Award winning Vancouver playwrights compete head to head in a live action writing challenge.

COMPETITIORS:

Hiro Kanagawa - Governor General Award Winner
Quelemia Sparrow – Award-winning playwright/actor
Sebastian Archibald - Itsazoo co-Artistic producer, award-winning playwright
Mily Mumford - Playwright/Screenwriter/scientist and artistic director of Nebula Company Theatre
Marcus Youssef- Simminovitch Award Winner and AD of Neworld Theatre
WHAT?
They have 1 hour to write a short script with subjects chosen by our very own audience, in the genre of speculative fiction. WHAT the F* is is speculative fiction? Narrative exploring real and important ideas about what is happening in the world right now, through an intelligent eye on the near future. Dystopian reality-esque. Examples: Black Mirror, 1984, the Handmaid’s Tale. Get it?

The playwrights write live at a table in front of the crowd, they have the option to use noise-cancelling headphones. While they are writing, we will be running a SCI-FI TRIVIA competition and the bar will be open. Audience members can buy one of the playwrights a drink!