Welcome to The Carol Libman Online Script Collection!

Named for one of the founders of Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, the on-line collection is an extension of our on-site Resource Library. The Resource Library was created in 1985, originally as a reading room for the Playwrights' Union of Canada (now the Playwrights' Guild of Canada). Over the years, the Resource Library and Online Script Collection have evolved into a dramaturgical resource for our members and an archive of past scripts developed at PWM .

The Online Script Collection operates as both a database of our library holdings and a virtual library. Here, you will find the names of over 1600 scripts, including those by Canadian playwrights whose work has been developed in conjunction with Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, and other important plays. You can view the full text of about thirty of these scripts on-line. The full text of all other scripts is available at our office for members to peruse during regular business hours.

You can direct inquiries about scripts or obtaining the rights to certain plays to Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, although the rights are more often handled by the playwright or publisher.

You don’t need any special software to browse the database, but to read the scripts that are available online you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not already have Acrobat Reader on your computer, download it from Adobe’s web site (free of charge).

This Digital Collection was produced under contract to the SchoolNet Digital Collections program, Industry Canada.