WRITE-ON-Q

Our Annual, Full-Length Playwriting Competition

Next Deadline: September 8th, 2026

Every year, Infinithéâtre hosts a Québec-wide playwriting competition, receiving innovative new works from writers across the province and employing a jury of professional theatre-makers to select finalists. 

The winning script receives a cash prize of $2000, as well as a staged reading at The Pipeline, our annual staged reading series of plays that come down the development pipeline. Audience feedback, talkbacks, and the opportunity to watch scripts come to life provide invaluable feedback for future programming and script rewrites.

PREVIOUS WRITE-ON-Q WINNERS

  • Playing Against the House by Jeanne Potvin

  • Parricide / The Harpy by Jojo O’Neil

  • Leila Roils the Seas by Lily Chang

  • Hung Up by Tyson Night

  • Fix by Joy Ross-Jones

  • Vierge by Rachel Mutombo.
    Premiered with Factory Theatre, 2023.

  • Conversion by Alyson Grant
    Premiered with Infinithéâtre, February 2018.

  • Unseamly by Oren Safdie
    Premiered with Infinithéâtre, February 2014.

  • Extra / Beautiful / U by Michaela Di Cesare.
    Premiered with Infinithéâtre, 2023.

  • The Elephant Song by Nicholas Billon.
    Premiered at the Stratford Festival.

  • GAS by Jason Maghanoy.
    Premiered with Infinithéâtre, 2008.
    Remounted in Toronto, 2009.
    Translated for a 2010 Japanese production in Tokyo.

  • Blessed Are They by Bruce M. Smith.
    Premiered with Infinithéâtre.
    Winner of two MECCAs (Montreal English Critics Circle Awards), 2009 for Best Production and Best Actor.

  • Rabbit Rabbit by Amy Lee Lavoie.
    Tied for MECCA - Best Text, 2010.
    Winner of Revelation MECCA, 2010.

  • Disappeared by Leah Jane Esau.

  • Trench Patterns by Alyson Grant. Premiered with Infinithéâtre, 2012

  • Hangman by Jason Maghanoy.

  • Life Here After by Alexandria Haber.

  • Fatherland by Arthur Holden.