Is There a Simple Answer to “How Do I Get Produced?” with Marcia Johnson
Is There a Simple Answer to “How Do I Get Produced?” with Marcia Johnson
Celebrating Women Playwrights: So Much Excellence, So Little Time Series
Join PGC’s Women Caucus for the final installment of this inspirational & informative conversation series, led by established Canadian women playwrights in celebration of International Women’s Day!
During Marcia Johnson’s years as Chair of the Women’s Caucus, the questions she heard the most were: “How do I get produced?” and “How do I get a meeting with an Artistic Director?” There are no simple answers, but Marcia has learned a few things over the last few years, and she is ready to share her thoughts.
Moderated by Kelley Jo Burke.
FREE & OPEN TO ALL!
About Marcia:
Marcia Johnson is a Toronto-based actor/playwright/librettist and dramaturg.
Her World War II play, Just Like Paris, was featured recently as a staged reading at the Advance Theatre Festival produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre. Serving Elizabeth, her most well-known play, had a well-received production at Prairie Theatre Exchange. Other plays include Perfect on Paper, Binti’s Journey (based on “The Heaven Shop” by Deborah Ellis), Say Ginger Ale, and the Dora-nominated opera, My Mother’s Ring (with composer Stephen A. Taylor).
Marcia has led playwriting workshops through Tarragon Theatre, Peterborough Theatre Guild, and Expect Theatre.
Acting performances include The Wonderful (Caravan Farm Theatre), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (YES/STC), and The New Canadian Curling Club (Blyth). Marcia makes the odd TV appearance (American Gods, American Gothic) and is in two short films making the festival circuit (Comics, Memento Mori).
About Kelley:
Kelley Jo Burke is a crip playwright and creative nonfiction writer/producer living as a settler on Treaty Four territory (Regina, SK). Her plays include the award-winning Rigby, Greensleep: a fairytale for the end of days, The Curst, Us created with Jeff Straker for which she received a Tom Hendry award, The Selkie Wife and Charming and Rose: True Love. Her many CBC’s radio IDEAS documentaries have been heard all over the world. Recent books include Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir, and Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism. She teaches, edits, dramaturges, narrates audiobooks, and was a host/producer for CBC Radio for 13 years. She has received multiple arts awards, including four City of Regina Writing Awards and the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor’s award for arts leadership.