Playwrights

RBC Tarragon Under 30 National Playwriting Competition

Tarragon Theatre, with the generous support of RBC Foundation, is pleased to announce our inaugural Under 30 National Playwriting Competition. The winner of this competition will receive a cash award of $3,000, and the opportunity to participate in Tarragon's annual Play Reading Week in 2009.

Script Submissions

Tarragon is interested in reading work by both emerging and established playwrights. However, before you submit your script to us, we ask that you read the following guidelines.

Playwrights-in-Residence

Tarragon Theatre has had playwrights-in-residence for most of its history.

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 by professional actors.

WorkSpace

The WorkSpace Program allows Tarragon to further explore play development by producing artists’ work in the primary stages.

Theatre Creators’ Reserve Grant

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.

Theatre Creators' Reserve funds have been alloted for the 08/09 season.

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.