Deadline: May 15, 2026
Open to anybody but they give preference to people in the Vancouver area.
For over ten years, Ruby Slippers Theatre’s Advance Theatre Festival has developed and showcased five dramatic readings over five days of new works written and directed by equity-deserving artists. Many of these plays go on to be fully professionally produced.
If you are a playwright and your play is chosen to participate in the Advance Theatre Festival, Ruby Slippers Theatre, in partnership with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, will cover the costs of all rehearsals prior to the day of the reading, your technical rehearsal, promotion, theatrical venue, and all artists’ fees.
If you are a director interested in participating, please submit your resume and cover letter for consideration.
Playwrights: please send your play synopsis, brief bio, and a maximum fifteen-page script excerpt to info@rubyslippers.ca by May 15, 2026.
For over ten years, Ruby Slippers Theatre’s Advance Theatre Festival has developed and showcased five dramatic readings over five days of new works written and directed by equity-deserving artists. Many of these plays go on to be fully professionally produced.
If you are a playwright and your play is chosen to participate in the Advance Theatre Festival, Ruby Slippers Theatre, in partnership with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, will cover the costs of all rehearsals prior to the day of the reading, your technical rehearsal, promotion, theatrical venue, and all artists’ fees.
If you are a director interested in participating, please submit your resume and cover letter for consideration.
Playwrights: please send your play synopsis, brief bio, and a maximum fifteen-page script excerpt to info@rubyslippers.ca by May 15, 2026.
One submission per person, please. Successful candidates will be notified by June 15, 2026.
The 2026/27 Advance Theatre Festival will take place in January/Feb of 2027. Exact dates TBD.
Our Curator for ATF 26/27 is Faly Mevamanana. You can read about her here: https://www.rubyslippers.ca/about/artist-in-residence-2025-2026/
Priority will be given to inclusivity, considering all cultural backgrounds, orientations, identities, abilities, and ages.
The Advance Theatre Festival is brought to you by Ruby Slippers Theatre in partnership with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada. It takes place in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People.
The 2026/27 Advance Theatre Festival will take place in January/Feb of 2027. Exact dates TBD.
Our Curator for ATF 26/27 is Faly Mevamanana. You can read about her here: https://www.rubyslippers.ca/about/artist-in-residence-2025-2026/
Priority will be given to inclusivity, considering all cultural backgrounds, orientations, identities, abilities, and ages.
The Advance Theatre Festival is brought to you by Ruby Slippers Theatre in partnership with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada. It takes place in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People.