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At least 100 plays developed at Playwrights’ Workshop between 2000 and 2008 have been or shortly will be produced by theatres across Canada and internationally. These productions were staged by companies ranging from independent producers, to regional theatres, and world renowned festivals.

Here is just a sampling of these projects.

Title Playwright Producing Company/Date PWM Involvement
A Beautiful View Daniel MacIvor

Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio) 2006
Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa) 2006
Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto) 2006
Spoletto Festival (Charleston, South Carolina) 2006
Usine C (Montreal) 2006
American Repertory Ensemble (Austin, Texas) 2007
Under the Radar Festival, Public Theatre (NY, NY) 2007

Masterclass
Age of Arousal (formerly The Unsexed) Linda Griffiths ATP’s playRites Festival (Calgary) 2007
Betty Mitchell Award (Calgary) Best New Play 2007 Nightwood Theatre & Factory Theatre (Toronto) 2007 Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia, PA) 2007-08
Residency and Public Reading
Between Lovers Sheri-D Wilson One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary) 2003
Belfry Theatre (Victoria) 2003
Women's Unit, In-house Workshop, production dramaturgy
Burning Vision

Marie Clements

Urban Ink & Rumble Theatre (Vancouver) 2002
Festival de Théâtre des Amériques (Montreal) 2003
Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa) 2003

Women's Unit, Artist Residency, Production Dramaturgy & dramaturgical sessions
Bye Bye Baby

Elyse Gasco

Imago Theatre (Montreal) 2004
Centaur Theatre Company (Montreal) 2005
Imago Theatre, Centaur Theatre (Montreal) 2006, 2007

Artist Residency, In-house Workshop & dramaturgical sessions
Casa de Mary Margaret

Colleen Curran

Village Theatre (Hudson, QC) 2004 Dramaturgical sessions &
In-house Workshop
Copper Thunderbird Marie Clements National Arts Centre (Ottawa) 2007 National Arts Centre English Theatre (Ottawa) 2007
Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa) 2007
Production Dramaturgy
The Danish Play

Sonja Mills

Nightwood Theatre (Toronto) 2002
National Arts Centre (Ottawa) 2002
Produced in Copenhagen (Denmark) 2003
Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Edmonton) 2004

Artist Residency & dramaturgical sessions
Elephant Song Nicholas Billon Stratford Festival (Stratford) 2004 Dramaturgical sessions
The Envelope Plays Gavin Drummond Tightrope Theatre (Montreal) 2005
Centaur Theatre Wildside Festival (Montreal) 2006
Dramaturgical sessions
Elisa's Skin Carole Fréchette

Tarragon Theatre (Toronto) 2001
Theatre Pi (Vancouver) 2003
Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa) 2005

In-house Workshop &
Public Reading
Freeport Texas Michael Springate On the Verge (Edmonton) 2004
Sodium Glow (Vancouver) 2003

Dramaturgical sessions

Girls! Girls! Girls Greg MacArthur Montréal Fringe Festival 2000
Buddies in Bad Time (Toronto) 2000
Festival de théâtre des Amériques (Montréal) 2001
Artist in Residence,
dramaturgical session
Governor Of The Dew Floyd Favel Star Globe Theatre (Regina) 2000
National Tour, 2001
Public Reading
Gravity Trisha Collins Urban Ink Productions (Vancouver) 2007 Artist Residency
Have a Heart David Sherman

Centaur Theatre Company (Montreal) 2006

Dramaturgical sessions
Head Debbie Patterson Shakepeare in the Ruins (Winnipeg) 2006
In-house Workshop
Honky Tonk Blue Laura Teasdale Theatre Lac Brome (Knowlton, QC) 2005 Dramaturgical sessions
Housekeeping & Homewrecking Alex Haber Montreal Fringe 2007
Theatre St. Catherine (Montreal) 2007
In-House Workshop
Hypatia Pan Bouyoucas
(Translator: Michael Brunet)
Theatro Argot (Rome, Italy) 2004
Belgrade Drama Theatre (Serbia) 2006
Transmissions
Lionel Pan Bouyoucas University of Victoria (Victoria) 2008  
Madre Beatriz Pizano Aluna Theatre (Toronto) 2008 Artist Residency
The Monument Colleen Wagner
(translator: Carole Fréchette)
Central Experimental Theatre (Beijing, China) 2000
Sophiensaele Theatre (Berlin, Germany) 2000
Théâtre de la Manufacture (Montréal) 2001
Transmissions

The Glass Eye
(formerly Polo's Fantasy)

Louis Negin
(with Marie Brassard)
Usine C (Montreal) 2007 Public Reading
The Pope and
Princess Di
Berni Stapleton Artistic Fraud (Newfoundland) 2004 Dramaturgical sessions & Artist Residency
The Queen of Hearts Manon Beaudoin Les Saints (Toronto) 2008 Artist Residency
Red Mother Muriel Miguel Berkley University (California) 2003 Artist Residency
Small Returns Jacob Richmond Infinitheatre (Montréal) 2002
Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto) 2004
Dramaturgical session
Snowman Greg MacArthur

Imago Theatre (Montreal) 2004
Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto) 2005
Nakai Theatre (Whitehorse) 2004
Theatre Bonn (Germany) 2006

Dramaturgical sessions
The Swanne (Trilogy) Peter Hinton Stratford Festival (Stratford) 2003, 2004, 2005 Production Dramaturgy
Three Sisters Susan Coyne (translator/adaptor) Shaw Festival (Niagara on the Lake) 2003 Tadoussac Playwrights' Residence
The Unnatural and Accidental Women Marie Clements

Firehall Arts Centre (Vancouver) 2001
Native Earth Performing Arts (Toronto) 2004
Washburn Theatre (Topeka, Kansas) 2005

Dramaturgical sessions & Women's Unit
The Veil Shahin Sayadi

One Light Theatre/ Neptune Theatre (Halifax),
November 2007
Harbourfront Festival (Toronto), Nov.-Dec. 2007

Tadoussac Playwrights' Residence
Women in Fish Marie Clements

Urban Ink (Galliano Island, BC) 2004
CBC Radio 2004, 2005

Production Dramaturgy
120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade music by Peter Hannan
libretto by Peter Hinton
Modern Baroque Opera (Vancouver) 2002
Ijsbreker Teatre (Amsterdam, Holland) 2005
Dramaturgical sessions &
In-house Workshop

 

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