2026 CLOSING PARTY
We’ll wrap up our 20th festival by celebrating new works-in-progress as a community! Join us at 6pm on March 8th to listen to excerpts of readings from plays developed in our Playwriting Lab and celebrate twenty years with a toast, in a memorable night hosted by incredible comedian Veronica Dymond.
The Playwriting Lab, led by PARC (Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre) Artistic Director Santiago Guzmán, is specifically for playwrights with plays in their early stages of development, including those with a complete first draft that still requires significant development. It offers a structured environment for a cohort of playwrights to develop their drafts. This year’s participants are Blair Curtis, Lisa Nsanzugwanko, Alexis Solaria, and Kate Clow.
Admission by online or at-the-door donation. Registration is required (there will be cake to share - and we want to make sure we have plenty for everyone!)
The Playwriting Lab, led by PARC (Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre) Artistic Director Santiago Guzmán, is specifically for playwrights with plays in their early stages of development, including those with a complete first draft that still requires significant development. It offers a structured environment for a cohort of playwrights to develop their drafts. This year’s participants are Blair Curtis, Lisa Nsanzugwanko, Alexis Solaria, and Kate Clow.
Admission by online or at-the-door donation. Registration is required (there will be cake to share - and we want to make sure we have plenty for everyone!)
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Blair Curtis - This Body Holds the Storm
Rowan, a nonbinary person living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, fights to be believed in a world that can’t see their pain. When they discover a support group, everything shifts, forcing Rowan to confront who they are, what they’ve lost, and what it means to keep living. This Body Holds the Storm is a raw, intimate play about chronic ilness, medical gaslighting, the power of being seen, and finding hope in the wreckage. |
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Belle Warner
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Joe Chinaka
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Olivia Graham-McNabb
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Simon Alteen
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Rahma Abdi Mohamed Alli
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Alexis Solaria - Beholder
Cassie faces a world of new challenges than her previous life. On the run from her past and looking for a fresh start, she knows that everything hinges on her being successful in school to become a Paramedic. She has a lot to learn with the help of new friends that she has made. Classes take a dangerous turn with the new attention of her instructor, and Cassie finds herself much deeper than she thought in elaborate lies and the jealous plotting of people that she considers her closest allies. Racing against escalating threats, she has to separate reality from lies and make choices that come with the cost of the very friendships that she is relying on. |
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Olivia Graham-McNabb
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Joe Chinaka
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Oluwatoyin Awosanya
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Lisah Nsanzugwanko - Nirvana
Nirvana by Lisah Nsanzugwanko is set in 2035, following a Mother who is trapped in a therapy lab. She needs to escape as fast as possible to save the destroyed relationships in her life. After a visit from a surprise guest, she desperately comes up with a plan to escape using the one thing the lab couldn't take away - her cultural identity. Nirvana is a blast from the future, it covers the quite relevant theme of Artificial intelligence whilst also engaging themes of entrapment, Colonialism and racism. |
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Oluwatoyin Awosanya
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Rahma Abdi Mohamed Alli
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Michelle T Clemens
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Olivia Graham-McNabb
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Kate Clow - Space Cowboy
While navigating their identity, and the strict rules they have abided by their entire life, Tae, a queer astronaut, must find a new planet where the remaining inhabitants of earth can move to before it's too late. Speaks on topics of eugenics, genocide, societal control, queerness |
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Belle Warner
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Simon Alteen
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Oluwatoyin Awosanya
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Michelle T Clemens
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