2027 FireWorks Festival – DEADLINE: 2026/10/15

Alumnae Theatre Company’s celebrated FireWorks Festival of new plays returns!

FireWorks Festival champions women writers with the premiere of three innovative full-length plays. This curated three-week festival is an incubator for emerging artists and works in development, showcasing imaginative staging and provocative writing.

New play submissions are welcome from women playwrights who are any of the following:
-Active members of Alumnae Theatre
-Writers whose plays have been presented in full, or in part, at Alumnae's New Ideas or FireWorks Festivals
-Members of the Women’s Caucus of the Playwrights Guild of Canada
-Graduates or students of playwriting programs at University/College theatre departments
-Writers affiliated with a Canadian playwrights’ development centre

Alumnae Theatre encourages submissions from Indigenous writers, Black writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, as well as playwrights from underrepresented regions. Preference will be given to Canadian scripts containing challenging roles for women of all ages and backgrounds.

Submission criteria:

• Unproduced, full-length scripts, or scripts that have undergone a substantial rewrite since their initial production
• Scripts that are production-ready
• Playwrights must be prepared to work with an assigned dramaturge throughout the process, leading to performance
• Playwrights will participate in the choosing of directors but cannot direct their own plays.

TO APPLY:

Send your script as a PDF to: fireworks@alumnaetheatre.com
Note in the subject heading: SCRIPT SUBMISSION 2027
Deadline: October 15, 2026