Description
Applications are now open for the 2024 Gros Morne Playwrights' Residency, taking place September 26 to October 7, 2024!
For 10 days, seven playwrights from across Canada will gather for an unparalleled opportunity to write and develop their scripts while staying at the Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station. Artists-in-residence are welcomed by the vibrant community of Norris Point, near the Gros Morne National Park on the breathtaking west coast of Newfoundland. This residency supports artists working in English or French, and provides unstructured writing time, opportunities for sharing work in progress as a group, and individual sessions with residency dramaturgs.
Elligibility:
- Be a playwright, writing in English, and have had at least one dramatic work workshopped, published, or professionally produced;
- The play should ideally be in the early stages of development (first draft or slightly beyond);
- Be available for the whole residency;
- Be willing to participate in group activities prepared during the residency;
- For playwrights writing in French, please visit the CEAD website. Please note that the CEAD only accepts applications from their members.
You can read the complete details about the residency on PWM website.
Submit your application by May 6, 2024!
Selected applicants will be contacted by June 17, 2024.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, require assistance with this application, or would like to discuss alternative methods of applying, please contact accessibility@playwrights.ca.
This unique dual-lingual residency is offered by PWM and Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), in partnership with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Creative Gros Morne, the Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station, and the vital support of the Cole Foundation.
