We are not currently accepting applications for the Playwrights Unit. Check back in fall 2025!
In 2024, we are accepting applications for the Creators Unit, Creative Producers, and Indigenous Arts Program.
For more information about Paprika’s programming changes for 2024 and beyond, please click here to read our blog post.
About
The Directors Lab is for space-holders, world-makers, leaders, creatives, and dreamers looking to grow their directing practice. Artists will receive mentorship and participate in workshops and labs with a professional director. Artists choose a play written by an emerging playwright as the focus of their learning, with the opportunity to have an excerpt of their work-in-process shared at the festival. Artists will co-create – with the facilitator – a path of growth that supports their journey in creative collaboration and world-building. Workshops and labs will be responsive to the artists’ needs, and are a chance for experimentation with emergent directorial approaches and practices.