Banff playRites Colony 2006

The Banff playRites Colony is a residential program allowing playwrights the opportunity to develop a work with the support of dramaturges, and shared access to a small resident company of professional actors/readers*. The Colony is an artist-defined program, meeting the specific needs of each participant. Playwrights select the dramaturges with whom they wish to work. When the dramaturge is not available, the Colony will, upon the playwright’s request, appoint a resident dramaturge to work on the project. Creative dialogue is encouraged among playwrights at different stages of their careers, and of their writing process.

Eligible submissions include:

• works proposed by emerging or established playwrights;
• works proposed by theatres and/or play development centres;
• works proposed by Canadian translators who are translating Canadian and non-Canadian plays into English;
• previously produced French-language plays for translation into English by Canadian translators.

The 2006 Banff playRites Colony is presented through an alliance of The Banff Centre, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Alberta Theatre Projects (through the generous support of Ann J. Brown), and is assisted by La Maison Antoine Vitez in France.