Description
Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage
The Advance Theatre Festival develops and showcases new plays written and
directed by female identifying and gender non-conforming playwrights and
directors who also identify as IBPOC.
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
presentation, your technical rehearsal, promotion, theatrical venue, and all
artists’ and dramaturgical 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 30, 2024. One submission
per person please. Successful candidates will be notified by June 30, 2024.
This is a curated process with priority given to historically marginalized groups of diverse cultural backgrounds, orientations, identities, abilities, and ages.
The Advance Theatre Festival is brought to you by Ruby Slippers Theatre in
association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of
Canada. This installment will take place in February of 2025 in Vancouver BC
on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish people. Applications are accepted
from across Turtle Island.
Please visit www.rubyslippers.ca to see our 2024 Advance Theatre line-up!
