Collider is the Citadel’s New Play Development Festival that celebrates and helps bring to life new stories and scripts for larger stages showcasing a mix of local artists and artists from across the country and beyond. We hope you’ll join us for more exciting work and discussions around New Play Development this summer! Check out the FREE play readings, mixers, and workshops ($45 +GST). Info on workshops coming to the website soon!
2025 Schedule for Workshops, Mixers, and Readings
Friday, June 20, 2025
READING – CYRANO DE BERGERAC
by Jessy Ardern, an adaptation of the play by Edmond Rostand
7:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall | FREE
MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP – ADAPT ANYTHING
Instructor – Amiel Gladstone
JUNE 21, 2025 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
BOARD ROOM
Ticketed event – $45 +GST
Musicals are most often created from adaptation, and this fun interactive workshop embraces that idea fully! Join instructor Amiel Gladstone and find out more about building musicals from standard source materials like novels and more unorthodox places like Craig’s List! This three hour workshop will include lecture, discussion, time to share work and ideas and Q and A. Video material will be shown from several of Gladstone’s award winning projects. Playwrights, composers, musical theatre creators and writing teams are all welcome. Bring a laptop, sharpen your pencils and come ready to be inspired and explore!
Saturday, June 21, 2025
READING – PERSUASION
by Katherine Koller, an adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen
2:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall | FREE
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Playwrights Mixer
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall Lobby | FREE
Join us to meet and mingle with fellow playwrights, artists and theatre lovers who are passionate about new play development. This is also a chance to check out our Pop-Up Theatre Bookstore which carries plays by many local writers and many of the playwrights involved in Collider.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
READING – THE RIVERSIDE SENIORS VILLAGE THEATRICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET
by Collin Doyle
7:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall | FREE
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP – EQUITABLE DEVISING WITH CHOREOGRAPHY AND PLAYWRITING
Instructors Beth Graham & Ainsley Hillyard
JUNE 22, 2025 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
BENTLEY STUDIOS
Ticketed event – $45 +GST
In the theatre world the text traditionally takes precedence. What if this wasn’t the case?
Ainsley and Beth challenge traditional ways of writing and choreographing where the script does not need to dictate the outcome and all content is influential to the story. In this workshop, we will explore different devising techniques that centre both writing and choreography as entry points into the creation of new work. Ainsley and Beth will be drawing from their experience collaborating on Mermaid Legs, a dance theatre fantasia that premiered in 2024 at SkirtsAfire Festival. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in, indoor runners, and bring whatever tools you write with (computer, pen and paper, iPad).
Sunday, June 22, 2025
READING – RUNAWAYS
by Mac Brock
Read by participants in the Citadel Young Company
2:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall | FREE
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Playwrights Mixer
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall Lobby | FREE
Join us to meet and mingle with fellow playwrights, artists and theatre lovers who are passionate about new play development. This is also a chance to check out our Pop-Up Theatre Bookstore which carries plays by many local writers and many of the playwrights involved in Collider.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
READING – NOWHERE WITH YOU: AN EAST COAST MUSICAL
by James Odin Wade, based on the music of Joel Plaskett
7:00 PM in the Zeidler Hall | FREE
