2026 Tom Hendry Award Finalists

Carol Bolt Award 

Supported by Playwrights Canada Press, York University Department of Theatre, Dance, & Performance, Scirocco Drama, Alberta Playwrights Network, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre.

The Neighbours by Nicolas Billon (ON) 

Rez Gas by Cale Crowe and Genevieve Adam (ON) 

Cult Play by Scout Rexe (QC) 

Peer Assessment Panelists: Pâmela Mala Sinha (Chair), Len Falkenstein, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard.

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Comedy Award 

Cleo by Makram Ayache (ON) 

Agency by Nathaniel Hanula-James (ON) 

Holiday in Zurich by Colleen Murphy (ON)

Peer Assessment Panelists: Jivesh Parasram (Chair), Norman Yeung, Laura Teasdale.

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Drama Award 

Mable’s Mine by Lyndsey Bourne (BC) 

Ghosts of Mariupol by Christopher Morris (ON) 

Medusa by Erin Shields (ON) 

Peer Assessment Panelists: Katrina Dunn (Chair), Barry Bilinsky, Daniel Macdonald. 

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Emerging Playwright Award 

Look At Me by Raymond Beauchemin (ON) 

Lamb by Sepehr Reybod (ON) 

The Astros by Brianna Russell (NL)

Peer Assessment Panelists: Kacie Hall (Chair), Megan Gail Coles, Marie Leofeli Barlizo. 

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Musical Award 

The 7 Fires: A New Musical Book by Dillan Meighan Chiblow, Music by Landon Doak, Lyrics by Landon Doak with Dillan Meighan Chiblow (ON) 

Way Out There Book by Sara Farb Music and Lyrics by Anton Lipovetsky (ON)

On Native Land by Corey Payette (BC)

Peer Assessment Panelists: Leah Simone Bowen, Allen Cole, Lisa Rubin. 

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Theatre for Young Audiences Award 

Supported by the Estate of Rachel Wyatt.

Caged by Rachel Aberle (BC) 

Signs by Collin Doyle (AB) 

Under the Mango Tree by Lennette Randall (AB)  

Peer Assessment Panelists: Dennis Foon (Chair), Monica DuFault, Jenna Rodgers.