Recommenders for Theatre Creators

Priorities
Culturally diverse playwrights/collectives, artists living with a disability; regional playwrights; projects/creators that align with our mandate - promote and preserve Canadian cultural heritage and history.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Theatre, interdisciplinary and intercultural performance approaches, as well as text-based work, originating from Latinx Canadian, newcomer, Indigenous communities and other racialized communities.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)

Deadline(s)

• November 15, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
New works in progress authored by artists from the Black and Brown diaspora.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Narratives that embrace the complexity, enormity and diversity of rural life. Blyth is especially interested in work that interrogates questions of Canadian identity.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Trans* and Gender Non-Conforming Identified Artists; Queer Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Identified Artists; 2SLGBTQ Identified Artists; Radical or Experimental Performance and Theatre.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 2, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Artists of colour and Indigenous artists, artists with disabilities, queer artists - particularly transgender and non-binary.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• October 21, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Multidisciplinary or Interdisciplinary Practice | Large Scale/Scope Projects| Contemporary Theatrical | Performance Practices and/or New Plays.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• October 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Works for young audiences and the very young, with priority to original works, projects by creators from diverse backgrounds, and artists living outside the Greater Toronto Area.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 6, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Applications that meaningfully engage with the diversity of our community, and are ambitious in form and scope.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Asian Canadian artists, artists of colour and women.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 15, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Artists who support our commitment to create live professional theatre that gathers, inspires, and entertains audiences. The Grand is World Curious and London-Made, and we are looking for stories that share our values of passion, rigour, innovation, inclusivity, respect and care.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 7, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
BIPOC and local artists, equity and opportunity for all; to provide meaningful support for under-represented communities in Ottawa's theatre scene.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• October 25, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Traditional and non-traditional contemporary projects that inspire critical thinking and present a theme or idea in a bold, new, and exciting way.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Creators from Scarborough, Durham and eastern Ontario. Creators that reflect our diverse community. Work that aligns with our mandate of reimagining classics. We take a purposefully broad definition of classics to encompass content, form, and history and we're interested in how creators are inspired by the past to create new work that speaks to the present moment.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample and/or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• December 6, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Community-engaged arts projects that involve theatre/performance and combine disciplines, forms and traditions, with a priority for artists from equity seeking groups and/or non-Toronto regions of Ontario.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample (optional)
• Audio/Visual (optional)

Deadline(s)

• December 18, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
As the only professional theatre in Northern Ontario, our priority is to tell stories that speak to the north as well as the broader Canadian population.  Additionally, we prioritize the development of new works by Indigenous playwrights from across Ontario.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Radical and imaginative theatrical arts; exciting works that challenge theatrical form, context, narrative and performance; work from Immigrants, IBPOC artists, LGTBQ+ artists, Fem-artists, artists with disabilities, and other historically & structurally marginalized artists; artists with exciting and fresh ideas we've never encountered.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample
• Audio/Visual (optional)

Deadline(s)

• December 9, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Projects by Indigenous, Black, Racialized, Newcomer, Immigrant, Refugee creators; artistic collaborations, collective creations, devised processes; interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, multilingual and physical theatre.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Native Earth prioritizes the funding of Indigenous artists. Culturally diverse artists are also encouraged to apply.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Diversity of storytelling (geographic/cultural/language/live-digital hybrids); Poetic, dramatic text; Dance; Performance events; Integration of music, especially vocal music; Exploration of dramatic forms - stretching dramaturgical boundaries.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)

Deadline(s)

