[1] PGC has its origins in a meeting held in 1971 by a Canada Council theatre officer, David Gardner, with Carol Bolt, Tom Hendry, and Len Peterson to discuss issues affecting English Canadian playwrights.

[4] PGC has a Women's Caucus, which supports intersectional feminism and performs interventions to help offset existing industry barriers.

The CPO carries thousands of Canadian plays, and includes special curated collections pertaining to genre, geographical region, cast-size, and more.

[10] This helps narrow the gap between a written work and a production, and allows members to send PGC plays that have not yet been produced, but are ready to be promoted for the stage.

PGC's Women's Caucus undertakes a number of equity-related initiatives to help rectify the industry's gender imbalances, such as the now defunct multi-stakeholder Equity in Theatre project (2014 - 2017);[11] the annual Bra d'Or Award, which celebrates people who support the work of women playwrights;[12] Gender-Based Production Authorship Surveys, conducted annually to measure gains in representation;[13] the Pledge Project, an educators' database with large-cast plays by Canadian women; SureFire, a community-generated resource of production-ready under- or un-produced plays by Canadian women, trans, and/or non-binary creators;[14] and the CASA Award, which supports an established South African playwright of an historically marginalized gender.