Or Festival Vancouver Playwright Submissions

Submission Criteria:

1. The play must be 10 minutes in length.
2. The play must be unproduced and original.
3. All playwrights must live in the Vancouver area from now until the end of the festival: February 19th-22nd, 2025.
4. We welcome plays in any genre: clown, drama, musicals, everything. Surprise us!
5. The set is bare bones, so we encourage writers to find imaginative ways to keep cast numbers and set pieces to a minimum.
6. You may submit more than one play.
7. Send your script in PDF or DOC format. We are also accepting video scripts in ASL.
8. For PDF or DOC scripts, please remove your name from all pages as our curators will read your play anonymously
9. For videos in ASL, please send your video directly to DeafArtsHub@gmail.com
10. Here is our call for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLeNDo0sX5E
11. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at: OrFestInquiries@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: Dec 1st, 2024 at 11:59pm, Midnight We celebrate applications from everyone in this beautifully diverse community. Thank you.

Chosen Playwrights:

3-4 hearing playwrights (selected anonymously by our panel of curators) and 2-3 Deaf and Hard of Hearing playwrights (selected by our  Deaf curatorial team) will receive a full production of their play. All plays are directed, dramaturged and acted by local Vancouver artists and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists across Canada. The plays will celebrate their world premier at The Jericho Arts Centre from February 19th-22nd, 2025. All plays are shown every night. We will announce the selected playwrights on our website in January, 2025 with “trumpet fanfare”. Happy writing!

Submit Here: https://orfestival.com/wp/playwright-submissions-3/