<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For Immediate Release</span></b><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">March 1, 2022</span></b><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Roedde House Museum Playwriting Contest 2022</span></b><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Roedde House Preservation Society is pleased to announce the launch of our Roedde House Museum Playwriting Contest 2022. <b>Submissions are now open for the best original interactive play using the historic Roedde house building as the stage! </b>Using
 the word “Haunted” as a theme, we encourage writers to create an 
interactive play that leads the audience through our heritage Queen Anne
 Revival style Victorian home on a journey of your own creation. The 
contest is open from <b>March 1 2022 to May 31, 2022</b> with the winning submission being announced late June / early July 2022 via our website and social media. </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Winner will receive an honorarium of $400 (sponsored by Ghostly Vancouver Tours </span><a href="https://www.ghostlyvancouvertours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.ghostlyvancouvertours.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">) as well as the opportunity for the play to be produced and run at Roedde House Museum during the Fall of 2022.<br><br><br></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission Requirements</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="color:black;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Play must be within a <b>maximum run time of 60 minutes </b>and <b>up to 4 actors</b> in the script</span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Can be an adaptation of an existing work (rights must be held by author) or an original work </span></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Judging Criteria</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="color:black;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Space (How well does the play fit into the house?)</span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Quality of Drama</span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Does it honour the history of Roedde House and Vancouver? Does it have an educational component (*bonus)</span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Budget Conscious  </span></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please email your questions and submissions to us via </span></b><a href="mailto:coordinator@roeddehouse.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">coordinator@roeddehouse.org</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> with the subject line“Playwriting Contest”.<br>** </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">An open house visit session will be arranged for Mid-late March for writers wanting to explore the space</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Communications Officer / Responsable des communications</div><div>Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale<br></div></div></div></div>