climate change created by a team at Imago Theatre in collaboration with wâhkôhtowin Project. Since 2023, Laurie’s play “Here” has received support from the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Mentorship Program, Imago Theatre’s Nested Circles Residency and Teesri Duniya’s Fireworks Playwriting Development Program. In April 2024, Laurie directed a staged public reading for “Here”. Laurie has directed more than ten musicals at the Segal Centre Academy, where she also worked as the lead book writer for three original musicals named “Silent Knight”, “Our First Day” and “Magic All Around Us”.
Venise Tolentino Buenaflor – Venise Buenaflor finished Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Arts in Psychology at the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod. She is a Registered Psychometrician and has been in the field of education for 4 years teaching art and psychology-related subjects. She is currently the program consultant of The Negros Museum doing curriculum design and implementation of special educational programs for students. Aside from her professional work, she is also a board member of the Performance Laboratory Inc., a theatre artist for 10 years, involved in the field of acting, playwriting, and directing. She directed various short plays and portrayed lead and supporting roles in several local plays and made her first acting debut on the CCP Stage as part of the CCP’s Virgin Labfest Main Festival of Plays where she performed a monologue titled “Wala nang Bata Dito” by Sari Saysay. Some of her original plays were featured during the Staged Readings in CCP under the Women Playwrights International and chosen as one of the Top 10 fellows in the VLF Writing Fellowship Program 14 under the mentorship of Glenn Sevilla Mas. Significantly her works made its way to different platforms such as “Dorm 425” which was accepted as one of the entries at VLF Visayas and “Tuhoy” which was invited to the writer’s playroom in WPI Montreal 2021.