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:

Sara Graefe is a Vancouver-based playwright and dramaturge. She is a three-time winner of the National Arts Centre (NAC) Young Playwrights Search and her early play Sadly As I Tie My Shoes premiered to critical acclaim at the NAC Atelier in Ottawa. Other plays include Scribbles, Dreamspyre (Honourable Mention, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award), Yellow on Thursdays, and her current work-in-progress, Courage. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from UBC, where she now teaches in the School of Creative Writing.

Phanésia Pharel is a Haitian-American playwright from a dragon fruit farm in Miami. The daughter of an immigrant teacher and farmer, she writes to honor people. Her full-length plays include Dead Girl’s Quinceñera, The Waterfall, R&B, Lucky, and Black Girl Joy.

Her honors include recognition from The Kilroys, finalist status at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, five Kennedy Center awards, two-time Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist/honorable mention, Jane Chambers Prize finalist, A is For Playwriting Award recipient, and a Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language finalist.

She has received commissions from Atlantic Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Miranda Family Fund, Hero Theatre, City Theatre Miami, and Latinx Playwrights Circle. A member of the Obie Award-winning EST/Youngblood and The Wish Collective, her play the wish has been performed in over 20 states since the fall of Roe v. Wade. Her work has been developed by The Old Globe, Playwrights’ Center, New York Stage and Film, SolFest, Thrown Stone, Shattered Globe, and Echo Theater Company.

Phanésia is pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego, mentored by Naomi Iizuka and Deborah Stein. She is the incoming Emory University Playwriting Fellow for 2025-2027.

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