Playwrights Guild of Canada invites you to a special 1-hour reading event as part of our international cultural exchange series.
This special event, hosted by the Toronto Reference Library, features award-winning Canadian writer, Rose Napoli, and Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson (Iceland), of Nordic Drama Corner.
It is sure to inspire as the writers share segments of their work, discuss their craft, and engage in an audience Q & A session.
WHEN: Friday Aprill 11, 2025 at 2:00-3:00pm ET
WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall, 1st Floor, 789 Yonge Street
Cost: Free
Registration: not required
The Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) is a national arts service organization based in Toronto which supports individual creators for the stage from coast to coast to coast. Our Craft Bites International series pairs Canadian playwrights with other playwrights around the world to read from their work and answer questions to an international audience.
Please join us in championing Canadian stories and Canadian artists and in welcoming our colleagues from Finland and Iceland to our amazing city.
This event is free to the public. The library is wheelchair accessible. We ask you to share information about this event.
About the Playwrights:
Rose Napoli is an actor, screenwriter, and playwright. Her plays include Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Mad Madge (recently seen at Nightwood Theatre) and the upcoming After the Rain (Musical Stage Company/Tarragon). Her musical adaptation of Mavis Gallant’s The Carrette Sisters with composer Suzy Wilde was nominated for the Dora for Outstanding New Musical (as part of Musical Stage Company’s RETOLD series). Onstage, she most recently played in Michael Healey’s The Master Plan (Crows/Aquarius/Soulpepper) the title character in Kat Sandler’s Wildwoman (Soulpepper). Onscreen, she has developed television shows with CBC, Bell/Crave, Cameron Pictures, Shaftesbury, and Circle Blue Entertainment. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, where she now teaches.
Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson is an award-winning Icelandic playwright whose works have been performed in Iceland, Europe, and North America, including Théâtre de Quat’Sous in Montreal. Tyrfingur studied at the Iceland University of the Arts, Janáček Academy in Brno, Czech Republic, and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Tyrfingur’s breakthrough came with his graduation piece, Grande (2011), which earned him recognition in Reykjavík and a nomination for the Icelandic Performing Arts Awards (Gríman). His latest work, Lúna (English title: The Beauty Show) was named one of the fifteen most interesting contemporary plays in the world by an international committee under Theater Info in Helsinki and will be featured in the upcoming edition of Playwrighting with Purpose, published by Routledge.
Beyond theatre, Tyrfingur has made contributions to film and television. His first film script, Villibráð (co-written with director Elsa María Jakobsdóttir), premiered in January 2023 and became the highest-grossing Icelandic film in history. He was also the co-creator and writer of the TV series Descendants, produced by Lumière in Belgium and Freyja Film
PGC gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.