Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition
Appearance
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.
Winners
[edit]Year | Playwright | Play | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1997 | Brian Drader | The Norbals | Winner | [2] |
Richard Sanger | Two Words for Snow | Second Prize | [2] | |
Hiro Kanagawa | Slants | Third Prize | ||
1999 | Greg Nelson | North | Winner | [3] |
Robert Fothergill | Borderline | Second Prize | ||
Michael MacLennan | The Shooting Stage | Third Prize | [4] | |
2001 | Michael MacLennan | Last Romantics | Winner | [5] |
Kent Stetson | New Arcadia | Second Prize | [5] | |
Sharon Cavanagh | Mr. Outplacement | Third Prize | ||
2003 | Jason Hall | Eyes Catch Fire | Winner | [6] |
Laurie Fyffe | The Malaysia Hotel | Second Prize | ||
2005 | Florence Gibson MacDonald | Missing | Winner | |
Emma C. Roberts | Excellence, Ontario | Second Prize | ||
2007 | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Scratch | Winner | [7] |
Kevin Loring | Where the Blood Mixes | Second Prize | [8] | |
2009 | David Egan | Tom's-a-Cold | Winner | |
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | Gas Girls | Second Prize | [9] | |
2011 | David James Brock | Wet | Winner | [10] |
David Egan | Yuri Gagarin Dreams of God | Second Prize | ||
2013 | Jordan Tannahill | Late Company | Winner | [11] |
Jessica Moss | Next to Him | Second Prize | ||
2015 | Norman Yeung | Theory | Winner | |
Len Falkenstein | Lac/Athabasca | Second Prize | ||
2017 | Michael Kras | The Team | Winner | [12] |
Brian Drader | Happy | Second Prize | [12] | |
2019 | Damian Tarnopolsky | The Defence | Winner | [13] |
Marc-André Blanchard | The Brothers Gentle | Second Prize | [13] | |
2021 | Jennifer Walton | Gunplay (After the Gun Goes Off) | Winner | |
Zahida Rahemtulla | The Frontliners | Second Prize | ||
2023 | Brandon Zang | Ah Wing and the Automaton Eagle | Winner | |
Alexander Steele Zonjic | Community Standards or (Move Fast and Break Things) | Second Prize |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Workshops focus on two winning plays". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 16, 1997.
- ^ a b "Playwriting contest winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, May 6, 1997.
- ^ Anne Nothof, "Nelson, Greg". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 7, 2021.
- ^ "What happens when the Shaw meets gay theatre?". National Post, December 11, 1999.
- ^ a b "Voaden playwriting winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, June 9, 2001.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Intense, immersive Wet plunges you into postwar trauma". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2018.
- ^ "The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Late Company". The Georgia Straight, November 13, 2014.
- ^ a b Peter Hendra, "Film festival celebrates the great outdoors". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 19, 2018.
- ^ a b Peter Hendra, "Plenty of plays taking place in the city this week". Kingston Whig-Standard, July 26, 2019.