2007 WriteNOW!
Festival of New Works

WriteNOW! 2007 was a SOLD OUT three night, playwright’s festival in Toronto. WriteNOW! was the inaugural performance for pivotal(arts) theatre company inc. and was the first of its kind to hit the Toronto theatre scene.
Six new plays emerged through months of peer-facilitated workshops, three of which were written by new playwrights and the other three were collective creations based on the theme of ‘insecurities’.

Location: Diesel Play House, Cabaret Space
Dates: March 8th - March 10th, 2007
Festival Producers: pivotal(arts) theatre company, inc.

Festival Shows:

The Hole  

Written by Mathew Bradley
Directed by Allyson Bradley

Act II  


Written by Alison Agar
Self Directed by Deanna L. Palazzo, Ryan Mimnagh, Matt Kowall and Kasia Rusiniak

A Lackadasical Nature 


Written by Jon Nelson
Directed by Sue Drummond

The following productions were co-facilitated by Jennifer De Lucia and Shawn Douglas Murphy

Cookies and Ashes


Collectively created by Casey Dutfield, Andrew Ferguson, Deanna L. Palazzo, Jowan Jafar, Matt Kowall, Kevin Morris and ‘Manda Whitney

Off the Hook


Collectively created by Daniel Stolfi, Jowan Jafar, Breanne teBoekhurst and Deanna L. Palazzo

Inside Out


Collectively created by Daniel Stolfi, Andrew Ferguson, Jennifer Lippa, Christopher Sunnucks, Joan M. Kivanda, Kevin Morris and ‘Manda Whitney