Tarragon Theatre has had playwrights-in-residence for most of its history. Since 1982, there have been as many as six playwrights-in-residence at any given time, fully using all of the four offices exclusively reserved for playwrights. They have no obligations to Tarragon, although we do hope that they are busy writing plays that we may one day produce on one of our stages. The writers value the professional atmosphere and the support systems provided for them. In fact, we all benefit from the daily interaction between playwrights, theatre staff and visiting artists.

Current Playwrights-in-Residence

	Morwyn Brebner's debut play, Music for Contortionist, was co-produced by Tarragon Theatre and the Shaw Festival in 2000 and nominated for a Dora and a Chalmers award. Other plays at Tarragon include Liquor Guns Karate, Little Mercy's First Murder (co-produced with Shaw, with composers Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli, winner of 7 Dora Awards, including outstanding new musical) and The Optimists (which was first produced at Theatre Junction in Calgary in 2004). Morwyn was co-writer (with Ken Finkleman and Ellen Vanstone) of At The Hotel for CBC Television.
	Susan Coyne's first book, Kingfisher Days, was published by Random House in 2001. She later adapted it as a play for the Tarragon. She has also adapted plays by Chekhov for Soulpepper Theatre Company (Platonov with Laszlo Marton) and the Shaw Festival (Three Sisters), and adapted Carol Shields’ novel Unless for CBC radio. Her latest play, Alice’s Affair , premiered at the Tarragon in 2005. She has been nominated for a Gemini and won a Writers Guild award for her work on the television miniseries Slings and Arrows (created and written with Bob Martin and Mark McKinney). She is a graduate of Queen’s University and the National Theatre School of Canada, and a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company.
	Brendan Gall has written three plays: Panhandled (UnSpun Theatre), A Quiet Place (produced by his own company, Single Threat), and Alias Godot. Developed through Tarragon's 2006 Playwrights Unit and translated into Italian for Teatro Della Limonaia's Intercity Festival in Florence, Alias Godot will have its English-Language/North American premiere in Tarragon's Mainspace in 2008. Brendan has also contributed pieces to The Awesome Club Presents…"It's Raining Fun!" (The Awesome Club), AutoShow and The Gladstone Variations (Convergence Theatre), co-created I Keep Dropping Sh*t (Small Wooden Shoe), Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and DON'T WAKE ME (UnSpun Theatre), and written the independent feature film Dakota (El Duo Motion Pictures). Brendan is currently working on an adaptation of Checkhov's The Seagull, as well as UnSpun's newest collective effort, The Red Room . He is also an actor.
	Michael Healey: His plays include Kicked (Toronto Fringe), The Drawer Boy (theatre Passe Muraille), The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch, Tarragon), Plan B (Tarragon), Rune Arlidge (Tarragon), and The Innocent Eye Test (Mirvish Productions). He has adapted plays by Chekhov and Molnar for Soulpepper. An actor since graduating from the Ryerson Theatre School in 1985, he has appeared in his own work, as well as in plays by Jason Sherman and George F. Walker, among others. Michael has been a writer in residence at the Tarragon since 1999.
	Hannah Moscovitch
	Rosa Laborde

Past Playwrights-in-Residence

A few of these writers have been supported by the dedicated playwrights-in-residence short term grants available from both the Ontario Arts Council Playwright Residency and Canada Council.

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