Playwriting Workshop

PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Ask A Dramaturge(Or The Dramaturge Will Ask You)

 

Date: March 9, 2025, 1:30-4pm

Location: Beaconsfield Carriage House, Charlottetown PE

Cost: Free for PARC members

Non-members- $10 or PWYC

 

Participants will work with award-winning playwright & dramaturge, Santiago Guzmán, to further develop their new plays. Participants will talk about their script, the story, and their characters, and Santiago will provide dramaturgical questions, provocations, and prompts to unlock storytelling possibilities in their writing. No completed draft is needed to participate- an idea, a couple of pages, or some scenes could work! This workshop will focus on process, as opposed to a completed product.

 

About the Instructor:

Santiago Guzmán (he/they) is an award-winning playwright, dramaturge, performer, & director originally from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John’s, NL. Artistic Director of TODOS Productions & Artistic Director of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre.

Santiago’s work aims to put local, under-represented narratives and characters on the frontlines, whilst inviting audiences to appreciate the vibrancy of Newfoundland and Labrador from a diverse perspective.

In 2019, Santiago was listed as an innovator in Atlantic Business Magazine’s edition of 30 under 30: Newfoundland and Labrador. He was awarded the inaugural John Palmer Award in 2022 through the PGC for being a change-maker in the theatre industry with their advocacy in the arts regarding equity, diversity, and anti-racism. In 2023, he was inducted into the YWCA’s St. John’s Circle of Distinction with the Inspired Innovation Award for the same values. 

Santiago’s work is very gay, very brown, and very real. Santiago believes representation matters. http://www.thesantiagoguzman.com/ 

 

To register, contact Catherine: catherine@yahtheatre.com