@WorkshopWest

We are a professional theatre company dedicated to the development, production, promotion, and presentation of Canadian playwrights and new Canadian works.

 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Joined June 2009
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"This is a story about orphans… and showtunes." BOY PLAYER by Frank Moher, an Audience Choice Award winner, makes its Edmonton debut Nov 4–15 at The Gateway Theatre. Pay What You Will. Only 9 performances! 🎟️ tickets.workshopwest.org #yegtheatre #yegarts
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What audiences in BC are saying about BOY PLAYER: "Moving, funny, everything that theatre should be." 🎭 The Audience Choice Award winner by Frank Moher plays Nov 4–15 at The Gateway Theatre. Pay What You Will, only 9 shows! 🎟️ tickets.workshopwest.org #yegtheatre #yegarts
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Our 2026/27 Season is here! 🎭 3 shows + a festival: Boy Player, Last Supper, Springboards & Billy Bishop Goes to War. Subscriptions are Pay What You Will, on sale now, and include Dark Monday VIP Club membership. 🖤 workshopwest.org #YEGtheatre
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Let's do the time warp again! 🕰️👄 We're screening The Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Gateway Theatre for one night only on October 31st. Choose your pleasure: 7:00 PM or 9:30 PM. Grab your tickets now at tickets.workshopwest.org. #RockyHorror #GatewayTheatreYEG
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Calling all art lovers 🎨 The Gateway Gallery is looking for a sponsor to champion local art. Your name on the gallery plaque, seen by every guest on their way to a show. Interested? Email [email protected] #yegarts #yeglocal
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Submissions are reviewed by our Dramaturg in Residence, Conni Massing. 📄 A full-length play is usually 50+ pages, or around 35–40 for a monologue 📧 submit, email a cover letter, résumé, synopsis, and an excerpt of up to 20 pages to [email protected] #yegtheatre
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Reading Service connects AB playwrights with our Assistant Dramaturg, Jessy Ardern, for 1-on-1 feedback on works in progress. 📅 October 15 to May 15 📝 1 draft per playwright, a stage play (no musicals, TV, or radio) 💸 The service is completely free workshopwest.org/script-subm…
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We open our season with @frankmoher ‘s Boy Player. “A spellbinding production that ticked every box.” -Audience Review, Western Edge Theatre, BC Moving, surprising, & unexpectedly funny, Boy Player is Frank’s true story as an orphaned child suddenly transplanted from YEG to NYC
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Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre retweeted
Liz Nicholls@lizonstageSep 15
'The Ties That Bind': @WorkshopWest announces a new season, with a new Conni Massing comedy, a Canadian classic, and a solo memoir by a Canadian star. A 12thnight PREVIEW: tinyurl.com/ycx6cdw6. #yegtheatre #yegarts
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Sponsor The Gateway Theatre Visit our website for more info: workshopwest.org/sponsor-the…
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Martin Galba, Managing Director, shares his thoughts and insights about our upcoming 2026.2027 Season, and why it’s entitled The Ties That Bind. tinyurl.com/vcrw8477 #canadianplays #canadiantheatre #yegtheatre #yegarts

2026.2027 Season Launch — Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre

Hosted by Martin Galba, Managing Director and Marie Gynane-Willis, Interim Board Chair

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THE TIES THAT BIND is the title of our 2026.2027 Season. Subscriptions are now on sale! Get yours today! Includes: 1 ticket to each of our MainStage shows. 1 ticket to each evening of our Springboards Festival and VIP access to you and your +1 to Dark Mondays Link in bio
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Subscriptions for our 2023/2024 season are now on sale! Prices are available in tiered rates to help support accessibility. For further purchase details please visit showpass.com/wwpt-season-sub… See you at The Gateway Theatre this year!
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Thank you @lizonstage for the wonderful preview of our 45th Theatre Season, "Borderlands: Encounters on the Outskirts". We are so excited to share with audiences these playwrights, their plays, and the rest of our season's fabulous company of artists!
Liz Nicholls@lizonstage12 Sep 2023
Close encounters in the borderlands: @WorkshopWest announces a new season, their 45th. Here's the 2023-2024 lineup (with annotations from artistic director @Heather_Inglis: tinyurl.com/5n7fkk2s #YEGtheatre #YEGarts #YEG
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Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre retweeted
CKUA Radio@ckuaradio2 Aug 2023
Tune in Wednesday, August 2 at 1:45pm MT when host @CKUATony speaks with playwright Michelle Robb about "Tell Us What Happened", a @WorkshopWest Playwrights' Theatre premiere. ckua.com/listen-live Missed the live broadcast? LIsten with OnDemand ➡️ ckua.com/tony
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Workshop West is thrilled to announce that @jdtkaczyk has joined WWPT in the role of General Manager! Jake brings impressive artistic and administrative expertise and a comprehensive knowledge of Canadian Theatre to Workshop West's business leadership. Welcome Jake! ❤️👏
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Congrats to all the nominees in the Multi-Media category! And also a special congrats to @Epic__Photos Ian Jackson for his brilliant work on Liam Salmon's SUBSCRIBE OR LIKE!
Sterling Awards@awards_sterling6 Jun 2023
Multi-Media Hugh Conacher, Network @citadeltheatre @MTCwinnipeg S Katy Tucker, Orphée+ @edmontonopera Matt Schuurman, 100 Words for Snow @NLTyeg T. Erin Gruber with Rebecca Cypher, The Space Between Stars @SmallMattersP @SkirtsAfire Ian Jackson, Subscribe or Like @WorkshopWest
A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the middle with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Multi-Media Design Hugh Conacher, Network (Citadel Theatre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) S Katy Tucker, Orphée+ (Edmonton Opera) Matt Schuurman, A Hundred Words for Snow (Northern Light Theatre) T. Erin Gruber with Rebecca Cypher, The Space Between Stars (Small Matters Productions/SkirtsAfire) Ian Jackson, Subscribe or Like (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre)

