Artistic & Professional Development

Writeous Acts: Playwriting Program

Date	September 1 - 21, 2025
Location	524 Oakwood Ave, Toronto, ON M6E 2X1

Write your next play with us.

We’re launching a brand new playwriting program, where we’ll welcome six emerging Black stage playwrights and dramatists to receive guidance on the drafting of an original stage play.

Focusing on storytelling and narrative theatre, Writeous Acts will empower emerging writers to learn how to express their unique perspectives, narratives, emotions into stage writing through lessons on story, character development, stage direction and more. Each week, writers will meet with facilitator and award-winning theatre director Jordan Laffrenier to develop this piece.

Classes will take place on Mondays from 6:30-8:30pm.

Applications close on Sunday, Sept. 21st.

Schedule

Week 1 – Monday, October 6, 2025
Week 2 – Tuesday, October 14, 2025 *Due to Thanksgiving Monday
Week 3 – Monday, October 20, 2025
Week 4 – Monday, October 27, 2025
Week 5 – Monday, November 03, 2025
Week 6 – Monday, November 10, 2025
Week 7 – Monday, November 17, 2025
Week 8 – Monday, November 24, 2025
Week 9 – Monday, December 1, 2025
Week 10 – Monday, December 8, 2025

Meet Your Facilitator

Jordan Laffrenier

Jordan Laffrenier is an award winning director, producer, playwright, dramaturg and educator. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Canadian Stage and Prime Mover Theatre Company. He has held many musical theatre development roles in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto, including Amélie on Broadway, Paradise Square/ Hard Times (Berkeley Repertory Theatre California), Sousatzka (Tiberius Entertainment) and now as dramaturg for Cahoots BLACK PANTHER program.

As the founding Artistic Director of Then They Fight Theatre, a dramaturgically based theatre company dedicated to developing new work from the initial spark of an idea into a fully realized production. He is an advocate of theatre that supports the community on and off stage and has partnered theatre productions directly with local charities such as The Mental Health Coalition in Hamilton and Vibe Arts (where he is an artist mentor).