Playwrights Canada Press
Playwrights Canada Press is a Canadian publishing house founded in 1984 by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. It was incorporated in 2000 as an independent company.
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• Status — Active • Country — Canada • Headquarters — Toronto, Canada • Distribution — University of Toronto Press (Canada) Theatre Communications Group (US) Nick Hern Books (Europe & Australia) • Publications — Plays, Books • Topics — Theatre history, Critique, Biography • Genre — Drama • Owner — Playwrights Guild of Canada • Numemployees — 3 • Url — http: www.playwrightscanada.com/
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Notable books
• The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, Djanet Sears (2003) • Almighty Voice and His Wife, Daniel David Moses (1991) • Annie Mae's Movement, Yvette Nolan (1998) • The Crackwalker, Judith Thompson (1980) • The December Man (L'homme de décembre), Colleen Murphy (2007) • Drag Queens on Trial, Sky Gilbert (1994) • The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey (1999) • I, Claudia, Kristen Thomson (2001) • The Last Wife, Kate Hennig (2015) • Lilies, Michel Marc Bouchard, trans. Linda Gaboriau (1990) • Lion in the Streets, Judith Thompson (1992) • Maggie and Pierre, Linda Griffiths (1980) • Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte (2002) • The Melville Boys, Norm Foster (1984) • The Monument, Colleen Wagner (1996) • Palace of the End, Judith Thompson (2007) • Scorched, Wajdi Mouawad, trans. Linda Gaboriau (2005) • This is War, Hannah Moscovitch (2015) • Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Brad Fraser (1989) • Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline, George F. Walker (1979)
Awards and nominations
Awards and nominations
Playwrights Canada Press has been nominated for 86 Governor General's Awards, 82 for English-language Drama and 4 for French to English translation, resulting in 21 wins over its 33-year history.
Governor General's Award for English-language Drama
Governor General's Award for English-language Drama
• Year — Nominated work — Author — Result • 1981 § — Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers — Charles Tidler • Theatre of the Film Noir — George F. Walker • 1982 § — Clay — Lawrence Jeffery • Jennie's Story — Betty Lambert • 1984 § — White Biting Dog — Judith Thompson • 1985 § — Salt-water Moon — David French • Gone in the Burning Sun — Ken Mitchell • Criminals in Love — George F. Walker • 1986 § — Odd Jobs — Frank Moher • Doc — Sharon Pollock • Papers — Allan Stratton • 1987 — Prague — John Krizanc • Walt and Roy — Michael D.C. McKinlay • 1988 — Skin from Skin and Liars — Dennis Foon • 1990 — Scientific Americans — John Mighton • 1991 — The Trial of Judith K. — Sally Clark • Where is Kabuki? — Don Druick • 1992 — Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night — John Mighton • Serpent in the Sky — Dianne Warren • 1993 — The Saints and Apostles — Raymond Storey • 1994 — If We Are Women — Joanna McClelland Glass • 1995 — Three in the Back, Two in the Head — Jason Sherman • 1996 — The Little Years — John Mighton • Mad Boy Chronicle — Michael O'Brien • The Monument — Colleen Wagner • 1997 — Reading Hebron — Jason Sherman • Sled — Judith Thompson • 1998 — Not Spain — Richard Sanger • 1999 — The Drawer Boy — Michael Healey • Beating Heart Cadaver — Colleen Murphy • 2000 — Alien Creature — Linda Griffiths • It's All True — Jason Sherman • 2001 — Monsieur d'Eon — Mark Brownell • Building Jerusalem — Michael Redhill • An Acre of Time: The Play — Jason Sherman • The Harps of God — Kent Stetson • 2002 — The Gwendolyn Poems — Claudia Dey • The Shooting Stage — Michael MacLennan • 2003 — Rice Boy — Sunil Kuruvilla • Last Romantics — Michael MacLennan • Einstein's Gift — Vern Thiessen • 2004 — Robert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence — Robert Chafe • Rune Arlidge — Michael Healey • The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) — Mieko Ouchi • 2005 — Half Life — John Mighton • 2006 — Cast Iron — Lisa Codrington • I Still Love You — Daniel MacIvor • Adapt or Die: Plays New and Used — Jason Sherman • 2007 — In Gabriel's Kitchen — Salvatore Antonio • The Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay Black — Anosh Irani • Leo — Rosa Laborde • The December Man (L'homme de décembre) — Colleen Murphy • 2008 — Bone Cage — Catherine Banks • 10 Days on Earth — Ronnie Burkett • Palace of the End — Judith Thompson • 2009 — East of Berlin — Hannah Moscovitch • Talk — Michael Nathanson • 2010 — Afterimage — Robert Chafe • Scratch — Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman • Courageous — Michael Healey • Such Creatures — Judith Thompson • lady in the red dress — David Yee • 2011 — House of Many Tongues — Jonathan Garfinkel • If We Were Birds — Erin Shields • Gas Girls — Donna-Michelle St. Bernard • Lenin's Embalmers — Vern Thiessen • 2012 — It is Solved by Walking — Catherine Banks • The Romeo Initiative — Trina Davies • Brothel #9 — Anusree Roy • 2013 — Blood: A Scientific Romance — Meg Braem • Shakespeare's Nigga — Joseph Jomo Pierre • 2014 — The Secret Mask — Rick Chafe • That Elusive Spark — Janet Munsil • Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays — Jordan Tannahill • 2015 — The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble — Beth Graham • Mahmoud — Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis • carried away on the crest of a wave — David Yee • 2016 — Kill Me Now — Brad Fraser • Pig Girl — Colleen Murphy • A Man A Fish — Donna-Michelle St. Bernard • Concord Floral — Jordan Tannahill • 2017 — 1979 — Michael Healey • The Colony of Unrequited Dreams — Robert Chafe • Indian Arm — Hiro Kanagawa • The Virgin Trial — Kate Hennig • 2018 — Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom — Jordan Tannahill • Gertrude and Alice — Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja • Paradise Lost — Erin Shields • This Is How We Got Here — Keith Barker • 2019 — Other Side of the Game — Amanda Parris • What a Young Wife Ought to Know — Hannah Moscovitch • 2020 — Guarded Girls — Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman • Quick Bright Things — Christopher Cook • Sound of the Beast — Donna-Michelle St. Bernard • 2021 — Selfie — Christine Quintana • Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes — Hannah Moscovitch • Take d Milk, Nah? — Jivesh Parasram § as Playwrights Canada
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
• Year — Nominated work — Author — Result • 2007 — Carole Fréchette: Two Plays: John and Beatrice; Helen’s Necklace — John Murrell • 2010 — Forests — Linda Gaboriau • 2012 — The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of You — John Murrell • The List — Shelley Tepperman • 2019 — Birds of a Kind — Linda Gaboriau • 2020 — Amaryllis & Little Witch — Alexis Diamond
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- 1.Playwrights Canada Press - Playwrights Canada Press.
- 2.Playwrights Canada Press. About Playwrights Canada Press.
- 3.Canada Council for the Arts. CUMULATIVE LIST OF WINNERS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES GAGNANTES ET DES GAGNANTS DES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL.
- 4.Canada Council for the Arts. CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES FINALISTES POUR LES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL.
- 5.Canada Council for the Arts. CUMULATIVE LIST OF WINNERS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES GAGNANTES ET DES GAGNANTS DES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL*.
- 6.Canada Council for the Arts. CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES FINALISTES POUR LES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL.
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