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