Description
Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage
For over ten years, the Advance Theatre Festival develops and then showcases
five dramatic readings over five days of new works written and directed by
female identifying and gender non-conforming IBPOC playwrights and directors. Many of these plays go on to be fully professionally produced.
If you are a playwright and your play is chosen to participate in the Advance
Theatre Festival, Ruby Slippers Theatre in partnership with The Shadbolt
Centre for the Arts will cover the costs of all rehearsals prior to the day of the
reading, your technical rehearsal, promotion, theatrical venue, and all artists’
fees.
If you are a director who wishes to participate, send us your resume and cover
letter for consideration.
Playwrights: please send your play synopsis, brief bio, and a maximum ten
page script excerpt to info@rubyslippers.ca by May 15, 2025. One submission
per person please. Successful candidates will be notified by June 15, 2025.
The 2025/26 Advance Theatre Festival will take place in Jan/Feb of 2026.
Exact dates TBD.
Our Curator for ATF 25/26 is Zahida Rahemtulla. You can read about her here:
https://www.rubyslippers.ca/about/staff-and-board-2/zahida-rahemtulla
Priority will be given to inclusivity, considering all cultural backgrounds,
orientations, identities, abilities, and ages.
The Advance Theatre Festival is brought to you by Ruby Slippers Theatre in
partnership with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of
Canada, and takes place in Vancouver B.C. on the unceded lands of The Coast
Salish People.
Please visit www.rubyslippers.ca to see our 24/25 Advance Theatre lineup!
