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.

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About the Playwrights:

Sean Dixon was a founding member of the Winnipeg theatre collective PRIMUS, (writing narrative scaffolding for Dog Day, Alkoremmi, and The Night Room), had a long-running Toronto hit in 1995 (The Painting), won the audience award at the 1999 Vancouver Fringe (Billy Nothin’), adapted one of his plays into a novel (The Girls Who Saw Everything) that was named a Quill&Quire book of the year in 2007, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General’s Award for playwriting (A God In Need of Help). Recently, he developed a tonal language for a play about barriers of communication between humans and neanderthals (Orphan Song).

Jim C. Raborar of Apat sa Taglamig Theater Production.

A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management major in Hotels and Resorts Operations at The Philippine Women’s College of Davao. A former actor/director of the PWC Teatro Dabawenyo. Former Instructor of Notre Dame of Marbel University teaching Home Economics and Practical Arts under College of Education and HRM subjects under College of Business Administration. At present he is the Dormitory Manager II of the Agricultural Training Institute Region XII. Jim is a member of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts-Committee on Dramatic Arts. He is the Artistic Director and Playwright of Apat sa Taglamig Theater Production, a registered community theater based in the City of Koronadal province of South Cotabato.

Jim had been a fellow to the 22nd Iligan National Writers Workshop and the 3rd Sulat Dula playwriting workshop. In 2012 he was once a fellow to the very first Mindanao Directors Workshop. With his various workshops under NCCA projects and the Cultural Center of the Philippines he developed and honed his theater group. Annually he benchmarks his members to the annual Virgin Lab Fest in Manila. His play BULAN was staged at the very first Extra Virgin Labfest of the Cultural Center of the Philippies in Cagayan de Oro City last 2019, and was restaged thru online at the annual Virgin Lapfest in Manila.

A former active officer of the Provincial Tourism Council of South Cotabato. He ventures theater as a subject offerings to the Thailand Summer Immersion Workshop in SOCCSKSARGEN. He’s been directing one-act plays for six years now at the Incheon Bilingual Theater Festival in Incheon, South Korea. He also mentors Basic Theater and Playwriting Workshop during summer under the Summer Workshop of the LGU City of Koronadal. This year, his group is celebrating its 21st anniversary.

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