JOIN US IN CELEBRATING QUEER THEATRE AT THE 2026 QUEER READING SERIES.
PWM, in partnership with Centaur theatre, invites you to join us for two readings of dynamic new works-in-progress by Queer artists. The Queer Reading Series continues for its 6th year amplifying the voices of early-career 2SLGBTQIA+ playwrights.
On May 14 and 15 at 7:30PM, Centaur Theatre will host Not Just Empty Space by Sarah Danielle Pitman and Dylan’s Song by Anna Morreale. Each performance will be followed by a conversation with the creative team.
Le Queer Reading Series is a FREE event. Donations help us keep our programming free to artists, and will be gratefully accepted at the door.
Both readings will be presented with English captions, and the conversations will be presented with auto-generated captioning, for accessibility purposes.
Join us to uplift exciting new works-in-progress and support Queer voices exploring the intersections of queerness and artistic practice.
Calendrier
thursday, may 14th at 7:30PM:
Not Just Empty Space
by Sarah Danielle Pitman.
Directed by Trevor Barrette.
Performed by Alyssa Angelucci-Wall and Gabrielle Banville.
Dramaturgy by Fatma Sarah Elkashef and Aki Matsushita.
Kitty Hawk, 1903: a fifteen-year-old girl attempts to photograph the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Just outside the Earth’s orbit, 2103: an astronaut thrown from their spaceship drifts aimlessly through the universe.
Right here, right now: two unnamed collaborators argue over how to weave these stories together for the stage.
A work of historical and speculative drama, Not Just Empty Space explores connections through time, as well as our own expectations of theatrical storytelling.
friday, may 15th at 7:30PM:
Dylan’s Song
by Anna Morreale.
Directed by Annie Valentina.
Dramaturgy by Erin Lindsay.
Choreography by Scott McCabe.
Performed by Anastassia Chepelkevitch, Lior Maharjan, and Micha Raoutenfeld.
Producing support by Lily Chang.
Poetry. Drama. Dance. Dylan is numb. She has been trying to achieve something beyond herself for years: going to raves every weekend, using ketamine everyday, and giving her body to anyone that wants it. After the death of a lover, and a near psychotic episode on the dancefloor, Dylan decides to quit the scene – but not without one final night out. Alongside her chorus of beautiful bodies, Dylan dances through her memories of last night’s last rave, discovering just how dark her desires have really become. And what her mind tries to forget, her body forces her to remember.
Content advisory:
Self harm, drug use, overdose, mentions of blood and bodily harm.
About the Playwrights
Sarah Danielle Pitman is a playwright who grew up on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen and W_SÁNEC nations. Now based in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal, she is a graduate of the playwriting program at Canada’s National Theatre School where her play Salvage The Wrecked was produced for the New Words Festival. Sarah’s play Lay Down All Dogs was presented as a staged reading at the Centaur Theatre for their 2026 WinterWorks Festival, and her theatre-for-young audiences show Beyond Belief is currently touring schools around Quebec and the Maritimes as part of Geordie Theatre’s 2Play Tour.
Wright brothers’ first flight. 1903. Photo credit: Unknown
Anna Morreale is a multidisciplinary artist and recent alum of the CBC Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre. Since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2021, Anna has been working professionally in the theatre, film and voice acting industries. Their first introduction to playwriting was through Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal’s Young Creators Unit in 2024, where they began developing their first play: Dylan’s Song. Anna also wrote and starred in their debut short film: NIKITA, produced by the CFC and directed by Jessie Posthumus.
Photo credit: Mark Binks
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