Indigenous Theatre Dramaturgy

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Williams, Kenneth

• SSHRC PEG awarded 2018:The project will create a partnership between the University of Alberta's Drama Department and Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, to create a methodology of dramaturgy for new plays by the Indigenous playwrights, through an innovative week-long development process. Workshop West Playwrights Theatre (WWPT) is a well-known and respected centre for new play development in Alberta. They have recently began reaching out to the Indigenous community near Edmonton to develop new playwrights but don't have any Indigenous leadership or resources to reach larger Indigenous community across Canada. The goal of the partnership is create an alliance between the Department of Drama and WWPT that will develop a workshop model specifically for Indigenous playwrights with dramaturges from the Indigenous community, through work on four new Indigenous plays. The project will invite an established Indigenous dramaturge who will mentor local, less-experienced dramaturges for new Indigenous plays.

• Date created

  2018-01-06

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Partnership Engage Grant
  • PEG
  • SSHRC
  • Playwriting
  • Indigenous
  • Dramaturgy
  • New Play Development
  • Western Canada/North America
  • Central Canada

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-tghb-s291

• License

  ©️Williams, Kenneth. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2021.