# 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 (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

| Year | Nominated work | Author | Result |
| 1981$^§$ | Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers | Charles Tidler | Nominated |
| 1981$^§$ | Theatre of the Film Noir | George F. Walker | Nominated |
| 1982$^§$ | Clay | Lawrence Jeffery | Nominated |
| 1982$^§$ | Jennie's Story | Betty Lambert | Nominated |
| 1984$^§$ | White Biting Dog | Judith Thompson | Won |
| 1985$^§$ | Salt-water Moon | David French | Nominated |
| 1985$^§$ | Gone in the Burning Sun | Ken Mitchell | Nominated |
| 1985$^§$ | Criminals in Love | George F. Walker | Won |
| 1986$^§$ | Odd Jobs | Frank Moher | Nominated |
| 1986$^§$ | Doc | Sharon Pollock | Won |
| 1986$^§$ | Papers | Allan Stratton | Nominated |
| 1987 | Prague | John Krizanc | Won |
| 1987 | 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 |
| 1991 | Where is Kabuki? | Don Druick | Nominated |
| 1992 | Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night | John Mighton | Won |
| 1992 | 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 |
| 1996 | Mad Boy Chronicle | Michael O'Brien | Nominated |
| 1996 | The Monument | Colleen Wagner | Won |
| 1997 | Reading Hebron | Jason Sherman | Nominated |
| 1997 | Sled | Judith Thompson | Nominated |
| 1998 | Not Spain | Richard Sanger | Nominated |
| 1999 | The Drawer Boy | Michael Healey | Won |
| 1999 | Beating Heart Cadaver | Colleen Murphy | Nominated |
| 2000 | Alien Creature | Linda Griffiths | Nominated |
| 2000 | It's All True | Jason Sherman | Nominated |
| 2001 | Monsieur d'Eon | Mark Brownell | Nominated |
| 2001 | Building Jerusalem | Michael Redhill | Nominated |
| 2001 | An Acre of Time: The Play | Jason Sherman | Nominated |
| 2001 | The Harps of God | Kent Stetson | Won |
| 2002 | The Gwendolyn Poems | Claudia Dey | Nominated |
| 2002 | The Shooting Stage | Michael MacLennan | Nominated |
| 2003 | Rice Boy | Sunil Kuruvilla | Nominated |
| 2003 | Last Romantics | Michael MacLennan | Nominated |
| 2003 | Einstein's Gift | Vern Thiessen | Won |
| 2004 | Robert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence | Robert Chafe | Nominated |
| 2004 | Rune Arlidge | Michael Healey | Nominated |
| 2004 | The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) | Mieko Ouchi | Nominated |
| 2005 | Half Life | John Mighton | Won |
| 2006 | Cast Iron | Lisa Codrington | Nominated |
| 2006 | I Still Love You | Daniel MacIvor | Won |
| 2006 | Adapt or Die: Plays New and Used | Jason Sherman | Nominated |
| 2007 | In Gabriel's Kitchen | Salvatore Antonio | Nominated |
| 2007 | The Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay Black | Anosh Irani | Nominated |
| 2007 | Leo | Rosa Laborde | Nominated |
| 2007 | The December Man (L'homme de décembre) | Colleen Murphy | Won |
| 2008 | Bone Cage | Catherine Banks | Won |
| 2008 | 10 Days on Earth | Ronnie Burkett | Nominated |
| 2008 | Palace of the End | Judith Thompson | Nominated |
| 2009 | East of Berlin | Hannah Moscovitch | Nominated |
| 2009 | Talk | Michael Nathanson | Nominated |
| 2010 | Afterimage | Robert Chafe | Won |
| 2010 | Scratch | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Nominated |
| 2010 | Courageous | Michael Healey | Nominated |
| 2010 | Such Creatures | Judith Thompson | Nominated |
| 2010 | lady in the red dress | David Yee | Nominated |
| 2011 | House of Many Tongues | Jonathan Garfinkel | Nominated |
| 2011 | If We Were Birds | Erin Shields | Won |
| 2011 | Gas Girls | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated |
| 2011 | Lenin's Embalmers | Vern Thiessen | Nominated |
| 2012 | It is Solved by Walking | Catherine Banks | Won |
| 2012 | The Romeo Initiative | Trina Davies | Nominated |
| 2012 | Brothel #9 | Anusree Roy | Nominated |
| 2013 | Blood: A Scientific Romance | Meg Braem | Nominated |
| 2013 | Shakespeare's Nigga | Joseph Jomo Pierre | Nominated |
| 2014 | The Secret Mask | Rick Chafe | Nominated |
| 2014 | That Elusive Spark | Janet Munsil | Nominated |
| 2014 | Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays | Jordan Tannahill | Won |
| 2015 | The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble | Beth Graham | Nominated |
| 2015 | Mahmoud | Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis | Nominated |
| 2015 | carried away on the crest of a wave | David Yee | Won |
| 2016 | Kill Me Now | Brad Fraser | Nominated |
| 2016 | Pig Girl | Colleen Murphy | Won |
| 2016 | A Man A Fish | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated |
| 2016 | Concord Floral | Jordan Tannahill | Nominated |
| 2017 | 1979 | Michael Healey | Nominated |
| 2017 | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | Robert Chafe | Nominated |
| 2017 | Indian Arm | Hiro Kanagawa | Won |
| 2017 | The Virgin Trial | Kate Hennig | Nominated |
| 2018 | Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom | Jordan Tannahill | Won |
| 2018 | Gertrude and Alice | Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja | Nominated |
| 2018 | Paradise Lost | Erin Shields | Nominated |
| 2018 | This Is How We Got Here | Keith Barker | Nominated |
| 2019 | Other Side of the Game | Amanda Parris | Won |
| 2019 | What a Young Wife Ought to Know | Hannah Moscovitch | Nominated |
| 2020 | Guarded Girls | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Nominated |
| 2020 | Quick Bright Things | Christopher Cook | Nominated |
| 2020 | Sound of the Beast | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Nominated |
| 2021 | Selfie | Christine Quintana | Nominated |
| 2021 | Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes | Hannah Moscovitch | Won |
| 2021 | Take d Milk, Nah? | Jivesh Parasram | Nominated |
$^§$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 | Nominated |
| 2010 | Forests | Linda Gaboriau | Won |
| 2012 | The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of You | John Murrell | Nominated |
| 2012 | The List | Shelley Tepperman | Nominated |
| 2019 | Birds of a Kind | Linda Gaboriau | Won |
| 2020 | Amaryllis & Little Witch | Alexis Diamond | Nominated |