Get your tickets for the 2025 Brave New Play Rites Festival
For the 39th year in a row, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival (BNPR), produced by the UBC School of Creative Writing, will take place at the Dorothy Somerset Studio at UBC in Vancouver from March 11 to March 15 at 7:00 pm.
Get your tickets for the 2024 Brave New Play Rites Festival
For the 38th year in a row, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival (BNPR), produced by the UBC School of Creative Writing, will take place at the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver from March 19 to March 22 at 7:00 pm.
New work by Creative Writing faculty to add to your winter to-do list
This past year, Creative Writing faculty have been prolific. They’ve published adult and young adult fiction, children’s books, and anthologies, and produced plays, podcasts and radio shows that call on us to consider our place in the world.
The Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival takes a brave new turn
Running from Monday, March 20 to Saturday, March 25, 2023, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival will dazzle audiences with a wildly diverse series of staged readings hosted for the first time by the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.
New publications from Creative Writing faculty expand our ideas on belonging and connection
Over the last year, Creative Writing faculty published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works that see the world through collaborative acts of art-making—with family, ancestors and communities, and with illustrators, teachers and screenwriters.
Alum interview with Marie Leofeli Barlizo, MFA ’13
Marie Leofeli Barlizo is a Filipino-Chinese playwright from Montreal. She is the playwriting mentor at Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program and an instructor at the National Theatre School.
“The Show Must Go…Online!”: Brave New Play Rites Festival Goes Virtual
During these uncertain times we need a form of escape and the Creative Writing Program has exactly what you’re looking for! The 34th Annual Brave New Play Rites Festival has moved online, live readings are being broadcasted on Saturdays at 1pm PST for the next five weeks. You can access BNPR’s YouTube channel through this […]
Brave New Play Rites brings new voices to Vancouver
UBC’s Creative Writing Program presents the Brave New Play Rites Festival, premiering 21 short plays at Studio 1398 (recently renamed The N.E.S.T.) on Granville Island.
The Cascadia Project
Creative Writing professor Bryan Wade, masters students, and emerging playwrights combine forces to put on a festival of new plays, from September 26th to October 7th, 2018 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. The festival has been programed into a White, Blue, and Green night, each featuring two plays, over the course of the two-week […]