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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984; 40 years ago (1984) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Headquarters location | Toronto, Canada |
| Distribution | University of Toronto Press (Canada) Theatre Communications Group (US) Nick Hern Books (Europe & Australia) |
| Publication types | Plays, Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Theatre history, Critique, Biography |
| Fiction genres | Drama |
| Owner(s) | Playwrights Guild of Canada |
| No. of employees | 3 |
| Official website | www |
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 (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
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
Main article: Governor General's Award for English-language drama| Year | Nominated work | Author | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers | Charles Tidler | Nominated |
| Theatre of the Film Noir | George F. Walker | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Clay | Lawrence Jeffery | Nominated |
| Jennie's Story | Betty Lambert | Nominated | |
| 1984 | White Biting Dog | Judith Thompson | Won |
| 1985 | Salt-water Moon | David French | Nominated |
| Gone in the Burning Sun | Ken Mitchell | Nominated | |
| Criminals in Love | George F. Walker | Won | |
| 1986 | Odd Jobs | Frank Moher | Nominated |
| Doc | Sharon Pollock | Won | |
| Papers | Allan Stratton | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Prague | John Krizanc | Won |
| Walt and Roy | Michael D.C. McKinlay | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Skin from Skin and Liars | Dennis Foon | Nominated |
| 1990 | Scientific Americans | John Mighton | Nominated |
| 1991 | The Trial of Judith K. | Sally Clark | Nominated |
| Where is Kabuki? | Don Druick | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night | John Mighton | Won |
| Serpent in the Sky | Dianne Warren | Nominated | |
| 1993 | The Saints and Apostles | Raymond Storey | Nominated |
| 1994 | If We Are Women | Joanna McClelland Glass | Nominated |
| 1995 | Three in the Back, Two in the Head | Jason Sherman | Won |
| 1996 | The Little Years | John Mighton | Nominated |
| Mad Boy Chronicle | Michael O'Brien | Nominated | |
| The Monument | Colleen Wagner | Won | |
| 1997 | Reading Hebron | Jason Sherman | Nominated |
| Sled | Judith Thompson | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Not Spain | Richard Sanger | Nominated |
| 1999 | The Drawer Boy | Michael Healey | Won |
| Beating Heart Cadaver | Colleen Murphy | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Alien Creature | Linda Griffiths | Nominated |
| It's All True | Jason Sherman | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Monsieur d'Eon | Mark Brownell | Nominated |
| Building Jerusalem | Michael Redhill | Nominated | |
| An Acre of Time: The Play | Jason Sherman | Nominated | |
| The Harps of God | Kent Stetson | Won | |
| 2002 | The Gwendolyn Poems | Claudia Dey | Nominated |
| The Shooting Stage | Michael MacLennan | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Rice Boy | Sunil Kuruvilla | Nominated |
| Last Romantics | Michael MacLennan | Nominated | |
| Einstein's Gift | Vern Thiessen | Won | |
| 2004 | Robert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence | Robert Chafe | Nominated |
| Rune Arlidge | Michael Healey | Nominated | |
| The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) | Mieko Ouchi | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Half Life | John Mighton | Won |
| 2006 | Cast Iron | Lisa Codrington | Nominated |
| I Still Love You | Daniel MacIvor | Won | |
| Adapt or Die: Plays New and Used | Jason Sherman | Nominated | |
| 2007 | In Gabriel's Kitchen | Salvatore Antonio | Nominated |
| The Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay Black | Anosh Irani | Nominated | |
| Leo | Rosa Laborde | Nominated | |
| The December Man (L'homme de décembre) | Colleen Murphy | Won | |
| 2008 | Bone Cage | Catherine Banks | Won |
| 10 Days on Earth | Ronnie Burkett | Nominated | |
| Palace of the End | Judith Thompson | Nominated | |
| 2009 | East of Berlin | Hannah Moscovitch | Nominated |
| Talk | Michael Nathanson | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Afterimage | Robert Chafe | Won |
| Scratch | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Nominated | |
| Courageous | Michael Healey | Nominated | |
| Such Creatures | Judith Thompson | Nominated | |
| lady in the red dress | David Yee | Nominated | |
| 2011 | House of Many Tongues | Jonathan Garfinkel | Nominated |
| If We Were Birds | Erin Shields | Won | |
| Gas Girls | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated | |
| Lenin's Embalmers | Vern Thiessen | Nominated | |
| 2012 | It is Solved by Walking | Catherine Banks | Won |
| The Romeo Initiative | Trina Davies | Nominated | |
| Brothel #9 | Anusree Roy | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Blood: A Scientific Romance | Meg Braem | Nominated |
| Shakespeare's Nigga | Joseph Jomo Pierre | Nominated | |
| 2014 | The Secret Mask | Rick Chafe | Nominated |
| That Elusive Spark | Janet Munsil | Nominated | |
| Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays | Jordan Tannahill | Won | |
| 2015 | The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble | Beth Graham | Nominated |
| Mahmoud | Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis | Nominated | |
| carried away on the crest of a wave | David Yee | Won | |
| 2016 | Kill Me Now | Brad Fraser | Nominated |
| Pig Girl | Colleen Murphy | Won | |
| A Man A Fish | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated | |
| Concord Floral | Jordan Tannahill | Nominated | |
| 2017 | 1979 | Michael Healey | Nominated |
| The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | Robert Chafe | Nominated | |
| Indian Arm | Hiro Kanagawa | Won | |
| The Virgin Trial | Kate Hennig | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom | Jordan Tannahill | Won |
| Gertrude and Alice | Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja | Nominated | |
| Paradise Lost | Erin Shields | Nominated | |
| This Is How We Got Here | Keith Barker | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Other Side of the Game | Amanda Parris | Won |
| What a Young Wife Ought to Know | Hannah Moscovitch | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Guarded Girls | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Nominated |
| Quick Bright Things | Christopher Cook | Nominated | |
| Sound of the Beast | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Selfie | Christine Quintana | Nominated |
| Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes | Hannah Moscovitch | Won | |
| Take d Milk, Nah? | Jivesh Parasram | Nominated |
as Playwrights Canada
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
Main article: 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 | Nominated |
| 2010 | Forests | Linda Gaboriau | Won |
| 2012 | The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of You | John Murrell | Nominated |
| The List | Shelley Tepperman | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Birds of a Kind | Linda Gaboriau | Won |
| 2020 | Amaryllis & Little Witch | Alexis Diamond | Nominated |
See also
References
- "Playwrights Canada Press - Playwrights Canada Press". Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- "About Playwrights Canada Press". Playwrights Canada Press. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- "CUMULATIVE LIST OF WINNERS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES GAGNANTES ET DES GAGNANTS DES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- "CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES FINALISTES POUR LES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- "CUMULATIVE LIST OF WINNERS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES GAGNANTES ET DES GAGNANTS DES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL*" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- "CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS / LISTE CUMULATIVE DES FINALISTES POUR LES PRIX LITTÉRAIRES DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
