This digital collection contains plays shortlisted for the 2021 Tom Hendry Awards.
The Tom Hendry Awards, named for a beloved founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada took place online, with a Nominee Gala event hosted by Yolanda Bonnell on September 27, 2021 and the awards ceremony hosted by Carmen Aguirre on October 24, 2021.
Please note: the scripts appear as they were submitted to the Tom Hendry Awards in 2021. If you require an updated script for a production or other purpose, please contact PGC or the playwright.
This collection contains the following scripts:
The Robert Beardsley Award
We All Got Lost by Camille Intson
Happy Pills by Katrina Creelman
Statistics by Shreya Jha
The Playwrights Guild Drama Award
My Sister's Rage by Yolanda Bonnell
Five Red Hands by Dalbir Singh
RBC Emerging Playwright Award
Green Knight on the Frog River by Nicholas Guerreiro
The Frontliners by Zahida Rahemtulla
The Far-Off Edge of Things by Virginia Page Jähne
The Chris Tolley and Dharini Woollcombe Comedy Award
How Oscar Missed His Train (previously titled Fanology) by John Lazarus
Someone Like You by Christine Quintana
The Sharon Enkin Plays for Young People Award
Smallbots by Julia Lederer
Frozen River by Carrie Costello, Michaela Washburn & Joelle Peters
The following plays, which were nominated in categories in the Tom Hendry Awards in 2021, are not included in this collection.
The Playwrights Guild Drama Award
Pawâkan Macbeth by Reneltta Arluk
Dan School of Drama & Music (Musical) Award
In Real Life by Nick Green (with Kevin Wong as Composer and Co-lyricist)
Monoceros by Anton Lipovetsky (Music & Lyrics by Ben Elliott and Anton Lipovetsky, Book by Josh Epstein and Kyle Rideout, Adapted from the Novel by Suzette Mayr)
Cowboy Tempest Cabaret by Anton Lipovetsky (with Niall McNeil as Co-Creator & Lyricist and Lucy McNulty as Co-Creator)
The Chris Tolley and Dharini Woollcombe Comedy Award
Every Little Nookie by Sunny Drake
The Sharon Enkin Plays for Young People Award
The Problem with Pink by Érika Tremblay-Roy (Translated by Alexis Diamond)