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:

Conni Massing is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film and television. Her playwriting credits include Dead Letter, Matara and The Invention of Romance, premiered by Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, Oh! Christmas Tree (Roxy Performance Series), Fresh Hell (Shadow Theatre), and her widely-produced stage adaptations of W.O Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid and Bruce Allen Powe’s The Aberhart Summer. Published work includes seven plays and a comic memoir, Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals (Brindle and Glass Publishing). Her writing has been recognized by AMPIA, the Academy of Cinema and Television, the Betty Mitchell Awards, the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards. Conni recently received an Alumni Honour Award from the University of Alberta, recognizing her contributions to her profession and the community.

Birutė Kapustinskaitė is a screenwriter, director, and playwright. In 2018 and 2025, she was honoured with the National Golden Cross Award for Best Playwright for her plays Therapies and Stand up for Meaning and Meaninglessness. The most exceptional feature of the artist’s works is the vivid characters and the remarkable dialogues, immersive in their natural lightness and tragicomedy. She has written screenplays for several feature films and TV series, and her plays have been translated into various languages and performed internationally. 

Kapustinskaitė’s debut play Terapijos (Therapies) is her most memorable work, which gave a strong start to her career in theatre. It was staged at the Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (dir. K. Glušajev) in 2017. Later, the play was staged at the Dream Theatre in Seoul, South Korea (dir. Insoo Lee) and translated into various languages since. 

Kapustinskaitė’s short film Mothers and The Nominees have been selected for over fifty film festivals worldwide and received multiple awards. 

She is actively working across film, theatre, and interdisciplinary projects as both a writer and director. Since 2023, she is the Head of the Screenwriting Department at the Lithuanian National Film School. 

Our partners for this session are Nordic Drama Corner and Theatre Information Centre. Learn more about them here.