Philomena by Patrick Foley

Guidelines, Entry Rules and Fee:
Note: Plays not submitted via ALL Guideline/Entry Rules and/or without the entry fee(s) will be returned - not read. All One-Act Play Submissions must be:

• An original One-Act play (comedy, tragedy, drama or radio play), unpublished and unproduced. (Plays can be previously workshopped). PLEASE DO NOT SEND US 2-ACT PLAYS - This is a One-Act Play Contest.
• No longer than 30 double-spaced typed pages equal to 30 minutes, with no more than 6 characters, presented in proper stage-play format, and scripts MUST have page numbers. (Please include a SASE (with your present/current contact address) for return of script. Send copies only of script. NO original manuscripts.)
• There is an entry fee of $25 for each one-act submitted to Theatre In the Raw. (For two plays: $45 - For three plays: $70) (FEES ARE IN CANADIAN FUNDS, FOR U.S. & FOREIGN ENTRIES, PLEASE SEND A USD CHEQUES OR INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDER) • Please make cheques/money orders payable to "Theatre In the Raw", bearing the submission date and NAME OF PLAY ENTRY and AUTHOR on cheque memo line.(Note: Plays without the entry fee cheque or funds will be returned unread.)(Sorry, NO EMAIL SUBMISSIONS will be accepted! - Plays must be submitted in hard copy and pages numbered.)

Mail Submissions to:
(Sorry, NO EMAIL SUBMISSIONS will be accepted!)

Theatre In the Raw Society
Artistic Director/One Act Play Contest
3521 Marshall Street
Vancouver, BC V5N 4S2 Canada
(Please make entry fee cheques/money order payable to "Theatre In the Raw Society")

Questions? Tel: 604-708-5448

Deadline for Entries:

All Entries must be mailed and postmarked no later than December 31, 2017.

IMPORTANT NOTES: *Theatre In the Raw reserves the right to suggest changes, workshop and play-edit scripts, pending approval of the playwright, before production, reading, or presentation. The author agrees to consider these changes and no changes will be made without explicit prior approval of the author and mutual agreement with TITR. Any such changes become the sole and exclusive property of the Author without lien, claim, or encumbrance. *No plays will be considered where there has been any fees previously paid for performance(s) and... please no more than 3-4 plays submitted per playwright. This will be strictly adhered to. *Contest entry fees and winning prizes in Canadian Funds. Sorry, NO EMAIL SUBMISSIONS will be accepted! *If a winning One-Act is staged by Theatre In the Raw, we would very much appreciate being mentioned for the production in future play programs. *Over the years we've had a number of questions, concerns, and criticisms of the theatre's decision to include the $25.00 entry fee. Some have called it a predatory cash grab or worse. I will explain the rationale here for those who would discard this contest. First, the fee helps to cover the promotional and administrative expenses associated with a contest of this size. We place advertisements in local papers and writers magazines for this contest. We even do a mass paper mail out to libraries, writers groups, theatre companies etc. in Canada and internationally. The entry fee rarely covers all of these expenses but TITR pays those expenses anyway to fulfill its mandate of provide opportunity to untested writers. The second reason is because the fee creates a barrier of entry where only writers who believe in the script that they are writing and believe it has been sufficiently workshopped are likely to enter. Ultimately those scripts that the writer feels are strong are more likely to be those others think are strong and those that will lend themselves to the sort of theatre we aim to produce.

Final Deadline for Entries:
- All Entries must be mailed and postmarked
no later than December 31, 2017.

See Some Live Theatre Today!

June 30, 2016 - Winners of the 9th Biennial 2014/2015 One-Act Playwriting Contest!

Thank you to all that participated in the contest. We read numerous submissions from over 20 entrants and listed below are the winning One-Act plays! There were very exciting scripts submitted and we will produce a few in the near future. Congratulations to everyone who particpated. We were very impressed with the originality and diversity of the scripts as well as the quality of writing. Thank you all for your creative input. It is important. Winners will be directly contacted in the coming days.

- Theatre In the Raw

The Finalists:

CATEGORIES	PRIZE	ONE-ACT PLAY WINNERS
First Choice	$200	• Perogies for Breakfast by Murray Mellny'chuk Mason
Second Choice:	$100	• Surrender by Kuei-ming Lin
Third Choice:	$75	• Waiting for the Godots by Robin Schlaht
Honourable Mentions:		• In the Blink of an Eye by Audrey Thivierge • The Queen of Sheba by Paul Manuel Kane • The Recommendation by Thomas Johnson • Tomorrow by zi paris
Social Issues Play Recognition:		• Constitutional Crazy Guy by Edward Chern • In Re: Radding v Glazzer by Steve Karp • The Gatekeeper's Reckoning by Enrique R. Carrasco
Youth Theatre:		• Once Round the Circle by Shanan Estreicher

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