PARC Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit – DEADLINE: 2025/04/30

With the generous funding support from Arts Nova Scotia, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) is pleased to announce their inaugural Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit. In this unit, 4 early-career playwrights from across Atlantic Canada will write a one-act play from an initial idea to a fully realized first draft. PARC will arrange dramaturgical support over the course of a year for the project, which will culminate in a week of workshops with actors and a public evening of readings. Each participant will receive an honorarium, in addition to specialized dramaturgical support and a workshop with professional actors.

PARC’s Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit will use the theme of (dis)connection as a starting point. Over the span of a year, selected playwrights and dramaturges will meet quarterly via zoom to share writing with one another and receive feedback from their peers and respective dramaturges. For the final quarterly meeting, playwrights will assemble in Halifax, NS, (travel costs covered by PARC) for a week of script development workshops with actors. Regional artistic directors and producers will be invited to attend the final public reading, with the goal of sparking the opportunity for future development and ideally, eventual production and public presentation.

PARC’s Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit will consist of one emerging playwright from each Atlantic province (NL, NS, PEI, NB), with at least two writers being Indigenous and/or Racialized. Selected writers will be chosen by a jury comprised of PARC staff (who are also playwrights and dramaturges in their own right), Santiago Guzmán, Lara Lewis, and Jena McLean. For questions, feedback, or support related to your application, please contact PARC Associate Artistic Director Lara Lewis at artassoc@playwrightsatlantic.ca.

To learn more and submit, please visit their website.