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:

Djanet Sears is a playwright, director, and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Her work has graced such stages as the National Arts Centre, Mirvish Productions, Tarragon Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop, Centaur Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, the Public Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Crossroads Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Grand Theatre, St. Louis Black Repertory, Canadian Stage, and Factory Theatre. Her best-known plays, Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, have been widely published. She has been awarded several honours including a Governor General’s Literary Award, an Honorary Doctorate, a Canadian Screenwriting Award, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, Golden & Ruth Harris Prize, and a Gold Prize at the International Radio Festival of New York. She is a founding member of the Obsidian Theatre Company, and the editor of two anthologies: Testifyin’: Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vols. I & II. 

Vuyelwa Maluleke is a Writer, Theatre practitioner and Performance Poet who holds an MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes University; as well as a BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. Maluleke describes her works as post-colonial transcriptions of race, gender and black social life in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Author of the poetry chapbook Things We Lost in the fire, her Manuscript The Blue Album was shortlisted in 2021 for The Sillerman First Book prize’. Maluleke is widely published in publications such as The Boston Annual Review, The Rialto, New Coin South African Poetry Journal and Guernica Magazine. 

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