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.

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About the Playwrights:

Carly Anna Billings is an Italian and Ojibwe actor, playwright, singer, comedian and storyteller born and based in her favourite city, Hamilton, ON, on the traditional lands of her people the Mississaugas of the Credit. Her theatre career has taken her to live audiences from Charlottetown to Edmonton to New York City and back again. In 2024 she was honoured to attend the National Playwrights Retreat at Caravan Farm Theatre. She holds an Honours BA from the University of Ottawa in Theatre (Acting-French Immersion) and has studied comedy at the Second City Toronto and Caroline’s Comedy in NYC. Her critically acclaimed solo show exploring her cultural identities, Meat(less) Loaf, was the first live show produced by her bi-city theatre company Afterlife Theatre whose latest work Uninvited Guests is in development. She believes laughter and joy are the foundation for a healthy and creative arts practice, they’re the best medicine.

Liza Magtoto is a playwright and freelance scriptwriter, a member of The Writer’s Bloc and an artist-teacher of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). Recent works include Rak of Aegis, / (slash), Rated PG, A Game of Trolls and Care Divas. She collaborated with RADA artistic director Nona Shepphard for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Reimagined performed in PETA.  As of this writing she and other PETA artists are collaborating with Mecklenburgische Staatstheater on the subject of care crisis and overseas care workers.

Her written work for theatre ranges from ten-minute plays to one-act plays, as well as full-length plays and musicals. She has done original plays, translations and adaptations, with topics that cover violence against women, reproductive health, martial law, migration, history, trafficking of children, gender dynamics and relationships, sexually transmitted infections, the environment, among others.

She also wrote Cinemalaya films Santa Niña, and David F. as well as educational TV shows like Sineskwela, comedy series like the Filipino version of the French-produced Camera Cafe and episodes for various drama anthologies for Philippine television.

A recipient of Gawad Buhay! (an award given by Philstage, an alliance of Filipino theater companies) and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Francisco Balagtas (a lifetime achievement award given by UMPIL or Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas, or the Writers’ Union of the Philippines), Liza also won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Three of her award-winning plays are published in Bienvenida de Soltera, an anthology of her earlier works.

Our partners for this session are Women Playwrights International Philippines (WPIP) and International Playwrights’ Forum Philippines (IPFP). Learn more about them here.