24-Hour Playwriting Contest
**The 2011 24-Hour Playwriting Contest is now over**. Applications for the 2012 24-Hour Playwriting Contest will become available in June. Below is the info form last year's contest.
WHAT: One of the most anticipated writing contests of the year has up to 60 participants attempting to write a new play in 24 hours. Playwrights show up, are given 4 objects that MUST be incorporated into the script and are given 24 hours to complete a script. The winning play is presented to the public in a free staged reading on the final night of the Fringe Festival featuring noted Toronto area performers.
WHAT YOU GET: First place prize will be $500 and a staged reading of the winning script, directed by a notable Toronto director, at The Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, The SOLO ROOM, 736 Bathurst on the closing night of the festival, July 17th 2011. Second place is $300 and third place is $150.
WHEN: Topics will be announced on July 6th at 6pm at the Fringe Club – 581 Bloor St. West, in the McAuslan Beer Tent. Playwrights will then have 24 hours to submit scripts. Finished plays are to be emailed to outreach@fringetoronto.com as a word document (.doc) or PDF, with 24hr Playwriting Contest Script Submission in the subject line. If you cannot submit electronically, hardcopy scripts must be word processed, double-spaced between speaking parts, printed on one side of 8 ½” x 11” paper and dropped off at the Advance Ticket Box Office at the Fringe Club. All script submissions are due by 6:00PM sharp on Thursday July 7th, 2011 (6:01pm & later submissions will not be accepted).
WHO: The contest is open to everyone, except contest Jurors.
HOW: The 24hr Playwriting Contest is full.
If you are looking for the credit card payment form it's available for download here.
For more information please call 416-966-1062 or email outreach@fringetoronto.com
Previous winning scripts include:
* "OUT" by Ron Fromstein, directed by Nina Lee Aquino.
* "The Tempest & the Birch Tree" by Jonathan Kline, directed by Andrea Donaldson.
* "Kelly Gruber, Cryptico-Existential Zen Family Counselor and Third Baseman" by Amit Morri, directed by Alan Dilworth.
* Disperare by Matthew Heiti, directed by Brendan Healy featuring Terrence Bryant, Eric Goulem and Ryan Hollyman.
* Ghost Stories by Sean Reycraft, directed by Ross Manson featuring Randy Hughson, Waneta Storms and Maggie Huculak
* Pomeranski Rex by Eric Woolfe, directed by Kelly Thorton featuring, Bruce Hunter, Alex Poch-Goldin, Tony Nappo, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Ron White, Hamish McEwen and Hume Baugh
* Prints Charming by Carolyn Hay, directed by Kate Lynch featuring Fiona Highet, Mark Brownell, Liza Balkan, John Blackwood, Catherine Fitch, Tony Munch, Janet Laine Green and Derek Boyes
* The Pimp Hand of God by Matthew Toner, directed by Sue Miner featuring Steve Reich
* Let's Start Over by Tom Robertson, directed by Patrick Connor featuring Michael Petrasak, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Marjorie Chan, Kimwun Perehinec
* Vantex, Graveyards and Me by Ron Fromstein, directed by Nigel Sean-Williams featuring David Jansen
* Kooky by Lindsay Price, directed by Jason Sherman featuring Irene Poole and Earl Pastko
