The 5th Annual InspiraTO Festival  June 3-13, 2010    Alumnae Theatre, Toronto

AUDITION FOR A TEN-MINUTE PLAY - 34 Actors Required!!!

The InspiraTO Festival has selected this year's line-up!  We require actors. If you live in the Greater Toronto Area and would like to act in a ten-minute play please go to the menu and visit call actors/directors for full details.  

We had 330 play submissions; plays that made us laugh, plays that made us reflect and plays that simply touched us. A special thank you to Lisa O'Connell, Molly Thom, Daniela Mazic and Lumir Hladik who were part of this year's Playwriting Selection Committee. 

Thank you to all the playwrights who submitted their plays.  We appreciate the work you put into your art. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS

The 5^th InspiraTO Playwriting Contest Winners:

This year's theme: Touch

A SIMPLE SNOW by Elaine Romero (1st Prize)  

STAY by Crystal Wood

MISTER BAXTER by Kate Fenton 

POKE by Angela Froese 

TOUCH OF BEAUTY by Ann Snead

PUSH by Adam Bradley 

THIN AIR by Tom Coash 

TWICE AS BRIGHT by Daniel Heath 

STUPID, AND TERRIBLE by Shannon Murdoch

THE KISS by Mark Harvey Levine

CLOSE ENOUGH by Matt Haldeman

THE LEDGE by William Borden

BAG OF BONES by  John Weagly

THE BODY ELECTRIC  by Dominik Loncar

Two ten-minute plays were commissioned by InspiraTO and dramaturged by Lisa O'Connell, Artistic Director,  

InspiraTO's Commission for an Established Playwright:  BUNGALOW by Vern Thiessen (Governor General's Literary Award)

InspiraTO's Commission for an Emerging playwright: A MAP of SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW by Adam Cowart

Honourable Mention                                                                                                                                                                                                                   We want to give credit to the runners up.  Although we will not be producing these plays, they are worthy of mention:                                            

Do Not Remove by Victoria Goring, They Never Touch by Ralph Tropf, The Four Senses by Arthur M. Jolly, The Last Affair of Laura Secord by Brad Lepp, Touchy Feely by Greg Vovos, Don't Touch by Bruce Sarbit, Get ‘er Done by Courtney Brooke Lauria, Pause at the Light by Aaron Henne, Daddy Yellow Piss by Celia Harding-Russell, Bugging the Bride by Claire Bon Enfant, Furball by Susan Stanton, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jillian Butler, Close Proxy by Deborah Chava Singer, Touchy the Clown by Michael W. Moon, Under Huddlestone by Andrea Lepcio.

Stay tuned for this year's festival (June 3-13): Two different shows with 8 ten-minute plays in each show, a ten-day playwriting contest held in May, and a finale of the best plays selected by the audience.   

In the next few months we will need 16 directors, 34 actors, technical, stage and front of house support.  Visit call for actors/directors for full details.

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Cheers,

Dominik

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