Playwrights Lab 2027 — Two-Week Fully Funded Residency for Canadian Playwrights, Banff Centre
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, CanadaFree: the link to apply at the organiser and a reminder before the deadline.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta runs artist residencies and training programs. The Playwrights Lab gives Canadian playwrights time, space and mentorship to develop new plays.
Benefits
A two-week residency to develop a new or in-progress script with experienced faculty: emerging playwrights get structured time with a faculty mentor, established playwrights work more independently, with lectures, Q&As and peer exchange. The Banff Centre Arts Scholarship covers the full cost of… Read more
Eligibility
Canadian citizens and permanent residents writing plays in English, at all stages of their careers (Indigenous candidates under the Jay Treaty are encouraged). Two streams: emerging (under 5 years of practice and fewer than 2 professionally produced plays) and established. Collaborations are… Read more
Dates & details
- Deadline
- 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time
- Programme dates
- 10–22 May 2027
- Costs to the artist
- Travel to Banff
Free: the link to apply at the organiser and a reminder before the deadline.