THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! This year, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival took a brave new turn! For the first time ever, we were hosted by the Newmont Stage at the beautiful BMO Theatre Centre, as 10 of Vancouver's best theatre artists (including award-winning directors, actors, playwrights, and dramaturgs) led a dedicated band of nearly 40 performers in a wildly diverse series of staged readings by our exciting crop of emerging writers from the UBC School of Creative Writing. Over 6 nights, hundreds of audience members discovered 19 brand-new half-hour plays ranging from hilarious and heartfelt to innovative and provocative.

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