Join us for the first session of our 26/27 Work With Me! series!

An independent writing session with a prompt provided by leader, Djanet Sears, followed by a Q & A about inspiration and process.

This is a free event, however registration is required.

Register HERE.

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. 

Photographer: Drawing by: Phil Richards