7th Annual
EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS' COMPETITION WINNERS

Peter Boychuck (Fritters in Kandahar)

Peter is currently completing a M.F.A. in Playwriting at the University of Victoria under the tutelage of Governor General's Award-winning playwright Joan MacLeod. His first full-length play, Shelter from the Storm, will close Touchstone Theatre's 2011/2012 season. His one-act plays include Afterglow, which is published in the anthology Two Hands Clapping and has been produced in schools and universities across the country; Fortunate Son, which has won the Stanley Mills Purchase Prize, Honourable Mention in the Canadian National Playwriting Competition, and Best of the Fest at ACToberfest 2007; and Chainmail Bikini, which premiered at the Calgary Fringe Festival. He works across BC as a freelance director and dramaturg.

Sigal Samuel (Hebrew)

Sigal's literary work has appeared in Event, Descant, Room, Scrivener Creative Review, Accenti Magazine, and The Jerusalem Post, among other publications.  Her personal journalism was featured at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in 2010.  She has written and produced four other plays in Montreal and Vancouver, and is also a book and film reviewer for This Magazine, Schema Magazine, and PRISM international.  Sigal is currently at work on her first novel.  Find her at www.sigalsamuel.com

Geoff McBride (You Win)

Geoff is an actor and writer based in Ottawa. He was a member of the Halifax based Alive Theatre Company who produced his first two plays: Shakespeare Robs A Bank and Smarter Monkeys. His play Quit was produced by Live Bait Theatre in 2005. As an actor Geoff has appeared in shows at Neptune Theatre, Two Planks and a Passion, Live Bait, Eastern Front, Crow's Theatre and the Stratford Festival

Over the past eleven years Solo Collective has produced more original scripts than any other theatre company in Vancouver, including two from previous monologue competitions. Our productions have received a number of Jessie Richardson Awards and nominations for writing, acting and direction.  The Playhouse is now in its 48th season as BC's premiere professional theatre company. Being selected as a winner of this Emerging Playwrights’ Competition does not guarantee a production. For more information, visit our web site at www.solocollective.ca or contact Solo Collective Theatre by e-mail:  info@solocollective.ca.