Residencies
We encourage culturally-diverse artists to join our artist-in-residence program. Our programs have a strong focus on plays that encourage dialogue, intercultural respect, and give exposure to marginalized communities and spotlight communities’ pressing concerns.
Playwright Submissions
We are looking for culturally diverse and First Nation plays that are politically relevant examining meaningful social and cultural questions, exploring diverse worldviews and historical events that affect our lives and our socio-cultural heritage. We are interested in plays that engage the audiences both mentally and emotionally. We are open to playwrights of all cultural backgrounds as long as their work meets the above criteria and cultural diversity is expressed in a significant way in plot and characterization.
Please submit your play and a short synopsis electronically to our Artistic Facilitator, Vishesh Abeyratne.
Please include your biography, the play’s production history and write in the subject line: Play Submission - (title of play). We will acknowledge receipt of your script and will contact you if the script is of interest to us.
Past Artists in Residences
Ambica Sharma
Ambica Sharma is a Montreal based actor, dancer, and poet. She hosts radio shows with Radio Humsafar Montreal & CKUT McGill and curates Kabir Poetry Club Montreal.
She has been working with Teesri Duniya Theatre as an intern under the Demarté program supported by Conseil des arts de Montréal to develop a Dance Theatre piece incorporating movements, spoken words and poetry. The piece explores the immigrant narratives and their triumphs and tribulations amid daunting questions of their past and future, as they adapt to a new life in Canada.
Baharan Baniahmadi
Baharan Baniahmadi is an Iranian-Canadian writer and actress. Baharan started her performing career as a theatre artist in “2000”. Since then she has worked with many international directors in various parts of the world; directors such as Ariane Munchkin and Fabrice Nicot in France, Amirreza Koohestani in many international theatre festivals, with the Japanese director Izumi Ashizawa, and etc. Baharan arrived in Canada in 2018 and immediately began to establish her career in her new homeland.
Aki Yaghoubi
Aki Yaghoubi is an Iranian-Canadian theatre and film artist. Dedicated to the arts for over 20 years, Aki has participated in several film and theatre productions. In 2017 she won the grant DémART-Mtl program from the Conseil des arts de Montréal and started her internship at Teesri Duniya Theatre where she started to write her first play Reflection of Silence. She won a grant from Canada Council for the Arts to develop Reflection of Silence in 2017. The play was workshopped in Playwrights' Workshop Montreal in 2020.
In 2019, she performed on Sin la Habana. In 2021 she won another grant from Canada Council for the Arts to write her second play "Tara's Barrier."