Playing May 20 – 25, 2025
From Cradle to Stage
Festival Coordinator: Shawn Marshall
Submissions: TBA
From Cradle to Stage is Walterdale’s new play reading program. Walterdale welcomes original play submissions from local playwrights and offers them the opportunity to share their work, gain audience feedback, and experience a workshop atmosphere through staged readings of their finished, original, and unproduced plays. These works should be between
10-60 minutes in length, of any genre. This is also an opportunity for budding directors to get some experience directing these staged readings, and working closely with the Walterdale staff. Look for the call for submissions for playwrights and directors for the fall of 2024, with the festival in late spring of 2025.
New this year is the Walterdale Visual Arts Exhibition Program. For this adjudicated program, visual artists with a Walterdale connection will be invited to submit to have their works displayed on the lobby walls during the run of From Cradle to Stage readings. A call for artists to submit for consideration will be announced in the fall of 2024.
CAST & PLAYWRIGHTS
Announcing our selected plays and playwrights for the 2025 From Cradle to Stage Festival.
| Parkade by Franco Correa A Car By Any Other Name by Christi Falk Couch Surfing by Jake Tkaczyk | Dramaturge Darrin Hagen |
| OMISIMAWIW by Shyanne Duquette Misfortune by Jennifer Kennedy Hearts Left Open by Lee-Anna Semenyna | Dramaturge Beth Graham |
| Searching For Reality by Andrew Doerksen Chuck and Harry by Jenna Greig Emergency Contact by Stephanie Swensrude | Dramaturge Heather Inglis |
A Call for Directors for the Festival will be released soon, followed by a call for actor submissions in the new year. Please stay posted.
PRODUCTION TEAM
| Production Team Member | Role |
|---|---|
| Shawn Marshall | Festival Coordinator |