EDMONTON SCRIPT SALON

A MONTHLY PLAY READING SERIES

Since 2014, SCRIPT SALON has showcased some of the most talented theatre creators in Alberta. On the second Sunday of each month we feature a new play by an Alberta playwright read by professional actors at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

Over 58% of the plays read by Script Salon have gone on to full productions elsewhere.

WHEN:  The Second Sunday of Every Month at 7:30PM (unless otherwise noted)

WHERE:  Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037 84 Avenue, Edmonton

Free Admission – Refreshments – Playwright Talk Back - Parking is free

Sponsored and Supported by The Playwrights Guild of Canada and The Alberta Playwrights' Network.

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To submit a play for consideration, please send the script (90 minutes max) to edmontonscriptsalon@gmail.com.

 Script Salon Plays

2025

• JANUARY 12: Indigenous Playwrights

  • Maria Buffalo, Kiyam-ing

  • Shyanne Duquette, Skinhead

  • Deborah Lee, Not your Ordinary Love Triangle

  • Kendall Manyhorses, Ribbon Shirt Society

  • Olivia McCotter, Kitty & Tigy

• FEBRUARY 9: Lynda Celentano, Giorgi of the Jungle

• MARCH 9: APN BIPOC Playwrights

• MARCH 30: WWPT Springboards

2024

• JANUARY 14: Workshop West Theatre Indigenous Playwrights Circle: Josh Languedoc, Bret Jacobs, Monica Gate, Sheldon Stockdale

• FEBRUARY 11: Jan Taylor, Almost Therapy

• MARCH 17: 2023 APC Novitiate Prize Winner, Shaun Crawford, The Colour of Goodbye

• MARCH 31: Springboards Cabaret with WWPT

• APRIL 14: 10th Anniversary Monologues

  • Amir Shah, Sunsets

  • Madi May,  Pigeon

  • Rona Altrows, I’ll Die with my Bra on

  • Trevor Schmidt, Invitation to an Orgy

  • Louise Casemore, Undressed

  • Linda Wood Edwards, Gibberish v. Genius

  • Cat Walsh, Fetch

  • Marina Mair-Sanchez, Memories

  • Monica Gates, Donut Holes

  • Camille Pavlenko, Sweetbreads

• MAY 12: Mike Czuba, After Mourning, Before Van Gogh

• JUNE 16: Blaine Newton, Conversations with Cows

• AUGUST 4: Fringe Script Tease (Plays all produced at the 2024 Edmonton Fringe)

  • Jordy Wiens, At The Mercy of the Waves

  • Blaine Newton, Conversations with Cows

  •  Grace Fitzgerald, Carter and the Train

  • Angie Bustos, The Picture of Elias Graham

  • Tory Doctor and Melody McClellan, The Spark of Justice: A Tale of Arlyrus

  • Giulia Romano and Jonathan Ewing, Spin Cycle

  • Linda Wood Edwards, I, Diana

  • Corine Demas, The Oracle

  • Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt, Microwave Coven

• SEPTEMBER 8: Trevor Schmidt, Freestyle 

• OCTOBER 6: Tony Binns, Waiting for Waiting for Godot

• NOVEMBER 10: Mhairi Berg, Morningside Road

• DECEMBER 8: Michael Clark, Stephen Allred and Melenie Reid, And I’m Home: for the Holidays

2023

• JANUARY 8: Francis Damberger, Drowning Man

• FEBRUARY 12: Nicole Moeller, Old Mule

• MARCH 12: 2022 APC Sharon Pollock Award winner, Ellen Close, Life Below

• MARCH 26: Springboards Cabaret with WWPT

• APRIL 16: 9th Anniversary Playwright Readings PGC

  • Trevor Schmidt, Lady Porn

  • Althea Cunningham, The System

  • Neil Grahn, The Two Battles of Popemegabo

  • Reed McColm, The Road to Diddly Squat

  • Calla Wright, Wasteland Wonderland

  • Jan Taylor, Getting Therapy

  • Holly Turner, Dust

  • Lianna Makuch, Barvinok

  • Andrea House, Salsa Lesson

• MAY 7: Conni Massing, Dead Letter

• MAY 14: Louise Casemore, Blow Your House Down

• JUNE 11: Cat Walsh, Polo

• AUGUST 6: Fringe Script Tease (**The following were produced at the 2023 Edmonton Fringe Festival)

  • Trevor Schmidt, Lady Porn

  • Grace Fitzgerald, Manatee

  • Katie Yoner & Dana Lee Hoffman, Rat Academy

  • David Ellis Heyman, Bathsheba and the Books

  • Shawn Marshall, Flicker

  • Ellie Heath, Fake ‘n Bake

  • Ash Mercia, Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

  • Mhairi Berg, Morningside Road

  • AJ Hoorshkin, Train One to Coal Valley

  • Trevor & Darrin, Puck Bunnies

• SEPTEMBER 10: Ryan Roth, Fishing with Leeches

• OCTOBER 15: Katherine Koller, The Percussionist

• NOVEMBER 12: Harley Howard-Morison, Redd Meats

• DECEMBER 10: Cheryl Jameson, The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Ever

2022

• FEBRUARY 13: Liam Salmon, What made you think of the grass?

• MARCH 13: Tereasa Maillie, How to Make a Metis

• MARCH 19: Katherine Koller, Abby’s Place

• MARCH 27: Springboards Cabaret with WWPT

• APRIL 10: Lianna Makuch, Alina

• MAY 8: 8th Anniversary Playwright Readings PGC

  • Sara Campos-Silvius, Moonie & Maybee Dig up a Grave

  • Lebogang Disele, The Space Between

  • Vern Thiessen, Shakespeare’s Will

  • David van Belle, Love is Magic

  • Holly Lewis, The Three Sisters

  • Linda Wood Edwards, Chilicoot Pass

  • Darrin Hagen, Edmonton Queen/Metronome

  • Louise Casemore, Put Your Lips Together

• JUNE 12: Linda Grass, After Eve

• AUGUST 7: Fringe Script Tease (**The following were produced at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe Festival)

  • Blaine Newton, The Kyleness of Kyle

  • Stephen and Seth, Conjoined: A New Musical

  • Jessy Ardern, The Big Sad

  • Trevor Schmidt, Destination Vegas

  • Darrin Hagen, The Pansy Cabaret

  • Liam Salmon, Fags in Space

  • Z Parsons-Lozinski, The House that F*cks

• SEPTEMBER 11: Alexandria Rose Fortier, Just the Two of Us

• OCTOBER 16: Collin Doyle, Summer Solstice

• NOVEMBER 13: Leslea Kroll, Kingfisher Queens

• DECEMBER 11: Peter Adamski, Gish Gallop

2021

• JANUARY 10: BIPOC AB readings

  • Makram Ayache, The Hooves Belong to the Deer

  • Lady Vanessa Cordona, La sangre llama (Call of the blood)

  • Dale Lee Kwong, Ai Yah! and Master Oogam’s Blessing

  • Mukonzi Musyoki, