2025 THA Program
Prepare for tonight’s excitement by giving our ceremony program a read HERE.
News
Member Play a Finalist in Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Kate Jaimet’s tennis-themed comedy Mixed Doubles is a finalist in the prestigious Austin Film Festival’s Scriptwriting competition. Premiered at Ottawa’s Gladstone Theatre in 2023, Mixed Doubles tells the story of …
2025 Tom Hendry Award Finalists
Carol Bolt Award Supported by Playwrights Canada Press, Scirocco Drama, Alberta Playwrights Network, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre. The Bidding …
2025 THA Theatre for Young Audiences Award Finalists
Supported by the Estate of Rachel Wyatt A Boy, a Horse, & the North Wind by Sean Dixon (ON) It’s an adaptation of a novel from the 1880’s, George MacDonald’s At …
2025 THA RBC Emerging Playwright Award Finalists
Supported by the RBC Emerging Artists Project Syncopation on Terauley Street by Trisha Harlan (ON) Set in 1921 in Toronto’s St. John’s Ward, this play follows Lila, a talented Black singer-songwriter, …
2025 THA Drama Award Finalists
Supported by the National Arts Centre The Village It Takes by Michael Ross Albert (ON) In an attempt to escape late-stage capitalism and live more mindfully, a group of elder millennials …
2025 THA Musical Award Finalists
Supported by the Dan School of Drama and Music Small Gods, the Musical Book by Makram Ayache (ON), Music by Landon Doak Small Gods the Musical is a coming of …
2025 THA Carol Bolt Award Finalists
Supported by Playwrights Canada Press, Scirocco Drama, Alberta Playwrights Network, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre. The Bidding War by Michael …
2025 THA Comedy Award Finalists
Supported by an Anonymous Donor Koan by Damien Atkins (ON) A playwright has a terrible idea: he wants to write a play about trees. His director has a different suggestion: …
2025 THA Peer Assessment Panelists
Carol Bolt Award With the generous support of multiple organizations Peer Assessment Panelists: Karen Hines (Chair), Philip Akin, and Robert Tsonos Philip Akin is an award-winning cultural leader and has …
Member Play Receives Voaden Mention
Celia McBride’s new play, Lessons from Providence, developed as part of the 2024 Creator’s Unit at the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope, ON, won 2nd Honourable Mention in the 2025 …
Stage to Screen
PGC member, Lisa Hagen’s play has made it to the screen! Dancing on the Elephant, starring Sheila McCarthy, Mary Walsh, and Amanda Brugel, is playing film festivals in Halifax and …