SOLO COLLECTIVE THEATRE, the award-winning Vancouver theatre company that produces original work by Canadian playwrights, in partnership with the VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY, invites you to enter the eighth-annual EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS’ COMPETITION.  Three winning monologues and/or dual character scripts will be selected from contest entries, to be presented at SOLO FLIGHTS, the annual Emerging Writers’ Showcase, in April/May of 2012.

The competition judges are Amiel Gladstone (playwright, Hippies and Bolsheviks, The Trolley Car), Deborah Williams (playwright, Mom’s the Word), Dave Deveau (playwright and dramaturge, Nelly Boy) and Andrea Yu (Dramaturge Intern, Solo Collective) with support from Solo Collective Theatre’s co-Artistic Directors Rachel Peake and Aaron Bushkowsky.  Every competition entrant will receive written feedback from two of the judges.

Please mail your properly formatted submission (see below) on or before February 3, 2012 to:
Solo Collective Theatre
1108-1202 Harwood Street
Vancouver, BC, V6E 1S3

Submission Requirements:

1. typed, double-spaced WITH page numbers
2. a title page with your name and contact info (including email address) and word count of the submission – do NOT put your name any subsequent pages
3. max. length 1250 words for monologues, and 2200 words for dual character scenes
4. $30 Submission fee plus $5 membership fee if you are not already a member of Solo Collective in 2012 (cheques only, made out to Solo Collective Theatre Society)
5. the monologues or scenes should be self-contained (i.e. stand alone outside the context of a larger piece).  Any scenes that have more than two characters will NOT be considered.

Three winners will be announced in late March, and will receive:

1. a two-hour workshop with a professional actor and a dramaturge
2. a public reading by professional actors at SOLO FLIGHTS, Solo Collective’s Emerging Writers’ Showcase in collaboration with the Vancouver Playhouse
3. a profile on Solo Collective’s website, and other promotion through Solo Collective Theatre and the Vancouver Playhouse associated with the showcase event

Over the past twelve years Solo Collective has produced more original scripts than any other theatre company in Vancouver, including two from previous monologue competitions. Productions have received a number of Jessie Richardson Awards and nominations for writing, acting and direction.  The Vancouver Playhouse is now in its 49th season as BC's premiere professional theatre company.