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2002

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

  • “It's Going Around" by Stephen Atkinson
  • "Outside the Box" by Charmaine Cadeau
  • "Hully Gully at the Chemists" by Ryan Conway
  • "Opportunity Knocks" by Jeremy Gorman
  • "Hibiscus" by Holly Luhning

Main Stage Productions

  • Workshopped Production of “Fathers and Sons” by Don Hannah – Directed by Ilkay Silk
  • “Happy City” by Len Falkenstein

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings of New Plays

  • “The Morning Bird” by Colleen Wagner – staged reading
  • Jenny Munday
  • Don Hannah

 

2003

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

  • “Point A to Point B” – by John Ball – directed by Andrew Jones
  • “Outstanding Balance” by Jennifer McGrath Kent – directed by Jordan Trethewey
  • “Sunflowers” by Charmaine Cadeau – directed by Jennifer Roberge Renaud
  • “The Sill” by Kyle Peters – directed by Matt MacLean
  • “The Creative Process” by Jay Rawding – directed by Katie Mulholland

Main Stage Productions / Musicals

    • Free Fall” by Len Falkenstein – directed by same
      1. "Plastic – the musical” (Staged Reading of Act One) by Tania Breen, Tony LePage, Leigh Rivenbark – directed by Leigh Rivenbark
      1. “Tighten the Traces” by Robbie O’Neill – directed by same

One-Act Competition Winners

  • “Take” by Ryan Griffith – directed by Ron Kelly Spurles
  • “Burnt Offerings” – by Sherry Coffey and Ian LeTourneau – directed by Ron Kelly Spurles

2004

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

    • Spare Change” by Dan Gleason – directed by Dan McGratten
    1. “The Father and Floozy Fiasco” by Stephen Taylor – directed by Corey Nolan
    2. “The Act of Living” by Kyle B. Peters – directed by Andrew Jones
    3. “Clover” by Stephanie Yorke – directed by Stephen Taylor
    4. “Irk” by Ryan Griffith – directed by Nicholas Cole

One-Act Competition Winners

  • “Paratrooper” by Mark Jarman – directed by Cordula Quint
  • “Even Cowgirls get Hitched” by Jennifer Roberge-Renaud – directed by Ron Kelly Spurles

Main Stage Productions

    • “Inspiration Point” by John Garfield Barlow – directed by Ilkay Silk
    1. “Empreintes (Traces) – by Paul Bossé – translated and directed by Glen Nichols

2005

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

    • “The First Principle”  by Kyle B. Peters – directed by Lillian Drysdal
    1. “You, in a Restaurant” by Stephanie Yorke – directed by Kate Chapman
    2. “Shoes that aren’t red” by Step Taylor – directed by Seann Murray
    3. “Beginning, Middle, End” by Sarah MacAulay – directed by Chelsea Seale
    4. “The Alien Mind-Control Future Laser” by Jill Connell – directed by Step Taylor

Main Stage Productions / Musicals

  • “Plastic the musical” (Full Production) by Tania Breen and Tony LePage – directed by Leigh Rivenbark
  • “Morning Bird” by Colleen Wagner – directed by Bill Lane

One-Act Competition Winners

    • ¿Donde esta mi cerveza? by Patrick Toner – directed by Len Falkenstein
    1. “A Dog! A Panic in a Pagoda” by Jill Connell – directed by Caleb Marshall

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings of New Plays

    • “Pine” – by Ryan Griffith
    1. “Infinite Space” by Adam Noble
    2. “Sure they do, Eugene” by Step Taylor
    3. “How’s it Going” by Kyle B. Peters and Jordan Trethewey

2006

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

    • “Family Time” by Kyle Peters – directed by Bridget Spence
    1. “Rickshaw” by Stephanie Yorke – directed by Brianne Gulley
    2. “Pass the Glove” by Jeremy Gorman – directed by Michael Holmes Lauder
    3. “Manic Chiropractic by Chris Fulton – directed by Chris Nyarady
    4. “Slap my Vitals!” by Step Taylor – directed by Derek Nason

Main Stage Productions

  • “Lutz” by Ryan Griffith – directed by Emma Tibaldo
  • “Nights Below Station Street” – adapted and directed by Caleb Marshall

One-Act Competition Winners

    • What you would do” by Decima Mitchell – directed by Jordan Tretheway
    1. “The Shark Tumor Collection” by Jill Connell – directed by Len Falkenstein (Co –director Seann Murray)

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings of New Plays

  • “The Moving Star of Hollywood, PEI” by Rick Merrill – staged by Ron Kelly Spurles
  • “Not Really Eden” by Seann Murray
  • “Lemon Lime Light” by Adam Noble
  • “Stay Away from my Mother!” by Kyle B. Peters and Jordan Tretheway

2007

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

  • “Making the Sale” by Christopher M. Campbell – directed by Justin Read
  • “Gamer’s Manifesto” by Chris Fulton – directed by Christopher Campbell
  • “Do you believe?” by Chris Nyarady – directed by Brianne Gulley
  • “Nothing Fun” by Heather Masson – directed by Michelle Dunster
  • “So Imaginative” by John Ball – directed by Mandy MacLean

Main Stage Productions

    • “Lifedream” by Herménégilde Chiasson (translated by Jo-Anne Elder) – directed by Anne Tibaldo
    1. “Futures” written and directed by Len Falkenstein

