Auteur : Playwrights' Workshop Montréal

Application Deadline: sunday, february 16TH, 2025 AT 11:59PM EST.

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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, February 16, 2025.

Questions about this workshop can be sent to leila@playwrights.ca with the subject line: Exploring Practice with Burcu Emeç.

If you have any questions regarding accessibility, or require assistance with this application, please contact accessibility@playwrights.ca.

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:

Burcu Emeç is a theatre creator, intimacy coordinator (film/TV), and intimacy director (live performance) based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her theatre/live art practice focuses on narrative beyond text and spatial and visual dramaturgy. She frequently weaves social commentary with images and explores the spaces between performativity and “non-acting.” Her theatre/live art work has found its place in varying venues like theatres, galleries, and parks, and has received support from performance companies and festivals like Festival TransAmériques (FTA), La SERRE-arts vivants, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), SummerWorks, Playwrights Workshop Montréal, and Public Recordings.

Throughout her artistic path, Burcu has been interested in how the way artists collaborate impacts their work. This interest led her to work at Articule, one of Canada’s oldest artist-run centres, where she played a pivotal role in facilitating anti-harassment and anti-racist advocacy initiatives. The advocacy thread continues in Burcu’s current role as an intimacy professional for stage and screen, where she provides a consent-forward and movement-based framework to tell stories that involve nudity, intimacy, and sensitive content. Certified by SAG-AFTRA accredited IDC: Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (U.S.) and Intimacy Coordinators Canada, Burcu has worked for A24, CBS, Lionsgate, and Paramount+, amongst others. She received training from HBO’s Lead Intimacy Coordinator Alicia Rodis (The Deuce, Insecure, High Maintenance), the first to be hired by a major network, and Claire Warden, the first intimacy director on Broadway. Burcu has a complimentary background as an active listener, which enriches her work. Her approach is rooted in a queer, anti-racist, and sex-positive framework, striving to cultivate a supportive and empowering environment for every member of the team.

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THIS WORKSHOP IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE GLASSCO TRANSLATION RESIDENCY.

THIS THEATRE TRANSLATION RESIDENCY IS OFFERED BY PWM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COLE FOUNDATION, AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF BILL GLASSCO.

Apply by February 21, 2025.
Applicants will be contacted by March 31, 2025

If you have any questions regarding accessibility, require assistance with this application, or would like to discuss alternative methods of applying, please contact Heather at accessibility@playwrights.ca.

The Glassco Translation Residency offers a unique opportunity for playwrights and translators working in any language to delve into the complexities of theatre translation, to bring new translations to life. Translators and playwrights apply together to work on a specific project during the residency. Over the course of the 10 days, participants live together at Fletcher Cottage in Tadoussac to develop the translations. Translations from and into any language are accepted. Work is done independently by each playwright-translator pair, and with the support of acclaimed Translation Dramaturg, Maryse Warda. Artists gather for a collaborative 5 à 7 discussion and catered meal together each evening.

Selection Criteria

• A key eligibility requirement is the availability of both the playwright and the translator to attend the residency together.
• We aim to support translation projects in a variety of languages. We strongly encourage applications for translations in languages in addition to English and French. 
• We accept applications of plays that are currently in the process of being translated. Please note that we do not fund the commission of the translation. 
• The play should ideally have had a production in its original language. 
• At least one component of the project (playwright, translator, commissioning theatre, or producing theatre) needs to be Canadian.
• Residency participants will be selected by a committee. The number of translator-playwright pairs we can welcome is limited by the number of spots available in the residency. The committee will make their selection based on the potential benefit to the playwright, translator and the project, as well as the dynamic of the group.

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You can apply for the 2025 Glassco Translation Residency via our Google form.

Audio et video answers to some of the questions in the form are also welcomed. Click here to view the form as a PDF.

You will be asked to provide the following information: 

• Name, pronouns (optional), age (optional), and contact information of the translator and playwright
• Geographical location(s) the translator and playwright will be departing from to get to Tadoussac 
• A description (written, video or audio) of the project which includes:
  • A description / history of the translator and playwright’s working relationship;
  • Why the work in question is being translated;
  • An indication of how the Residency will benefit the project, including how working in person with the playwright might move the translation forward;
  • Any details on production interest;
  • A description of where you are in the translation process;
  • Whether you are interested in dramaturgical conversations around translations, including with other artists at the residency;
• Biographies and CVs of both the playwright and translator;
• A copy of the play in its original language;
• A sample of a previous translation work (10 – 12 pages); 
• A sample of the translation work proposed for the residency if the work has already begun (10 – 12 pages)

If you have any questions with regard to the Glassco Translation Residency, please email our Programs Manager, Heather, at heather@playwrights.ca.

About the Glassco Translation Residency

The Glassco Translation Residency invites playwrights and translators from across Canada and internationally to come together for ten days in Tadoussac, Quebec, to work in-depth on their translation projects. As one of the few residencies of its kind in Canada, the Glassco Translation Residency is instrumental in bridging linguistic barriers, and supporting the development of vibrant new translations. 

