Services

MAP offers various programs and resources to support playwrights and playwriting in Manitoba.

Seminars

Noted playwrights, directors, and dramaturges explore the art, the craft, and the business of playwriting. Check out a schedule of upcoming seminars.

Workshops and Readings

Playwrights work with actors, directors, and dramaturges to develop their scripts. Contact Rory for more information. See also...

Public Readings

Hear established and emerging playwrights read from their work in a series of monthly play readings organized by MAP in partnership with Aqua Books.

Open Door

The Open Door is where playwrights get to hear their work-in-progress read by professional actors, with an opportunity for feedback from the audience. One of MAP's most popular activities.

Scirocco Drama Manitoba Highschool Playwriting Contest

The Highschool Playwriting Contest - a panel of judges chooses the best play's written by Manitoba students. Professional playwrights and directors help to stage a performance of the short-listed plays at the MTC Warehouse, and the audience picks the winner.

Harry S. Rintoul Award

The Harry Rintoul Award recognizes the best Manitoba play at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.

Sidney and Margaret Jarvis Playwrights Resource Centre

The Jarvis Centre is MAP's library/archive/and theatre resource centre aimed at the community.

Rory Runnells Studio

MAP's rehearsal and performance space is available to rent by theatre companies.

Website

The MAP website is maintained as a service to Manitoba's playwrights and a source of information on playwriting in Manitoba. If you have comments or suggestions for content, please contact the office

Links

Online resources and links to other playwright organizations and development bodies.