Gatherings
GVPTA presents and partners on a number of industry gatherings each year to provide a way for theatre community members to network and share knowledge.
GVPTA Members Roundtable
Second Wednesday of each month
NEXT: April 9, 2025, 11am-12pm PT (REGISTER HERE)
Hear from GVPTA leadership as we share updates related to advocacy, programming, resources and activities, and what we're hearing from community. It's also a space for members to share information and ask questions with their peers.
Meetings are open to all GVPTA members, including any staff and board of organizational (Company and Associate) members, along with our Individual members.
Access: Meetings will be held on Zoom with Zoom's auto-captions (English), and will not be recorded. If a GVPTA member who requires ASL interpretation wishes to attend, please inform us as soon as possible so we can make arrangements for an interpreter.

Industry Hangouts
Come and have a snack or a drink and socialize with people who are in the same boat as you! If you're new to the industry, events will have hosts present to help make introductions and connections. And the GVPTA buys appetizers!
Upcoming Hangouts

Black Theatre Artists Hangout
Monday, March 24, 2025, 6:30–9:30pm PST
Havana 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
The Black Theatre Artist Hangout is an informal gathering for Black folx in the theatre community to come chat, have a snack, and build community with each other. Whether you're a playwright, designer, director, producer, or actor, you're invited!
Appetizers are provided by the GVPTA & the frank theatre company.

About the Host
Adonis Critter King is a Black, Queer, Trans and non-binary, multi-disciplinary writer, director, producer, dramaturg, and Obeah in training. Their work interweaves the mundane and the divine, the monstrous and the holy, the laughter and the grief, to explore collective liberation, revolution as a way of life, and the strength it takes to stand sturdy in the difficult choices it takes to liberate ourselves and our futures.
Adonis was the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria, received the 2017 VACCS Community Recognition Award, and the 2020 Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art. Their work has been published by Playwrights Canada Press & and produced by CBC Gem.

“Put ‘Dis on Stage,” “Dis-Respect,” “Dis-Aloud” and other Punny Titles:
A D/disability Theatre Artist Hangout
Monday, April 7, 2025, 5:30–7:30pm PST
BMO Theatre Centre (lobby)162 West 1st Ave, Vancouver
Free to attend.
Hosted by Adam Grant Warren & the
Realwheels Theatre team
Realwheels Theatre team
Hey, D/disability-identified theatre artists, friends, allies, and would-be-allies! Come chat, share ideas, and just plain hang out with Realwheels Theatre's Co-Artistic Director Adam Grant Warren and the (company currently known as) Realwheels team.
All D/disability-identified artists, established, emerging, or poised to emerge are welcome. So is anyone curious about joining, hiring, or otherwise connecting to D/disability theatre community. The bar will be open; there will be snacks, gentle music, a relaxation station, board games, conversation starters - and maybe some updates about what Realwheels is up to these days.
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Transit via Route 84 (Manitoba Street stop) or Olympic Village Station (10-12 mins away on foot). Email mishelle@gvpta.ca for more access details.
Appetizers are provided by the GVPTA.

About the Host
Now based in Vancouver, Adam was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada. He started writing professionally in his early twenties, as a radio columnist for the CBC Morning Show. In that time, he also became Newfoundland’s youngest ever winner of both the Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the George Story Medal of Excellence in the Arts.
Adam then moved west to study at Vancouver Film School. His films have since screened as official selections at festivals including California’s Newport Beach Film Festival, the National Screen Institute’s Online All-Star Reel, and the Vancouver International Film Festival – where his film “Float” took home the honours for Best Canadian Short in 2012. In 2016, Conocerlos: Get to Know Them earned him his first BC Film Award nomination for Best Screenwriting.
In addition to his new position with Realwheels, Adam is an Artistic Associate with Vancouver’s All Bodies Dance Project. He has appeared in stage productions including Frank Theatre’s All In, Realwheels’ CREEPS, and Touchstone’s Kill Me Now — the latter two earning him Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
Following development as part of the National Writers’ Circle at Vancouver’s Playwrights’ Theatre Centre, Adam’s solo show, Last Train In, premiered to critical acclaim at UNOFest and rEvolver. More recently, Lights won Touchstone Theatre’s 2019 Flying Start Playwrights Competition and marked the beginning of the company’s 50th anniversary season. Adam’s current play, Saturday Nights at Axles, was the final component of his full-scholarship MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is now in development nationally. In 2024, he joined the Scotiabank Dance Centre as an Artist-in-Residence.
Learn about Realwheels Theatre at realwheels.ca.