Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition

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

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

  1. ^ a b c "Workshops focus on two winning plays". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 16, 1997.
  2. ^ a b "Playwriting contest winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, May 6, 1997.
  3. ^ Anne Nothof, "Nelson, Greg". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "What happens when the Shaw meets gay theatre?". National Post, December 11, 1999.
  5. ^ a b "Voaden playwriting winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, June 9, 2001.
  6. ^ "Queen's grad wins playwriting prize". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 25, 2003.
  7. ^ "A matter of lice and death". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2008.
  8. ^ "The classes and the damage done". The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2008.
  9. ^ "Preview: Gas Girls". Now, November 4, 2009.
  10. ^ "Intense, immersive Wet plunges you into postwar trauma". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2018.
  11. ^ "The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Late Company". The Georgia Straight, November 13, 2014.
  12. ^ a b Peter Hendra, "Film festival celebrates the great outdoors". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 19, 2018.
  13. ^ a b Peter Hendra, "Plenty of plays taking place in the city this week". Kingston Whig-Standard, July 26, 2019.
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