One-Act Competition Winners

  • “Black Swan” by Matthew Leslie – directed by Jordan Trethewey
  • “Screefing the Rogue Wilds” by Kathleen Brown – directed by Michael Holmes-Lauder

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings of New Plays

    • “Car 7 Where are you?” by Bruce Allen Lynch
    1. “Drift” by Ryan Griffith
    2. “Anything about Anything” by Bradley O’Donnell
    3. “Ten Years” by John Spurway
    4. “Chapel Arms” by Step Taylor

2008

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

    • “Our Day in the Sun” by Brad O’Donnell – Directed by Annick Noel
    1. “Rock it Science” by Christopher Campbell – Directed by Tyler Folkins
    2. “Doommates” by Jeremy Gorman – directed by Jordan Dashner
    3. “Socially Correct” by Jordan Dashner – Directed by Kathleen Heaney
    4. The 5th Wall by Chris Nyarady – Directed by Matthew Hines

Main Stage Productions

  • “Chapel Arms” by Step Taylor – directed by Rose Plotek

One-Act Competition Winners

  • “Our Mouths are Filters: Documenting in the Brink” by Kathleen Brown – directed by Justin Read, Assistant Director Len Falkenstein
  • “Someone else’s Dream” by Jeff Lloyd – directed by Matthew Spinney

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings on New Plays

  • “Cabin in the Woods” by Christopher Campbell
  • “Wharf” by Ryan Griffith
  • “The Takeoff” by Kyle Peters
  • “Hide and Go Sell” by Chris Nyarady
  • “For the Benefit of All” by Jordan Dashner

2009

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

  • “When the Bus Comes” by Andrea Gigeroff – directed by Matthew Spinney
  • “Rooks and Pawn Things” by Jacob Martin – directed by Warren Macaulay
  • “Hench’d” by Chris Nyarady – directed by Dave MacDonald
  • “Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time” by Jason Swan – directed by Jordan Dashner
  • “Dragon Slayer for Hire” by Maddox Campbell – directed by Leah Holder

Main Stage Productions

    • “On and Off the Shelf” by Marcel-Romain Thérlault (Translated by Jo-Ann Elder) – directed by Marshall Button
    1. “Nomentacke” by Mark Blagrave – directed by Charles Rhindress

One-Act Competition Winners

    • “Heart-Shaped Boxes” by Erin Keating – directed by Seann Murray
    1. “The Nicest Place in England” by Bruce Allen Lynch – directed by Michael Holmes-Lauder

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings on New Plays

    • “CIV” by Ryan Griffith
    1. “The Hanged Man” by Matthew Heiti
    2. “Peter and John vs The Game” by Nick Morrell
    3. “Agamemnon’s Children Cry” by Jordan Dashner
    4. “Conrad and Barbara” by Lex Gigeroff

2010

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

    • “Body in the Barracks” by John Ball – directed by Stefan Folkins
    1. “The Peanut Butter Formula” by Dennis Poirier – directed by Becky Forbes
    2. “Sadie Meets her Match” by Kathy Mac – directed by Christine Bissonnette
    3. “Train Ride” by Michel Milech – directed by Thomas Fanjoy
    4. “Clown College” by Chris Nyarady – directed by Madeleine Whalen

Main Stage Productions

  • “Demolitics” by Ryan Griffith – directed by Emma Tibaldo
  • “Alden: A Found Play” (Staged Reading) by Rick Merrill – directed by Len Falkenstein

One-Act Competition Winners

  • “Hardwire” by Chris Fulton – directed by Matthew Spinney
  • “Christmas Break” by Michael Milech – directed by Clarissa Hurley

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings on New Plays

  • “Never Drive East Before Noon” by Jenny Munday
  • “The Devil’s Advocate” by Ted Boothroyd
  • “The Third Life of Eddie Man” by John Spurway
  • “The Perfect Woman” by Bruce Allen Lynch

2011

Taking it to the Streets - Competition Winners

  • “Just a Minute” by Jason Russell – directed by Ryan O’Toole
  • “Sensitive People in Coffee Shops” by Step Taylor – directed by Kelsey Wilson
  • “A Dancer on this Earth” by Kathy Mac – directed by Nicole Gordon
  • “Keep on Trollin’” by Chris Nyarady – directed by Jon Quinn

Main Stage Productions

    • “Alden” by Rick Merrill – directed by Mary Vingoe

One-Act Competition Winners

    • “Walking to Idaho” by David Wojcik – directed by Chris Nyarady
    1. “Hide and Go Sell” by Chris Nyarady – directed by Jordan Dashner

Street Scenes: Site-Specific Plays

  • “Veiled Threat” by Bruce Allen Lynch – directed by Len Falkenstein
  • “Eight Expanding Moments or The Abortion: A Canadian Western” by Jill Connell – directed by Len Falkenstein
  • “E-Hour in F-Town” by Ryan Griffith – directed by Len Falkenstein
  • “Key to the City” written and directed by Len Falkenstein

Dance Theatre Work

    • “A Bee Sees” written and performed by Zita Nyarady

Play Out-Loud: Free Readings on New Plays

  • "The Woodcutter" by Don Hannah
  • "Dan Doesn't Meet the Mothman" by Jake Martin
  • "Memoria" by Shane MacMillan
  • "The Regal Marionette" by Jared Mallard