Mollie Garrett is a playwright and dramaturge based in Toronto. As an artist Garrett is interested in text-based creation processes and the inclusion of accessibility dramaturgy in the creative process. She is curious about how audience engagement is considered during the creation process and believes that joy and humor can be our most radical tools for change. In 2018 she completed an MA in playwrighting and Dramaturgy at RADA and stayed in London until the pandemic brought her home to Toronto. Her playwrighting has been supported across Ontario by the Toronto Arts Council Ontario Arts Council, Theatre Gargantua, Tottering Biped Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Green Light Arts, and Tarragon Theatre. She had been produced within the larger anthology works of Urban ARTeries (Theatre Gargantua) and Play This: Hamilton (Tottering Biped Theatre). In 2023 with support from the TAC, Green Light Arts and Tarragon Theatre she completed her first full-length play and hosted a workshop and reading at Factory Theatre. While living in London she started two new-work festivals under the banner, The Search for Blue Theatre and assisted in the curation and facilitation of dozens of emerging playwright's creation processes as Festival Dramaturge. She has facilitated new play, production and adaptation dramaturgy processes on numerous projects, supporting artists and creative processes at Theatre Gargantua, Landor Space, CentrE17, Theatre Royal Haymarket and Camden People's Theatre. Since moving home to Toronto post-pandemic Garrett has received mentorship through Tarragon Theatre's Generating Pages and Playwrighting and Dramaturgy courses, Nightwood Theatre's Creatryx 3.0, and the Playwright Resiliency Mentorship Program with the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She has sat on the OAC Recommender Grant juries for Theatre Gargantua, Factory Theatre and Tarragon Theatre. She also sits on the Board of Directors for Shifting Ground Theatre as the Treasurer.

New Play Development, Festival Curation, Artistic Accessibility Practices and Dramaturgies

English

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