
WORKSHOP FOR IBPOC NEW AND EMERGING WRITERS – Intro to Playwriting
Date: March 9, 2025, 10am-12pm
Location: Beaconsfield Carriage House, Charlottetown PE
Cost: Free
Curious about playwriting, but you don’t know where to begin? Join Santiago Guzmán, Artistic Director at Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC), as he shares the basic building blocks of playwriting and formatting!
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/