Playwrights
RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights' Competition
Tarragon Theatre and RBC Foundation are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2011/2012 RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights' Competition is Jessica Anderson for her play The Gods and Calvin Brewer.
Script Submissions
If you would like to introduce yourself and your work to Tarragon Theatre, please read on.
Playwrights Unit
The Playwrights Unit is an innovative group designed to bring six playwrights together to develop new work for the stage over the course of a year.
Play Reading Week
Our annual Play Reading Week takes place every year in December. Here, each play from the Playwrights Unit receives a public reading.
WorkSpace
The WorkSpace Program allows Tarragon to further explore play development by producing artists’ work in the primary stages.
Theatre Creators’ Reserve
Tarragon Theatre sees this program as an opportunity to provide time for the creator to
take their play to the next stage or two of its development. These grants
offer the creator an opportunity to conduct research, or to work on a first
draft or subsequent drafts of a play. If the project is a collective creation,
the grant buys time to improvise/create in the rehearsal hall.
George Brown New Play Development
Each year, the Tarragon works with George Brown to select an appropriate playwright to work with George Brown’s second year class. The playwright’s script is workshopped by the class, under the direction of a professional theatre director. In the students’ third year, a second workshop culminates in a staged reading. George Brown Theatre School then has the option of performing the play in a full production later that year.