CBI 24/25 Session – Vern Thiessen & Laurie Motherwell

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CBI 24/25 Session – Vern Thiessen & Laurie Motherwell

February 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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:

Vern ThiessenVern Thiessen is one of Canada’s most produced playwrights. His plays have been seen across Canada, the UK, United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia and been translated in five languages. His works include Of Human Bondage, Vimy, Einstein’s Gift (GG winner), Lenin’s Embalmers (GG finalist), Apple, and Shakespeare’s Will. He has been produced off-Broadway five times. Vern is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dora and Sterling awards for Outstanding New Play, The Carol Bolt Award, the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award, the City of Edmonton Arts Achievement Award, the University of Alberta Alumni Award of Excellence, The Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Canada’s highest honour for a playwright. 

Laurie Motherwell – Laurie Motherwell is a Glaswegian playwright. In 2024 his play Roost was performed as part of A Play, Pie and a Pint. In April 2023 his play Sean and Daro Flake it ’Til They Make It premiered at the Traverse Theatre, before being performed again during the Edinburgh Fringe. In the same year Laurie was the Tron Theatre Resident Writer where he developed a new play The Grand Sun Shines Eternal. He has developed work with other organisations such as the National Theatre of Scotland, An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, and Paisley Book Festival. He has previously been a recipient of a MGC Futures Bursary, and in 2019 he was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award from the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. 

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February 19
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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