Directors required.  Winners Announced!  7th Annual InspiraTO Festival: Alumnae Theatre (Mainstage), Toronto, June 1-10, 2012. 

The InspiraTO Festival is excited to present this year's Playwriting Contest Winners. 17 plays were selected (we had 311 play submissions).  

Applications for InspiraTO's Playwrights' Mentoring Project has closed. Stay tuned as we announce the recipients in the next 3-4 days.  Note: If selected please keep Sat. Feb 11, 2012 (Toronto) as you must be available to attend the workshop.     

We require directors. If you live in the Greater Toronto Area and would like to direct a ten-minute play please go to "read a play " for full details.     

If you want to act, the audition schedule will be posted in late February and held in March. In the meantime visit "read a play " to scout what plays you'd like to audition for.      

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS

Announcing the 7^th Annual InspiraTO Playwriting Contest Winners:

All Your Bosses Are Belong To Chinese by Nelson Yu; Backfire by Leslie Powell;Beyond Where the Horizon Lies by Rod McFadden; Blondie by Meghan Gardiner; Broken English by Nina Ki; Camping Out by Anne Flanagan; For Your Viewing Pleasure by Greg Vovos; In Fine Print by Bara Swain; Missing by Robin Pond; Pigeons In Love by Jeff Carter; Positive I.D. by Peter Dickinson; Seen and Unseen by Maximillian Singh Gill; Seven Seconds Before the Conflagration by Jen Silverman; Standing at the Edge of the Universe of Disunity by Stanley Toledo; The Common Ground by Bryan Boodhoo; The Paper Swan by Amina Henry; YouTopia by Chaney Kwak (InspiraTO Playwriting Contest Winner).  

Runners Up. We want to give credit to the runners up.  Although we will not be producing these plays, they are worthy of mention: Blindspot by Ayesha Mansur, Dad’s Vision by Benjamin V. Marshall, Once Removed by Jani Brandli, Elephant Rock by Steven Mayoff, Cockpit by William Baer, Chalk by Greg Romero, Crossing Borders by Pat Montley, Psyche by Caitlin Hamilton, The Toxic Chemical Incident by Greg Gawaski, Excuse Me Mommy by Karen Hartline, Angel’s Flight by Jan O’Connor, Peter & Michael: A Fantasy by Grant Haralson, Four Stories Up by Susan Soon He Stanton and Skywriting by Amy Cuomo.  

Each year InspiraTO showcases the best ten-minute plays based on a theme of the senses. This year's theme is based on "vision."  A thank you to all the playwrights who submitted their plays.  A thank you to this year's jury which included Daniela Mazic, Lumir Hladik, Karen Elizabeth Michael, Tracey Beltrano, Marilyn Dickson and Dominik Loncar. 

This year we will be producing 24 ten-minute plays (17 from the Playwriting Contest, one Artistic Director's play and six from the Mentoring Project). 

I hope to see many of you taking part.

Cheers,

Dominik

The InspiraTO Festival, Canada's largest ten-minute play festival, now entering its seventh season, has produced 82 ten-minute plays with over 190 actors and 80 directors participating. The festival is dedicated to producing high quality ten-minute plays and making theatre more accessible for both artists and audiences.   

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