Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition

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The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial literary award, presented by Queen's University to plays by Canadian playwrights. [1] The award was created in 1997, funded by a bequest to the university by the late playwright Herman Voaden. [1]

The competition awards a first prize of $3,000 and a second prize of $2,000. In addition to the cash prizes, both the first and second prize winners receive workshop productions of their play at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. [1] Honourable mentions are also given.

Prize winners have included Brian Drader's The Norbals, [2] Richard Sanger's Two Words for Snow, [2] Hiro Kanagawa's Slants, [2] Michael MacLennan's Last Romantics [3] and The Shooting Stage, [4] Kent Stetson's New Arcadia, [3] Jason Hall's Eyes Catch Fire, [5] Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman's Scratch, [6] Kevin Loring's Where the Blood Mixes, [7] Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's Gas Girls, [8] Jordan Tannahill's Late Company, [9] David James Brock's Wet, [10] Norman Yeung's Theory, and Michael Kras' The Team.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Workshops focus on two winning plays". Kingston Whig-Standard , August 16, 1997.
  2. 1 2 3 "Playwriting contest winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard , May 6, 1997.
  3. 1 2 "Voaden playwriting winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard , June 9, 2001.
  4. ↑ "What happens when the Shaw meets gay theatre?". National Post , December 11, 1999.
  5. ↑ "Queen's grad wins playwriting prize". Kingston Whig-Standard , September 25, 2003.
  6. ↑ "A matter of lice and death". The Globe and Mail , October 14, 2008.
  7. ↑ "The classes and the damage done". The Globe and Mail , June 2, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Preview: Gas Girls". Now , November 4, 2009.
  9. ↑ "The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Late Company". The Georgia Straight ,
  10. ↑ "Intense, immersive Wet plunges you into postwar trauma". The Georgia Straight , May 14, 2018.
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