Abby Theatre Fest Applications
September 21–24, 2022
A Celebration of Theatre & Film
About the Festival
Abby Theatre Fest is a curated, fringe-style event featuring original films created by performing, literary and visual artists, and, making a triumphant return in 2022, short, one-act plays produced by theatre artists and performed live at the festival.
Branded as “Something Different | Something Edgy”, the festival allows us as a theatre to explore themes and content that may not reach our mainstage but are none-the-less important to us as a faith-based theatre.
Our hope is that the festival will stretch boundaries and encourage risk-taking while reflecting the mandate of Gallery 7 Theatre, which is to explore the spiritual, relational and social aspects of the human experience with a vision towards hope, reconciliation and redemption.
The festival is also a chance for those thinking about directing on our mainstage some day to showcase their work and gain some valuable experience.
The 2022 festival is scheduled for September 21 – 24, 2022.
Submission Deadline: June 15
Play Submissions
Submissions may be a published or unpublished work or an original play. Original plays, and plays by Canadian playwrights, are especially encouraged and will be given special consideration. We encourage artists to submit a ‘first’ and ‘second’ choice.
Read the submission guidelines below!
Play Submission Guidelines
Film Submissions
Submissions can be an original serious or comedic monologue, a short, scripted original film, an original movement piece set to original music, a dramatic reading of your own short story or series of poems, a dramatic reading of a short play you have written, a series of songs you’ve written and can perform based on a theme important to you, or whatever your creative genius comes up with.
See submission guidelines below!