2027
Submissions for the 2027 EPRS are now closed. Thank you to all the writers who submitted. Selected playwrights will be contacted in September 2026.
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Michael Ross Albert
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Described by the Toronto Star as “one of Toronto’s most exciting playwrights,” Michael Ross Albert is a writer and indie theatre producer whose work has been staged across Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
Writing credits include The Midnight Torch: A Detective Murdoch Mystery (upcoming production: Vertigo Theatre), The Bidding War (Crow's Theatre; finalist, Carol Bolt Award), The Village It Takes (finalist, Tom Hendry Drama Award), A Little Closer (The Vault Creation Lab), Beautiful Renegades, (Peggy Baker Dance Projects), Two Minutes to Midnight (The Assembly Theatre), and Tough Jews (Spadina Avenue Gang/Storefront Theatre; Dora Award nomination, Outstanding New Play).
Michael’s work has been presented in multiple Fringe festivals, including Edinburgh, Brighton, Halifax, and FringeNYC. Five of his plays were staged in the Toronto Fringe Festival, including The Huns and Anywhere; both plays were named Patron’s Pick and Best of Fringe, and have received multiple subsequent productions
Nam Nguyen
Nam Nguyen (he/him) is a Viet Canadian playwright from Mississauga, ON. Previous works include A Perfect Bowl of Pho, which was one of the Toronto Star's Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2022, and CAEZUS, a show so good that Toronto Fringe started giving cash prizes to runners-up of the Adams Prize for Musical Theatre but not good enough to win it outright. Nam's achievements include being named a Breakthrough Stage Artist of 2019 by NOW Toronto back when that was a thing & winning the Gauss Math Contest in Grade 8. Everything afterward savours of anticlimax.
Liza Hersh
Aurora McClennan
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