Left or right? Into the jungle, or through the cave? Our latest workshop with Chelsea Wooley teaches you to “design your own adventure” text based video game. Participants will create video game designs through story boarding, writing, and basic coding using the interactive program TWINE.

“Write Your Own Adventure,” is happening every Wednesday at 4-5PM from April 13th to May 4th. Writers, coders, and creators will develop characters and craft multiple plot lines for readers to choose from, as well as learn how to add other interactive components. This program is in partnership with Tarragon Theatre’s East of Tarragon programming.

About The Facilitator:

Chelsea Woolley is a playwright whose work includes: Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood’s Groundswell Festival), The Mountain (Geordie Productions), These Peaceable Kingdoms (New Words Festival) and The Only Good Boy (Theatre BSMT).

Chelsea’s work has been recognized through a number of awards including: The SureFire List, The Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award, The Playwright’s Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award (Short List), The Toronto Fringe New Play Contest, and The Alberta Playwriting Competition. She has attended the Banff Playwright’s Lab and the National New Play Network’s MFA Playwright’s Workshop at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC.

 As a former high school teacher, Chelsea works closely with youth. Most recently she has worked with Etobicoke School of the Arts, Project Humanity, Red Door Shelter, and with Boys and Girls Club Toronto. Chelsea is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting Program.

About Tarragon Theatre:

Tarragon Theatre is Canada’s home for groundbreaking contemporary plays.Tarragon Theatre’s mission is to create, develop and produce new plays and to provide the conditions for new work to thrive. To that end, the theatre engages the best theatre artists and craftspeople to interpret new work; presents each new work with high quality production values; provides an administrative structure to support new work; develops marketing strategies to promote new work; and continually generates an audience for new work. As a complement to the new work created here, Tarragon presents new plays from all parts of the country, revives significant Canadian plays and produces international work, contemporary and classical.