If you have a play in development that might be right for Odyssey’s summer stage, you can apply to our Play Creation Program to receive support developing your project.
We offer dramaturgy, workshops with professional actors, digital readings, live staged readings, one-on-one tutorials in special skills related to your project and support for funding programs.
David S. Craig’s Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia
Odyssey’s Artistic Director, Laurie Steven, and veteran multi-faceted theatre artist, Janet Irwin, are co-directors of the program. Both are seasoned dramaturges, playwrights and directors. They have experience in collaborative creation, masked performance, puppetry, physical theatre, international forms of dance-theatre and audio drama to help you develop your play.
Through our play development program, we have brought 29 original plays and new translation-adaptations for the stage or audio drama into full production. Previous participants include David Craig, Lib Spry, Kim Selody, Marty Chan, Emily Pohl-Weary and Jo Walton.
We support plays that are:
- full-length
- inspired by international myth and folktale
- created for masked performance
- suited to an outdoor stage
- written for a cast of 6-8 actors
- aimed at adult and young adult audiences
Apply for Odyssey’s Play Creation Program
If you have an in-depth treatment (10 pages), a detailed scenario (10+pages), or a full draft script that meets the above criteria, please send us a letter of inquiry and your resume by December 1st. Your letter of inquiry (max. 4 pages) should address the above points and include the following:
- stage of development of your play
- genre
- planned running time
- previous workshop or production history
- a list and brief description of characters (indicate doubling and gender swapping possibilities)
- plot synopsis
- performance style
If your project meets the company’s requirements, we will contact you to read your treatment or draft, then follow up to discuss the support we can provide.
You may qualify for financial support through Odyssey’s Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants for Theatre Artists and we can assist you with other funding applications.
Script Submission
If you have a great completed script for Odyssey, you are welcome to send your resume with a letter of inquiry addressing all the above points. We will contact you if we are interested in reading the script. We do not accept unsolicited scripts.
