page_title: Playwrights Guild of Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Playwrights Guild of Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Official logo for Playwrights Guild of Canada
context_page_description: Playwrights Guild of Canada is a registered national arts service association mandated to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage. It was founded in 1972 as the Playwrights Co-op. The main purpose was to publish and distribute scripts to encourage more productions of Canadian plays. Since then, it has grown and now provides programs and services for playwrights across the country, and now includes more than 900 playwrights. PGC provides promotional and advocacy programs and services for the creative rights of Canadian playwrights.
  Through its independently run subsidiary, Playwrights Canada Press, which was established in 2002, PGC is a primary source for unpublished Canadian plays, as well as information regarding performance rights.
  To help support and advance Canadian playwriting, PGC offers the following services to its members:
  Publication of CanScene, PGC's monthly newsletter, which includes calls for submissions, jobs and other opportunities;
context_section_description: Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) is a registered national arts service association mandated to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage. It was founded in 1972 as the Playwrights Co-op. The main purpose was to publish and distribute scripts to encourage more productions of Canadian plays. Since then, it has grown and now provides programs and services for playwrights across the country, and now includes more than 900 playwrights. PGC provides promotional and advocacy programs and services for the creative rights of Canadian playwrights.
  Through its independently run subsidiary, Playwrights Canada Press, which was established in 2002, PGC is a primary source for unpublished Canadian plays, as well as information regarding performance rights.
  To help support and advance Canadian playwriting, PGC offers the following services to its members:
  Publication of CanScene, PGC's monthly newsletter, which includes calls for submissions, jobs and other opportunities;
  Promotion of Canadian playwrights via print publications, the PGC website, social media networks, and other means;
  Advertising, selling, and distributing published and unpublished plays;
  Administering amateur production rights;
  Facilitating the Canada Council Readings Program, which creates opportunities for organizations such as universities, libraries and community groups to invite Canadian playwrights to read in public venues by paying the playwright's reading fees and subsidizing their travel expenses;
  Professional development workshops;
  And overseeing member enrollment in the AFBS RRSP Investment Plan and the Writer's Coalition Insurance Program.
  PGC also publishes CanRevue, an electronic catalogue of Canadian Copyscript plays, on a monthly timetable. CanRevue promotes new Canadian plays and is sometimes released as a special edition pertaining to genre or geographical region. In 2011, PGC added a section within CanRevue entitled "Stage Ready". This is intended to narrow the gap between a written work and a production, and allows members to send PGC plays that have not yet been produced, but are ready to be promoted for the stage. CanRevue is sent out to over two hundred theatres (both professional and amateur) and to schools across Canada.
caption: Official logo for Playwrights Guild of Canada
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