The Playwriting Roundtable

The Playwriting Roundtable is a 5-month long program where emerging playwrights work to develop new pieces of theatre with the support of emerging dramaturgs and facilitators. Each session, the roundtable focuses on creative and career building skills through a series of workshops led by different emerging artists in the Toronto theatre community, who we believe are the future leaders of our industry. The program concludes with a play-reading series where each artist has the opportunity to showcase their work.

This year, we have chosen to focus on plays featuring or focusing on bilingual or multilingual elements.

3 emerging playwrights– interested in developing projects that include bilingual or multilingual text.
1 emerging dramaturg to work alongside our roundtable dramaturg as an Assistant.

we are looking for:

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Facilitated by: Mercedes Isaza Clunie and Zoe Marín

Roundtable Dramaturg: Jonnie Lombard

Timeline: January - June 2025 (dates dependent on cohort)

Applications due: December 21, 2024 @ 2pm

Interviews: Early - Mid-January

Honorarium: $250

To Apply:

Please fill our our GOOGLE FORM

You will also need to supply up to 10 pages of Support Materials. This can be anything that you feel would supplement your application/ give us a clearer view of you as an artist. Can include, but isn’t limited to: a sample of previous writing, resume/bio, website link, etc.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to reading your application. Please reach out to firstborntheatre@gmail.com with any questions concerning the application process.