Mollie Garrett

Bio

Mollie Garrett is a playwright and dramaturg based in Toronto. As an artist Garrett has worked in new play development, adaptation, devising, and site-specific processes. Her playwriting has been supported across Ontario by the TAC, OAC, Theatre Gargantua, Tottering Biped Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Green Light Arts, and Tarragon Theatre. She had been produced within the larger anthology works of Urban ARTeries (Theatre Gargantua) and Play This: Hamilton (Tottering Biped Theatre). As a dramaturg she is excited to jump into any creative puzzle she can get her hands on and believes joy and humor can be our most radical tools for change. She has facilitated dramaturgy processes on numerous projects, supporting artists and creators at Theatre Gargantua, Landor Space, CentrE17, Theatre Royal Haymarket and Camden People’s Theatre. Most recently she was the Festival Dramaturg for Fresh Meat Fest 14. Garrett has sat on the OAC Recommender Grant juries for Theatre Gargantua, Factory Theatre and Tarragon Theatre as well as the Jury Panel for the 2025-26 Emerging Playwright Reading Series. She sits on the Board of Directors for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (Canada). In 2018 she completed an MA in playwriting and dramaturgy at RADA.