Vern Thiessen: Live and Up Close
In January, award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen will be making a special appearance in Waterloo. He’ll be reading from his play Lenin’s Embalmers in the intimate setting of The Button Factory. This is an unique opportunity to meet one of Canada’s most successful and widely-produced playwrights and hear him read from his own work. Theatre lovers, playwrights [...]
Piece/Meal Reading Series: Fresh, New Plays Served HOT
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre continues its popular piece/meal reading series with an exciting, expanded version. We’ll be serving up a light meal and four new, full-length theatre pieces — all of which originated from our playwright centre. The smorgasbord of plays includes a mix of works from playwrights across the province and is [...]
2011 24-Hour Playwriting Contest Results
Armed with only a page of notes, a computer and their imaginations, playwrights from across Ontario spent 24 non-stop hours this past weekend fighting off sleep and pounding out an original play. The third annual competition proved to be the most challenging yet. “The breadth of submissions was impressive, which made our job very difficult,” [...]
Possibility Party – Videos
Missed the Possibility Party? Thanks to the miracles of the digital age, you can still attend. The WCAC blog posted six, count ‘em six, short videos from our big bash. While the cake is long gone, you can recapture the fun through a general recap and catch some of the acts: Ballroom dancers Trevor Copp [...]
Possibility Party
Waterloo Region is bursting with possibilities and not just within our world-renowned tech sector. Proving size doesn’t matter, the small but influential Pat the Dog Playwright Centre recently received a grant under the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Province-Wide Program — the first Waterloo Region Arts centre to do so since 2004. To celebrate all cultural movements [...]
24-Hour Playwriting Contest Winner
After 24 non-top hours of typing, pacing, deleting and caffeinating, our participants are tired. But we have a winner. Congratulations to Matthew Heiti of Sudbury for Receiver of Wreck. Second place goes to Evan Tsitsias of Mississauga for Back, while J.E. Anderson of Ottawa placed third for The Gods and Calvin Brewer. Wendy Philpott, one [...]
15/60: Play in an Hour for Kids
How Pat the Dog Playwright Centre Spent Our Summer Non-Vacation The legacy from Spotlight 2009 lives on. Pat the Dog Playwright Centre’s 15/60 Play-in-an-Hour Workshop for kids was such a success we took it on the road. The year, as part of the International Windsor Fringe Festival, facilitators Kevin White and Molly Reisman had kids [...]
K-W Arts Award – Gowlings Literary Award Winner
There’s lots to celebrate. Last week, not only did Pat the Dog Playwright Center sign on our 100th member, we won the Gowlings Literary Award at the 22nd Annual K-W Arts Awards on June 6th. Being first-time nominees, we were taken by surprise. Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes and had their fingers crossed [...]
Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is pleased to announce we’ve been chosen to present the playwright reading series for this year’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival. piece/meal is a brunch-time series providing an intimate, playful introduction to fresh new plays in development from intriguing new theatre artists. All excerpts are from full-length plays currently under development [...]
The Barrel Project
A Multi-Media Collective Theatre Piece for the Waterloo Community For more than a decade, a pyramid of Seagram’s barrels sat at the corner of Erb and Caroline Street in downtown Waterloo. In August 2009, the landmark barrels went up for grabs. Within hours, the kegs had found new homes but left many questions. What happened [...]
Pat the Dog’s New Website
Pop the cork and pass the glasses! Pat the Dog is celebrating our spiffy new website. It’s got categories and slideshows and a handy downloadable membership form. With the latest news right on the front page, you’ll always be up to date on what’s happening. And if you miss something? Poke about the archives. Between [...]
Pat the Dog’s New e-Bulletin
Pat the Dog now has an e-Bulletin. Subscription is free. All you have to do is sign up. We’ll deliver news about local and national theatres, contests, calls for submissions, workshops, professional development opportunities, special events and more. And we promise never to sell, rent, lend, share or give away your email address. The primate [...]
24-Hour Playwriting Contest Winners
Waterloo, we have a winner! Allowed only a page of notes, a computer and their imaginations, playwrights from across Ontario spent 24 non-stop hours drinking coffee and pounding out an original play. Some wrote from the comfort of their homes, while others brought their laptops to Kitchener City Hall and wrote in the rotunda. After [...]
International Headquarters Open for Business
Whiteboard? Check. File folders? Check. Pens? Check. Mandatory air-cleansing plant? Nope. We’re still setting up in our office. But with floor-to-ceiling books, a view of the railroad tracks and an organic coffee shop nearby, we’ll be just fine.
