07/12/2026
Such a fantastic opportunity! Registration details below 😊
NotaBle Acts is excited to offer all members of the community a free workshop with our 2026 Playwright/Dramaturg in Residence, Jill Connell!
Playwriting & Embodied Experience
Sunday, July 19, 2026
12:00pm – 3:00pm
UNB Carleton Hall room 304
No charge
A workshop for creative writers and theatre-makers interested in exploring the form and structure of plays. We will use free-writing exercises to explore our experience of the world and the feeling of things (versus an objective or outside perspective about the “logic” of things). We will then look for an associated shape that might contain this experience in live performance and explore this via dramatic writing. We’ll share these aloud with each other, prioritizing availability over interpretation and experimentation over perfection.
All levels of experience are welcome. Please bring a notebook and pen. Limited spots available: email [email protected] to register by July 17.
Jill Connell (she/they) is a playwright and theatre artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her plays include The Supine Cobbler (published with Coach House Books), Arctic Ocean, HROSES: An Affront to Reason, The Tall Building and The Shark Tumour Collection. She runs the independent theatre company It Could Still Happen: a collective of interdisciplinary artists who create performances based on text, space and embodied practice.
Jill is a graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Masters in English from the University of New Brunswick. Over the past few years, she has been fortunate to teach performance and creative writing at Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, Sheridan College, and Humber College.
It Could Still Happen
Writers' Federation of New Brunswick
New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-op
Solo Chicken Productions
Theatre New Brunswick
Saint John Theatre Company
.ca Marshlight Theatre Company
