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.
Notable books
- The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, Djanet Sears
- Almighty Voice and His Wife, Daniel David Moses
- Annie Mae's Movement, Yvette Nolan
- The Crackwalker, Judith Thompson
- The December Man , Colleen Murphy
- Drag Queens on Trial, Sky Gilbert
- The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey
- I, Claudia, Kristen Thomson
- The Last Wife, Kate Hennig
- Lilies, Michel Marc Bouchard, trans. Linda Gaboriau
- Lion in the Streets, Judith Thompson
- Maggie and Pierre, Linda Griffiths
- Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte
- The Melville Boys, Norm Foster
- The Monument, Colleen Wagner
- Palace of the End, Judith Thompson
- Scorched, Wajdi Mouawad, trans. Linda Gaboriau
- This is War, Hannah Moscovitch
- Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Brad Fraser
- Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline, George F. Walker
Awards and nominations
Governor General's Award for English-language Drama
Year | Nominated work | Author | Result |
1981§ | Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers | Charles Tidler | |
1981§ | Theatre of the Film Noir | George F. Walker | |
1982§ | Clay | Lawrence Jeffery | |
1982§ | Jennie's Story | Betty Lambert | |
1984§ | White Biting Dog | Judith Thompson | |
1985§ | Salt-water Moon | David French | |
1985§ | Gone in the Burning Sun | Ken Mitchell | |
1985§ | Criminals in Love | George F. Walker | |
1986§ | Odd Jobs | Frank Moher | |
1986§ | Doc | Sharon Pollock | |
1986§ | Papers | Allan Stratton | |
1987 | Prague | John Krizanc | |
1987 | 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 | |
1991 | Where is Kabuki? | Don Druick | |
1992 | Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night | John Mighton | |
1992 | 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 | |
1996 | Mad Boy Chronicle | Michael O'Brien | |
1996 | The Monument | Colleen Wagner | |
1997 | Reading Hebron | Jason Sherman | |
1997 | Sled | Judith Thompson | |
1998 | Not Spain | Richard Sanger | |
1999 | The Drawer Boy | Michael Healey | |
1999 | Beating Heart Cadaver | Colleen Murphy | |
2000 | Alien Creature | Linda Griffiths | |
2000 | It's All True | Jason Sherman | |
2001 | Monsieur d'Eon | Mark Brownell | |
2001 | Building Jerusalem | Michael Redhill | |
2001 | An Acre of Time: The Play | Jason Sherman | |
2001 | The Harps of God | Kent Stetson | |
2002 | The Gwendolyn Poems | Claudia Dey | |
2002 | The Shooting Stage | Michael MacLennan | |
2003 | Rice Boy | Sunil Kuruvilla | |
2003 | Last Romantics | Michael MacLennan | |
2003 | Einstein's Gift | Vern Thiessen | |
2004 | Robert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence | Robert Chafe | |
2004 | Rune Arlidge | Michael Healey | |
2004 | The Red Priest | Mieko Ouchi | |
2005 | Half Life | John Mighton | |
2006 | Cast Iron | Lisa Codrington | |
2006 | I Still Love You | Daniel MacIvor | |
2006 | Adapt or Die: Plays New and Used | Jason Sherman | |
2007 | In Gabriel's Kitchen | Salvatore Antonio | |
2007 | The Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay Black | Anosh Irani | |
2007 | Leo | Rosa Laborde | |
2007 | The December Man | Colleen Murphy | |
2008 | Bone Cage | Catherine Banks | |
2008 | 10 Days on Earth | Ronnie Burkett | |
2008 | Palace of the End | Judith Thompson | |
2009 | East of Berlin | Hannah Moscovitch | |
2009 | Talk | Michael Nathanson | |
2010 | Afterimage | Robert Chafe | |
2010 | Scratch | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | |
2010 | Courageous | Michael Healey | |
2010 | Such Creatures | Judith Thompson | |
2010 | lady in the red dress | David Yee | |
2011 | House of Many Tongues | Jonathan Garfinkel | |
2011 | If We Were Birds | Erin Shields | |
2011 | Gas Girls | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | |
2011 | Lenin's Embalmers | Vern Thiessen | |
2012 | It is Solved by Walking | Catherine Banks | |
2012 | The Romeo Initiative | Trina Davies | |
2012 | Brothel #9 | Anusree Roy | |
2013 | Blood: A Scientific Romance | Meg Braem | |
2013 | Shakespeare's Nigga | Joseph Jomo Pierre | |
2014 | The Secret Mask | Rick Chafe | |
2014 | That Elusive Spark | Janet Munsil | |
2014 | Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays | Jordan Tannahill | |
2015 | The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble | Beth Graham | |
2015 | Mahmoud | Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis | |
2015 | carried away on the crest of a wave | David Yee | |
2016 | Kill Me Now | Brad Fraser | |
2016 | Pig Girl | Colleen Murphy | |
2016 | A Man A Fish | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | |
2016 | Concord Floral | Jordan Tannahill | |
2017 | 1979 | Michael Healey | |
2017 | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | Robert Chafe | |
2017 | Indian Arm | Hiro Kanagawa | |
2017 | The Virgin Trial | Kate Hennig | |
2018 | Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom | Jordan Tannahill | |
2018 | Gertrude and Alice | Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja | |
2018 | Paradise Lost | Erin Shields | |
2018 | This Is How We Got Here | Keith Barker | |
2019 | Other Side of the Game | Amanda Parris | |
2019 | What a Young Wife Ought to Know | Hannah Moscovitch | |
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§as Playwrights Canada
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 | |
2012 | The List | Shelley Tepperman | |
2019 | Birds of a Kind | Linda Gaboriau | |
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