Participants are provided with a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in creative collaboration  and to share questions, thoughts, and ideas in a residency environment. Translations into all languages are welcomed. Over the past 18 years we have offered space, time, and dramaturgical expertise to over 76 translation projects into languages such as Cantonese, Catalan, Cree, English, French, Innu-aimun, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, Tagalog and Urdu.

The Glassco Translation Residency dramaturg will once again be award-winning translator Maryse Warda, joined by residency co-host, Aki Matsushita (PWM Dramaturg).

About the Glassco Translation Residency Facilitator

Born in Egypt, where she spent her childhood, Maryse Warda has been active on Quebec stages since 1992, and has translated more than seventy plays. Her work has helped introduce French-speaking audiences to many Canadian authors such as John Mighton, Morris Panych and George F. Walker. She has also translated for many American, British, Scottish and Irish authors including Howard Barker, Margaret Edson, David Greig, David Hare, David Ives, Cindy Lou Johnson, David Mamet, Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter.

In 2011, she received the Governor General’s Award for her translation of the play The Toxic Bus Incident by Greg MacArthur. Her translation of Anthony Black’s One Discordant Violin – inspired by a short story by Yann Martel – was the subject of her work at the Glassco Translation Residency in 2019 and was  presented at La Licorne in the fall of 2022. Since January 2024, she’s had three translations presented in Montreal : Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica, at Duceppe; and at Théâtre du Rideau Vert a Québécois adaptation of Benoit Solès’ La Machine de Turing, as well as a translation of Kendall Feaver’s The Almighty Sometimes, consecutively between January and April. 

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The Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac is made possible through our partnership with the Cole Foundation’s Intercultural Conversations Program, the dedication of Residency Producer Briony Glassco, and the support of the friends and family in memory of the great Canadian theatre artist, Bill Glassco. We are also grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal for their ongoing support.

WE’RE THRILLED TO INTRODUCE Charles gao AS THE RECIPIENT OF AMPLIFIER, A SUPPORTED EXPLORATORY CREATION PROCESS FOR PLAYWRIGHTS.

AMPLIFIER is a program by Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PWM), LA SERRE–arts vivants (LA SERRE) and the Conseil des Arts de Montréal (CAM) that offers a long-term exploratory creation process to a playwright working creatively in one of Canada’s official languages. This program offers artistic and financial support, including dramaturgical collaboration, a professional workshop with actors, and a residency leading to a presentation to programmers and peers.

The program aims to support the artistic practice of theatre artists who identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), Black, POC,  racialized including 1st or 2nd generation immigrant artists (as defined in the Conseil des Arts de Montréal’s glossary) working creatively in one of Canada’s official languages. Additionally, it seeks to foster dialogue between Montréal’s English- and French-speaking theatre communities, as well as intercultural exchanges and greater representation for culturally diverse artists within the theatre community and on Montréal’s stages.  This is the third iteration of PWM’s Amplifier program; past alumni include Sylvia Cloutier et chadia.

In order to support artists creating in French and artists creating in English, CAM et La Serre offer this program alternately with the Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) in French (Résidence Voix Théâtrales), and with PWM in English.

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Since its inception in 2013, the Mentorat pour traductrices et traducteurs émergents de la Fondation Cole has been guiding the next generation of French to English theatre translators.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 2025 AT 11:59PM EST.

If you have any questions regarding accessibility or require assistance with your application, please contact Heather at accessibility@playwrights.ca. Click here for more accessibility information.

If you have any questions regarding the Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators, please contact heather@playwrights.ca. 

Who Can Apply?

To be eligible, emerging translators must reside in Montreal and have completed at least one translation which has received a workshop, public reading, publication or production. Because the focus is supporting emerging translators, the applicant must not have done more than three play translations. 

With What Play(s)?

Before applying for the Mentorship, emerging translators must choose the play they wish to translate and contact the playwright for permission: Establishing a connection to the play and the playwright in advance means that the applicant would be in a position to begin work immediately following the announcement of the selected project in late February.

Translations must be from French into English only. 

Full-length scripts, one-acts or TYA (theatre for young audiences) projects are all welcome. Please note, our experience does not extend to the translation of musicals.

Application Process

Fill out this Google Form by January 15, 2025. Click here to preview the application form as a PDF.  You will be asked to provide the following information:

• Your name, pronouns (optional) and contact information 
• A one-page letter of intent describing the project, its challenges, your reasons for wanting to translate the work, and how you hope to grow in your practice through the mentorship. PDF documents, video or audio responses are accepted. If submitting a video or audio response, please answer in one video/recording, maximum 5 minutes.
• Your biography (maximum 250 words);
• A copy of your chosen play;
• Written permission from the original playwright of the play;
• A 10-12 page sample of your previous translation work, please include the corresponding original text.
• If you require any accommodations to participate in the program should you be selected.

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee.

All applicants will be notified of the results by the end of February 2025.

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