2026 World Theatre Day Message
What are we celebrating when we celebrate World Theatre Day? Perhaps it’s this ancient art form that has transformed over time and circumstance to continue engaging and inspiring audiences and …
News
Member Wins Prize in Play Competition
Ron Davies’ 10-minute play The Force of Attraction has won second prize in the 2026 US national Science Play Competition sponsored by the Simon Center for Geometry and Physics at …
PGCer Wins Play Competition
Romeo Ciolfi’s play Waves won Fire Exit Theatre’s 9th Annual Scripts on Fire New Play Competition! First place wins $500 and a trip to Calgary in the spring where the …
Earthen: Stories
Katherine Koller’s second collection of short stories, Earthen, appears in May. The characters in the short stories of Earthen are all in need of guidance: mothers, widows and wives, grandmas …
PGC Member Publication
Heartlines: A Love Story, the original 2-act play by Sarah Waisvisz, is out now by Vancouver’s own Talonbooks! Heartlines imagines the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude …
2025 Lifetime Membership Award Recipient
Djanet Sears Congratulations to Djanet Sears, winner of this year’s Lifetime Membership Award! “This groundbreaking playwright delves beautifully into the human condition with a particular focus on Black cultures and …
2025 Tom Hendry Awards Recipients
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. In Seven …
2025 Drama Award Recipient
Supported by the National Arts Centre, English Theatre 21 translated by Katherine Turnbull Translation of the original play by Rachel Graton Sara’s job is to help troubled teens with a …
2025 Comedy Award Recipient
Supported by an Anonymous Donor Home Deliveries translated by Leanna Brodie Translation of Catherine Léger’s original play, Deux Femmes en or; Adapted from the screenplay by Marie-José Raymond and Claude …
2025 RBC Emerging Playwright Recipient
Supported by RBC Foundation Syncopation on Terauley Street by Trisha Harlan Set in 1921 in Toronto’s St. John’s Ward, this play follows Lila, a talented Black singer-songwriter, and her band, …
2025 Theatre for Young Audiences Award Recipient
Supported by the Estate of Rachel Wyatt PYPER by Susanna Fournier Through a dramatic and hilarious retelling of the Pied Piper and Pinocchio, PYPER follows the angst, humour, heartbreak, and …
2025 Carol Bolt Award Recipient
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. In Seven Days by Jordi …