Contact details:
Website address: www.playwrightsguild.ca
Email address for general inquiries: info@playwrightsguild.ca
Twitter: @PGuildCanada
Facebook: @playwrightsguildofcanada
Goals/mission:
- “…to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage”
Notable past and current activities:
- Webinars: e.g., “Commission Contracts,” “Evolving Collaboration”
- Professional Productions
- Amateur Productions
- Readings
- Tom Hendry Awards
- Ordering Scripts
- PlayConnect (Funding for playwrights to host play readings)
- Creator Exchanges (Ten playwrights and ten other people involved in theatre meet up and discuss creativity and the industry. These happen 4-5 times a year in various cities across Canada)
Ways in which people can get involved:
- Attending productions (either amateur or professional)
- Going to events
- Canadian Play Outlet (401 Richmond Street West, Suite 350)
- Memberships (Student and Full)
- Student: Anyone who is not a professional playwright. Benefits: newsletter, consultation of playwright matters, promotion on professional/amateur shows on PGC social media, invites to PGC events
- Full/Professional: Someone who has had work “produced by a professional theatre, or by a company or festival that receives funding from a municipal, provincial, territorial, or national arts-funding body” and/or had work produced with the decision being “made by a jury of professional peers or an artistic director; the play was presented for a minimum of six performances; the production was open to the public, tickets were sold, and the playwright was paid.” Benefits: Receives same benefits as student memberships and a listing on PGC website, distribution of plays, voting privileges, can stand for office at PGC National Forum/committees
Information compiled by Sabryna Ekstein.