We are deeply grateful to everyone who applied to direct this year.
Announcing our Eighth Annual 10x10 Showcase Directors!
Announcing our Eighth Annual 10x10 Showcase Directors!
 Congratulations to all our playwrights for creating and submitting 34 original scripts to the Eighth Annual 10x10 Play InTENsive! For the next four weeks, jurors will review submissions. Selection results will be announced right here on our webpage, on Saturday, February 8th!
AUDITIONS coming up on March 28th!
Here's an exciting opportunity!
SATURDAYS: January 11th – February 29th @ 1:00 – 2:30 pm Andrew Cecon's course will help you unlock your creative process as a theatre artist. Script analysis provides the roadmap! Learn how to discover the playwright's intentions in a script and transform them into playable actions onstage. As an instructor, Cecon is known for adapting his course to suit the creative needs of his students. He will tailor-fit the training to help you develop your skills in acting. We consider this opportunity so valuable that we will adjust our Saturday schedule for 10x10 events to work around this class so you won't miss a single session! More information about the course and Andrew Cecon HERE To register, call 345-5552, visit the website, or stop by the box office.  Come play with us! You are invited to apply to direct
for the Eighth Annual 10x10 Showcase. Details and survey link on our Directors page. *Please apply by December 31st* Submission deadline: January 4th. Guidelines HERE.   Announcing the Eighth Annual 10x10 Play InTENsive! Send us your very best!
Submission guidelines and examples HERE Submissions FAQ and How to Write a 10-Minute Play  (Story by Michael Sobota)
The Seventh Annual 10x10 Showcase was presented on April 12 and 13 at Magnus Theatre. The showcase is a presentation of ten 10-minute plays by 10 playwrights. But 10x10 is much more than the showcase itself. The 10x10 team (Sheena Albanese, Jessica Krasnichuk, Nicholas Palinka, Jelena Psenicnik, and artistic director Cathi Winslow) offer playwriting workshops, followed by a script submission deadline in January, play and director selection, auditions, casting, rehearsals, and marketing. It is, in a very real, supportive sense, vibrant community animation. And Thunder Bay has responded enthusiastically, participating at all stages in the process and supporting the final showcase with sold-out performances. For practical reasons, it is impossible to critique all 10 productions. I will highlight here some of the strengths in this year's showcase. Susan Rogers, a returning playwright, asked several profound questions in her bright comedy Worth Less. What do we want? What are we worth? Perhaps even, who are we? ... READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE Announcing the Audience Favourite Awards for 2019: Thanks to our audience for three sold-out performances of the Seventh Annual Showcase--over 700 voters. Congratulations to all ten plays for a consistent high standard of theatrical storytelling. Here is how the audience voted: FIRST PLACE: Clicket (written by Amanda Doig; directed by Alison Miecznikowski; starring Tara Rowe, Christiana Joy Goetz Fidler, Jordan Blaxill and Dennis Dubinsky) SECOND PLACE: Worth Less (written by Susan Rogers; directed by Janis Swanson; starring Sheena Larson, Kelsey Agnew, Colin Stewart and Donna Simon) THIRD PLACE: Poor Yorick (written by Bronson Carver; directed by Thomas McDonald; starring Chris Jason, Mary Davis, Eric Laughton and Kirk Maurer) Clicket will be performed at the NOWW LitFest Awards Gala on Saturday May 11th at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.  Alison Miecznikowski, Christiana Joy Goetz Fidler, Dennis Dubinsky, Tara Rowe, Amanda Doig, Jordan Blaxill,
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