Montreal, Nov 12, 2008

1 - Season 10 Update: Boyz Nite OUT & LILI HANDEL
2 - Book Launch November 29, 2007: Queer Theatre In Canada
3 - Boyz Nite OUT Novembre 29 2007 at Cabaret Club Mado
4 - Auditions
5 - Other announcements

Season 10 Update

Thanks to all our ami(e)s chez OUT who joined us in October at Mainline Theatre for the Montreal touring comedy Clean Irene & Dirty Maxine by Toronto’s award-winning Independent Auntie Theatre. The “Aunties” are currently in residence at the Toronto Theatre Centre with a new creation called Breakfast , and OUT looks forward to seeing their new works in development. For “Aunties” fans that saw the show and would like more info on Clean Irene & Dirty Maxine or other Aunties programming, visit their web site at independentauntie.ca.

Book Launch – Queer Theatre In Canada

Queer Theatre In Canada
Jeudi, 29 novembre 2007 de 20h00 à 21h00
Cabaret Club Mado, 1115, rue Ste-Catherine est, Montréal
(coin Amherst, métro Beaudry)
Entrance fee: Free

Queer Theatre in Canada (the seventh volume of ‘Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English’ series) was already launched May 28th at the Playwrights Canada Press Luncheon and Book Launch in Saskatoon (Congress @ Univ. of Saskatchewan), alongside volume eight (Environmental and Site-Specific Theatre, ed. Andrew Houston) and volume nine (Space and the Geographies of Theatre, Michael McKinnie). Ric Knowles, General Editor of the series, was there to introduce all three volumes.

He made a special note that the critical volume on Queer Theatre in Canada with the two recent PCP gay and lesbian play anthology publications (Sky Gilbert’s anthology of gay plays & Rosalind Kerr’s anthology of lesbian plays) can now make a full course-pack on Canadian queer theatre. Visit playwrightcanada.com for upcoming ordering online.

Boyz Nite OUT – Cabaret Club Mado

Boyz Nite OUT: 10pm-Midnight followed by House DJ Francis Guy:
OUT’s 1st annual fundraiser celebrating men, men and more men!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 8pm, Cabaret Club Mado,
1115 St. Catherine St. E., Montréal (corner Amherst, metro Beaudry)
Info / reservation : 514.409.B.OUT or out.ca
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Screw the censors – it’s time for Boyz Nite OUT! Continuing its 10th anniversary season Queer Nation: Queer Creation, OUT Productions kicks off its first annual multi-disciplinary cabaret celebrating men – from all perspectives! A raw, en franglais evening of dance, music, spoken word, theatre and drag for naughty boyz and their girly-friends. The evening includes a VIP option, boy booths, a slew of door prizes from our community retailers, some surprise guest performances, and a few other dirty little secrets we can’t tell you (or Santa) about until you arrive. Stick around for the midnight groove at Montreal’s Cabaret Club Mado, in the heart of the gay village. Package warning label: some contents may contain nuts. Flash a jockstrap at the door for a 10% ticket discount on your ticket! All proceeds support OUT’s 2007-2008, 10th anniversary season as Montreal’s professional queer performing arts company. OUT is a registered Canadian charity and tax receipts may be issued for any donations over $10. Can’t make it? Send a donation at out.ca to show your support for OUT’s future.

• Host: Local celeb JOHN CUSTODIO, weekly host of CKUT Radio’s Queercorps
• Emcees: KING SIZE, Montreal’s exciting new drag king troupe.
• Artistic producer: David Allan King
• Production Manager and Stage Design: Martin Frost
• Technical Director and House DJ: Francis Guy
• Graphics: César Ochoa

Featuring multi-disciplinary performances by:
• KING SIZE
• ISAAC SAVOIE & LOUIS GUILLEMETTE
• BARRY WEBSTER
• NAT KING POLE
• DON BAPST
• & FROM GERMANY: KINGZ OF BERLIN’S FRONCK & KRIS

• Men and women welcome
• Tickets: $15 / Flash a jockstrap at the door and receive 10% off your ticket
• Groups: $10 (10+) / VIP Ticket: $25 (reserved seat, $10 tax receipt and a drink ticket)
• Info / reservations: 514.409.B.OUT / out.ca

Auditions

Nextfest: Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts festival of and for young emerging professional artists. For our purposes an emerging artist is under 30, has made a personal commitment to a career in the arts, is not yet recognized with professional associations, and is in need of professional development and exposure. There is no application fee or form. From playwrights, we are looking for un-produced scripts from anywhere at any level of development. For each submitted script, we would like to see a developmental history of the work, a personal assessment of its current state, and a proposed direction for its development. If we have to squint to read your script, we will be angry. Include accurate contact information on a TITLE PAGE. Number your single-sided pages while you’re at it. And don’t bind your script (that includes staples). >From local designers, directors, actors, stage managers, etc. we are looking for submissions that address your professional development goals that may or may not be attached to a specific project. Resumes, rants, & manifestos are welcome. DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS. For further information about the above call or for submissions in other disciplines (dance, music, visual art, non-script based performance, etc.) contact Festival Director: Steve Pirot: email nextfest@theatrenetwork.ca / phone (780) 453 2440.

Other Announcements

NEW EQUITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANNOUNCED
Arden Ryshpan has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
Arden Ryshpan was most recently with Directors Guild of Canada where she spent the past 4 years as Executive in Charge of Directors Affairs.

PLAYWRIGHTS’ WORKSHOP MONTRÉAL’s EMMA TIBALDO
After a comprehensive search, the Board of Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PWM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma Tibaldo as the new Artistic and Executive Director of PWM. Ms.

Tibaldo succeeds outgoing Artistic and Executive Director Paula Danckert.

MAINLINE THEATRE - GEOFF AGOMBAR
The newest member of the MainLine team - give it up and faites du bruit for GEOFF AGOMBAR, who will be MainLine’s Communications Director until the end of February. Re-bienvenue, Geoff! He’ll be taking care of p.r. and box office for our upcoming presentations, productions and co-productions, as well as helping coordinate the redesign of Mainline’s website.

ELSA BOLAM AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ARTIST, MONTREAL
Congratulations to Frances Balenzano, who at the recent meeting of the Quebec Drama Federation, won this year’s Elsa Bolam Award for an outstanding emerging artist.

QUEER MAP PROJECT MONTREAL
In order to create a radical queer and radical-queer-friendly map of queer montreal, we need to know the places, groups, web-sites where you fight, where you hang around, where you meet, where somebody can meet you, where you get yr biorganiclocal food, where you find information about anything.