Application Deadline: sunday, November 16TH, 2025 AT 11:59PM EST.
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Have you always wanted to learn more about dramaturgy as an artistic practice or how to approach a process dramaturgically? In describing her d'Exploration des pratiques!, Emma Tibaldo writes:
“There are as many dramaturgical processes as there are dramaturgs and playwrights. I will attempt to share some of the things I have learned in my 20-year career as Dramaturg, and Director of New Canadian Plays. This workshop is open to emerging dramaturgs and theatre artists curious about the collaborative dramaturgical process.
We will look at a variety of scenarios including:
How to begin a first conversation around the process with a playwright?
How to work with friends and colleagues?
How to gauge your own interest in a project? When to step away from a project?
How to work with directors and designers?
What does it mean to dramaturg a play and then transition into directing the production?
What is our responsibility to the theatre community we work in?
There will be practical group and individual exercises. You will be asked to share your own experiences in an effort to learn from one another and to identify some best practices we can then expand on in our own collaborations.
We will end our time together with an open question session. You will have the opportunity to ask anything you like about Dramaturgy (and stuff related to theatre) to PWM Dramaturgs and myself.”
SCHEDULE
Monday, December 15, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Tuesday, December 16, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Wednesday, December 17, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Thursday, December 18, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Participants are expected to be available for the duration of the scheduled sessions.
LOCATION
PWM Studio: 7250 Rue Clark #103, Montreal, Quebec, H2R2Y3
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HOW TO APPLY:
If you are interested in applying, please fill out this Google Form by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, November 16, 2025.
Questions about this workshop can be sent to PWM’s Professional Development and Training Coordinator, Alexy Trottier, at alexy@playwrights.ca with the subject line: Exploring Practice with Emma Tibaldo.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, or require assistance with this application, please contact accessibility@playwrights.ca.
Click here for accessibility information and video tours of our location.
PWM welcomes all applications. While recognizing that the identity of each person is fundamentally plural, and multidimensional, we strongly encourage applications from artists who are: Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), Black, POC, racialized (including recent immigrants), 2SLGBTQQIPAA+, neurodivergent, disabled, living with chronic illness and/or chronic pain. PWM is strongly committed to supporting a wide range of cultural identities and lived experiences, therefore we encourage applicants to self-identify in their application if they are comfortable doing so.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:
Emma is presently Artist in Residence at Concordia University, a freelance Director and Dramaturg, faculty member of the Banff Arts Centre’s Playwrights Lab, and Associate Artist with Poverty Cove Theatre. She is the former AED of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal where for fourteen years she dramaturgically collaborated on many new Canadian plays. Emma is an award winning director whose work has been presented across Canada. Most recently IDEMY by Elena Belyea, Still Life by Marie-Claude St-Laurent and Marie-Ève Milot, and Grace by Megan Gail Coles. She is a recipient of LMDA’s Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy, and the Conseil Québécois du théâtre Prix Sentinelle. She is also a member of the interdisciplinary company, The Bakery. She co-founded Talisman Theatre fresh out of NTS. She feeds her inner punk rocker by playing in two basement bands.
Photo Credit: Bernardo Fernandez
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