ALT A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the middle with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Multi-Media Design Hugh Conacher, Network (Citadel Theatre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) S Katy Tucker, Orphée+ (Edmonton Opera) Matt Schuurman, A Hundred Words for Snow (Northern Light Theatre) T. Erin Gruber with Rebecca Cypher, The Space Between Stars (Small Matters Productions/SkirtsAfire) Ian Jackson, Subscribe or Like (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre)

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Congrats to all the nominees! And to Darrin Hagen again, for his work on WWPTs UNSUNG: Tales From the Front Line. Darrin also conducted all the interviews with our health care subjects and used the material to create moving and utterly truthful one person performance pieces. 👏❤️
Sterling Awards@awards_sterling6 Jun 2023
Score Play/Musical Romeo Candido/Prison Dancer @citadeltheatre @prisondancer Hawksley Workman/Almost a Full Moon @citadeltheatre Simon Abbott&Byron Martin, Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer @Grindstoneyeg Farhad Khosravi, Anahita’s Republic (AuTash) Darrin Hagen/Unsung @WorkshopWest
A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the centre with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Score of a Play or Musical Romeo Candido, Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre/Prison Dancer Inc.) Hawksley Workman, Almost a Full Moon (Citadel Theatre) Simon Abbott and Byron Martin, Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer (Grindstone Theatre) Farhad Khosravi, Anahita’s Republic (AuTash Productions) Darrin Hagen, Unsung: Tales From the Front Line (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre)

ALT A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the centre with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Score of a Play or Musical Romeo Candido, Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre/Prison Dancer Inc.) Hawksley Workman, Almost a Full Moon (Citadel Theatre) Simon Abbott and Byron Martin, Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer (Grindstone Theatre) Farhad Khosravi, Anahita’s Republic (AuTash Productions) Darrin Hagen, Unsung: Tales From the Front Line (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre)

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Congratulations to our SUBSCRIBE OR LIKE Outstanding Sound Designer Darrin Hagen! His work is EVERYWHERE in this season. We are thrilled for him. ❤️
Sterling Awards@awards_sterling5 Jun 2023
Outstanding Sound Design Aaron Macri, Alina @Pyretic_Prod Dave Clarke, The Royale @citadeltheatre Daniela Fernandez, A Hundred Words for Snow @NLTyeg Darrin Hagen, Subscribe or Like @WorkshopWest Darrin Hagen and Morag Northey, The Innocence of Trees @Theatre_Network
A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the centre with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Sound Design Aaron Macri, Alina (Pyretic Productions) Dave Clarke, The Royale (Citadel Theatre) Daniela Fernandez, A Hundred Words for Snow (Northern Light Theatre) Darrin Hagen, Subscribe or Like (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre) Darrin Hagen and Morag Northey, The Innocence of Trees (Theatre Network)

ALT A dark blue background with an image of the peach Sterling statuette in the centre with the text Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2022/23 Nominees Outstanding Sound Design Aaron Macri, Alina (Pyretic Productions) Dave Clarke, The Royale (Citadel Theatre) Daniela Fernandez, A Hundred Words for Snow (Northern Light Theatre) Darrin Hagen, Subscribe or Like (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre) Darrin Hagen and Morag Northey, The Innocence of Trees (Theatre Network)

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Thank you for the twitter love @lizonstage ! The show works itself into one's mind and being and lives there for a while. We love it when art does this :)
Liz Nicholls@lizonstage5 Jun 2023
Can't stop thinking about this new social media thriller, in a digital world where 'real' isn't an either/or choice: Liam Salmon's Subscribe Or Like at @WorkshopWest, a 12thnight REVIEW, tinyurl.com/26f8d2kk #yegtheatre #yegarts #yegwhere
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