The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial literary award, presented by Queen's University to plays by Canadian playwrights."Workshops focus on two winning plays". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 16, 1997. The award was created in 1997, funded by a bequest to the university by the late playwright Herman Voaden.
The competition awards a first prize of $3,000 and a second prize of $2,000. In addition to the cash prizes, both the first and second prize winners receive workshop productions of their play at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. Honourable mentions are also given.
Winners YearPlaywrightPlayResultRef. 1997 Brian Drader The Norbals Winner "Playwriting contest winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, May 6, 1997. Richard Sanger Two Words for Snow Second Prize Hiro Kanagawa Slants Third Prize 1999 Greg Nelson North Winner Anne Nothof, "Nelson, Greg". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 7, 2021. Robert Fothergill Borderline Second Prize Michael MacLennan The Shooting Stage Third Prize "What happens when the Shaw meets gay theatre?". National Post, December 11, 1999. 2001 Michael MacLennan Last Romantics Winner "Voaden playwriting winners announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, June 9, 2001. Kent Stetson New Arcadia Second Prize Sharon Cavanagh Mr. Outplacement Third Prize 2003 Jason Hall Eyes Catch Fire Winner "Queen's grad wins playwriting prize". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 25, 2003. Laurie Fyffe The Malaysia Hotel Second Prize 2005 Florence Gibson MacDonald Missing Winner Emma C. Roberts Excellence, Ontario Second Prize 2007 Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman Scratch Winner "A matter of lice and death". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2008. Kevin Loring Where the Blood Mixes Second Prize "The classes and the damage done". The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2008. 2009 David Egan Tom's-a-Cold Winner Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Gas Girls Second Prize "Preview: Gas Girls". Now, November 4, 2009. 2011 David James Brock Wet Winner "Intense, immersive Wet plunges you into postwar trauma". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2018. David Egan Yuri Gagarin Dreams of God Second Prize 2013 Jordan Tannahill Late Company Winner "The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Late Company". The Georgia Straight, November 13, 2014. Jessica Moss Next to Him Second Prize 2015 Norman Yeung Theory Winner Len Falkenstein Lac/Athabasca Second Prize 2017 Michael Kras The Team Winner Peter Hendra, "Film festival celebrates the great outdoors". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 19, 2018. Brian Drader Happy Second Prize 2019 Damian Tarnopolsky The Defence Winner Peter Hendra, "Plenty of plays taking place in the city this week". Kingston Whig-Standard, July 26, 2019. Marc-André Blanchard The Brothers Gentle Second Prize 2021 Jennifer Walton Gunplay (After the Gun Goes Off) Winner Zahida Rahemtulla The Frontliners Second Prize 2023 Brandon Zang Ah Wing and the Automaton Eagle Winner Alexander Steele Zonjic Community Standards or (Move Fast and Break Things) Second Prize
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