• October 25, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
As a feminist theatre company, Nightwood encourages applications from women and gender expansive artists. We will be prioritizing folks from the Deaf and disability communities and IBPOC women in Ontario.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Black artists representing all intersections and at any stage in their careers.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 12, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Artists with projects whose style or method of creation relates broadly to the nature of Odyssey’s work (mask and movement based theatre, including: Commedia dell’Arte, physical theatre, bouffon, clown, puppetry, and international forms of masked dance-theatre). Writers and collaborative creators. Projects reflecting culturally diverse mask and movement art forms. We encourage applications from artists who self-identify as members of OAC priority groups.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 9, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Under-represented, emerging, and new generation artists, living and creating in Ottawa.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 13, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Diverse voices interested in immersive theatre, innovation in the form, and strong script-based materials.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample and/or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• December 13, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Projects new to Pat the Dog Theatre Creation from artists working and/or creating in Northern ON and Women-identified/Women-presenting/Non-binary Folk in Southwestern ON.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 6, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Interested in developing diverse stories and seeing more diversity on our stage. Still interested in aiding in the development of local playwrights. Also very interested in small scale musicals.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 7, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
The nurturing of professional, mid-career, new-generation, and culturally diverse artists with the development of works with puppetry: The integration of puppetry into theatre productions; the creation of new forms of puppetry and new theatrical uses of puppetry.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• October 28, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Theatre for Young Audiences and OAC Priority Groups

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)

Deadline(s)

• December 18, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Ambitious works that speak to the diversity of modern-day Canada, and to diverse artists and audiences.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 12, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Provocative and insightful text-based narrative explorations of contemporary social and political issues.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
New collaborative processes, multi-media, satire and the work of regional, BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ++ artists.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• December 16, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Supporting emerging book writers and storytellers of musicals.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Deaf, Mad and disability-identified artists.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Work that investigates who we are within local and global contexts that reflects the richness of our Canadian landscape; embracing a diversity of voices, points of view and artistic practice.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 13, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Musical theatre works only. Projects written by teams, where music is integral to the emotional journey of the characters.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• December 18, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Theatre Aquarius is a hub for creative conversation that celebrates possibility, engages community, fosters innovation and ignites future voices. We aim to support artists from or based in the Hamilton/Halton community.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• January 6, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Applications from emerging artists devising form-breaking work for TYA - including, but not limited to, work that is site-specific, immersive, participatory and/or involves the use of interactive digital media. Theatre Direct prioritizes applications from equity-seeking groups, including those who identify as: Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, Trans, Nonbinary, Queer, Disabled and intersections of those identities.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample and/or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 9, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Original contemporary works of multidisciplinary theatre, physical theatre, and/or new processes of theatre creation.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample and/or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
TPM will prioritize Artists of Colour, Indigenous artists, Deaf artists, artists with disabilities and Queer artists (which includes trans, gender non-conforming and gender non-binary). All genres of work are welcome, including text-based works and other discipline-led works (digital, movement, music, etc).

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
New work that reflects our cultural diversity, explores collaborative creation, and investigates the human condition with a unique theatricality.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 4, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Work of BIPOC artists and/or work by artists in Eastern Ontario and/or the development of new Canadian musicals.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• December 11, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Projects in development that focus on unique, innovative, and unexpected methods of storytelling that align with the Fringe Festival values. Artists/collectives using any range of creative processes (script writing or otherwise) in the development of new, previously unproduced works.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample and/or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is recommending comedy projects only. Specifically, we’re recommending the development of Sketch Comedy projects from an existing sketch troupe or a collection of comedians who want to collaborate on a comedy project. The project must be related to sketch comedy (scripted short-form comedy), solo sketch, clown, musical short-form comedy, or comedic drag (improv, stand-up, or productions of theatre scripts will not be recommended). We aim to support artists and comedy projects based in Toronto, and in Eastern Ontario (with a special focus on Hastings/Prince Edward County). We encourage applications from artists who self-identify as members of OAC priority groups.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• November 8, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Tottering Biped Theatre encourages projects by Hamilton artists that are in the late development phase and are nearing a workshop or production draft. We ask that successful applicants commit to inviting/including us as audience in the further development of your work.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)

Deadline(s)

• December 3, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Projects that focus on mentorship.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample

Deadline(s)

• November 29, 2024, 1 p.m. ET

Priorities
Artists who have lived, worked and played in Northern Ontario or who have some connection to regional, non urban centre communities.

Submission Instructions

You will be asked to submit the following items:

• C.V. (mandatory)
• Script Sample or
• Audio/Visual

Deadline(s)

• January 10, 2025, 1 p.m. ET