Exploring Practice is a key part of our professional development programming. Each series delves into a different aspect of the creation process. Over several short encounters, guest artists share their expertise with participants. These are opportunities for local artists to nourish and deepen their craft.
Applications are now closed for Exploring Practice workshops. To know more about open opportunities, sign up for our newsletter.
Past programming has included:
- Introduction to Theatre Translation with Leanna Brodie.
- Building Your Grant Proposal with Jesse Stong
- What’s Collective? with Public Recordings
- Germination with Kalale Dalton-Lutale and Gillian Clark
- The Fornés Workshop with Mariló Nuñez
- The MBA for Lefty, Anti-Capitalist Theatre Artists: staging the next act of your theatre career, with Tetsuro Shigematsu
- The Dramaturgical Process: First Principles and Practical Applications, with Andrea Romaldi
- Building Your Grant Proposal with Jesse Stong
- Spatial Dramaturgy: Developing an Urban Performance Practice with Shauna Janssen
- Script Analysis with Maureen Labonté
- Creating Object Theatre with La Pire Espèce
- Building Your Grant Proposal with Jesse Stong
- CIRCUS — Writing in the In-Between with Andréane Leclerc
- Archipelago Dramaturgies — a world in process with Jessie Mill and Katalin Trencsényi
- Writing the political through the personal with Carmen Aguirre
- Re:Shaping Borders with Naïma Kristel Phillips
- Writing and Devising Puppet Theatre with Clea Minaker
- Theatre Translation Workshop with Frank Heibert with Frank Heibert
- Grant Writing Workshop for Emerging Artists with Jesse Stong
- Structure (For Writers who Hate Structure) with Eric Micha Holmes
- Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab (Presented in collaboration with Studio 303) with Kathy Casey, Dana Dugan and Sarah Elkashef
- Protective Practices for Playwrights with Robin Sokoloski
- Dramaturgy with Katalin Trencsényi
- Social Justice as an Engine for Theatrical Creation with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
- Subverting the canon: Writing plays as though race, class, gender and sexual orientation mattered with Corrina Hodgson
- An Exploration of the Puppetry Creation Process with Clea Minaker
- Alternative Narrative with Brian Drader
- Contemporary American Theatre with Jonathan Garfinkel
- Writing Home: Finding Story in Bloodlines with Tara Beagan
- Writing for Young Audiences with Dean Fleming
- Creating Documentary Theatre for the Contemporary Stage with Annabel Soutar
- Adaptation for the Stage with Erin Shields
- Myth, Memory, History and Theatre with Michael Mackenzie
- Writing For Non-Traditional Space with Lois Brown
- Autobiographical Fiction with Jonathan Garfinkel
How to Apply:
Stay tuned throughout the year for announcements about upcoming Exploring Practice sessions. Signing up for our newsletter or following us on social media are the best ways to stay informed about our programs. We publish specific application details for each Exploring Practice.
Exploring Practice and other professional development activities are made possible by:
