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Now accepting applications for 2025

• 2025 Lee Playwright in Residence | Call for Applicants
  (Application deadline: April 18, 2025 | View the PDF Poster)
  
  
• 2025 Lee Playwriting Prize for New Canadian Plays | Call for Applications
  (Application deadline: May 24, 2025 | View the PDF Poster)

The Lee Playwright in Residence Endowment (created by the Clifford E. Lee Foundation) is dedicated to the creation of new Canadian plays and to the development of emerging and established Canadian playwrights.

This permanent Playwright in Residence program at the º£½ÇÉçÇø was established in 2005 and was the first of its kind among Canadian universities. The innovative residency offers a unique opportunity for a Canadian playwright to devote time to their writing and to make a significant contribution to new play development within the university and professional theatre community in Edmonton.

In addition to the residency, the Lee Playwright may also accept a commission to write a new play for the Department of Drama's main stage UofA Studio Theatre season.

Former Lee Playwrights

• Darrin Hagen (2024-2025) 
• Beth Graham (2020-2023)
• Meg Braem (2017-2020)
• Colleen Murphy (2014-2017)
• Greg MacArthur (2011-2013)
• Kevin Kerr (2007-2010)
• Don Hannah (2005-2007)