Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition

The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial literary award, presented by Queen's University to plays by emerging 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] and Jordan Tannahill's Late Company.[9]

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, November 13, 2004.
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