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:

Steven Elliott Jackson is the award-winning playwright of The Seat Next To The King (2017 Toronto Fringe Best New Play and published by Scirocco Drama) and Three Ordinary Men (2020 Hamilton Fringe Best New Play, 5-time Dora nominated 2022 production by Cahoots Theatre ). In 2023, A Stage Of Her Own, a play about Nellie McClung and E. Pauline Johnson premiered in Brandon, Manitoba, The Funeral To End All Funerals premiered at KWLT and his first immersive show, The Will Of A Woman, premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Steven is currently developing Poppies For Bukkan for Green Light Arts in Kitchener and is developing two other shows, The Walls We Build and Imitation Pearl for workshopping in 2024 while premiering Butterflies in Buffalo, NY next year.

Sbuja Dywili is a published playwright, as well as an award-winning performer who has been seen both on screen and stage. His 2021 play Ganga Nyoko! Inzima Nyoko published by Junkets Press and in which he performed, won the Zabalaza Festivals; Best Production, Best Actor and was nominated for three Fleur du Cap Awards, winning Best New Director. His screen credits include The Whale Caller, Moffie, Inkaba, Jabu, Poppie Nongena, and Grobber Freund, Kleiner Junge. Sbuja performed in Tsotsi the Musical as well as Comfort Ye and Buzani ku Bawo. In 2021, he was invited by Lara Foot of Baxter Theatre, to be under the Masambe Writing Residency, where he was supported both financially and with resources to write his second play titled – Ngxi! under the careful eye of Lara Foot, Nwabisa Plaatjie, and other selected playwrights. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Filmmaking, in which he majored in Directing, Screenwriting and Producing. Sbuja had the distinct privilege of being taught Musical Writing by the legendary David Kramer at Baxter Theatre. He graduated from a series of Filmmaking Workshops hosted by Tomas Films, from which he co-wrote and directed a short film shot on a cell phone and garnered praise from the Tomas Films Producers/Makers. In 2022, Sbuja received raving reviews for his performance in Dr. Siphiwo Mahala’s one man show, House of Truth, for which Sbuja was nominated in the 58th Fleur du Cap Awards as a Best Actor in a One Man Show.

Our partner for this session is Theatre Arts. Learn more about them here.