Alberta Playwrights Network
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| formation = 1985
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| type = Professional association
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| purpose = Playwriting
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| location = Alberta
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| language = English
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Sharon Pollock
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| affiliations = Scripts At Work
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| website = http://www.albertaplaywrights.com/
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The Alberta Playwrights Network (APN) is a professional association that was founded in 1985 to develop and support playwrights.{{Cite journal|title=Introduction|author=Moira Day|editor=Moira Day|journal=West-Words: Celebrating Western Canadian Theatre and Playwriting|publisher=CPRC Press|year=2011|page=xiii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psIC_9QLJD0C&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22&pg=PA305|accessdate=August 4, 2012|isbn=978-0889772359}} It hosts a competition called the New Play Development Program.{{Cite book|title=Canadian Mosaic II: Six Plays|author=Aviva Ravel|publisher=Dundurn Group|year=1996|isbn=0889242747|page=256|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KwQBfNDbEsC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22&pg=PA256|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} Gordon Pengilly is a dramaturge for the Alberta Playwrights Network,{{Cite book|page=184|author=Robin C. Whittaker|title=Hot Thespian Action!: Ten Première Plays from Walterdale Playhouse|publisher=Athabasca University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1897425268|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xieLrkQhaYUC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22&pg=PA569|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} as is Gisèle Villeneuve.{{Cite book|title=Dictionnaire des Artistes et des Auteurs Francophones de l'Ouest Canadien|author=Gilles Cadrin|author2=Paul Dubé|author3=Laurent Godbout|publisher=Presses Université Laval|year=1998|page=326|isbn=2763775667|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nj6UzViNikgC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} Sharon Pollock was elected president of the Alberta Playwrights Network in 1998.{{Cite book|title=Sharon Pollack: Essays on Her Works|author=Anna Nothof|publisher=Guernica Editions|year=2000|isbn=1550711083|page=181|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw3KqhdtllgC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22&pg=PA181|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} Sandra Dempsey had previously been the president.{{Cite book|title=Behind the Scenes: A Canadian Scene Book|author=Mary Ross|author2=Ron Cameron|page=36|publisher=Dundurn Group|year=1990|isbn=0889241945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eFucLlJ_s3oC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} The Alberta Playwrights Network supported Katherine Koller in writing such plays as The Seed Savers.{{Cite book|title=Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays|author=Katherine Koller|publisher=Athabasca University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1926836935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0nQdKZMmtkC&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} The association produces a newsletter called Rave Review.{{Cite book|page=298|title=Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock|author=Sherrill Grace|publisher=Talonbooks|year=2008|isbn=978-0889225862|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbofAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} The Alberta Playwrights Network has also engaged in playwright exchanges with other associations, including the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre and the Playwrights Theatre Centre.{{Cite book|title=Developing Nation: New Play Creation in English-Speaking Canada|author=Bruce Barton|publisher=Theatre Communications Group|year=2010|isbn=978-0887545931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRgqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alberta+Playwrights+Network%22|accessdate=August 4, 2012}} The Alberta Playwrights Network also presented an annual award with Scripts At Work called the Scripts At Work/Alberta Playwrights Network Award.{{Cite journal|author=Mark Weber|journal=Red Deer Express|title=Author explores plight of Malaysian refugees|date=July 14, 2010}}