From published dramatic poetry to still-in-development musicals, the Shipwright Sessions give you the opportunity to hear excerpts of these works from the playwright themselves combined with an up-close look at the writer through mini-interviews led by Ship’s artistic director Richie Wilcox. This season, the Shipwright Sessions, which are free to the public and entirely online, will feature Santiago Guzman, Sharon King-Campbell, and Jiv Parasram. 

Sharon King-Campbell is a theatre and literary artist based in Ktaqmkuk, colonially known as Newfoundland. She is a playwright, actor, director, producer and scholar with a passion for the connective and change-making power of theatre. Sharon was the 2017 recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award, was long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2020, and is a three-time winner of the Arts & Letters Awards in fiction, dramatic script and poetry. Her collection of poetry, This Is How It Is, was published in 2021. Sharon holds a BFA Theatre and a MA English from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is currently pursuing her PhD.