10:00am-2:00pm

This workshop will explore some building blocks of playwriting: developing characters and crafting dialogue. Through a series of short writing exercises, participants will have the opportunity to put words on the page and share with the group.

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Mark Crawford is one of Canada’s most-produced playwrights. His plays include Bed and Breakfast, The Birds and the Bees, The New Canadian Curling Club, and The Golden Anniversaries which debuted at the Blyth Festival in 2024. His plays have been seen at companies such as Theatre Aquarius, Arts Club, Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Western Canada Theatre, Theatre Orangeville, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Raised near Glencoe, Mark currently resides in Stratford.