THE HERMAN VOADEN NATIONAL PLAYWRITING
COMPETITION WINNERS
The Drama Department at Queen’s University is delighted to announce the
2005 winners of the biennial Herman Voaden National Playwriting
Competition.
First Prize, $3,000 – Florence
J. Gibson for Missing
Second Prize, $2,000 – Emma C.
Roberts for Excellence, Ontario
Honourable Mentions : Closure by Ron Blicq, The Knowing Bird by Ron Chambers, City of Love by Alexander Ferguson,
Babka for Two by Pamela Main, The Dahl Sisters by Sara O’Leary, The Leaving Song by Michael
Reinhart, Wreckage by Sally
Stubbs, The Hum by Robert
Tsonos
Named for Canadian pioneer playwright Herman Voaden, this nation-wide
open competition is “blind”, meaning that the judges do not know the
identities of the playwrights until after they have selected the
winners and honourable mentions. Besides the cash awards, the First-
and Second-Prize-winning plays will receive script workshops produced
by the Thousand Islands Playhouse, and will then be presented as staged
readings in Kingston on Sept.30/05 and Oct.1/05. The
First-Prize-winning play will also be presented as a staged reading at
the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Oct. 2, 2005.
* ACTR member Anton Wagner's research on the history of the Frederick
Jacobi/Herman Voaden opera The Prodigal Son featured on The
Worlds of Herman Voaden website at the University of New
Brunswick, has resulted in a first place Google listing (out of
64,000) for the American composer Frederick Jacobi (1891-1952).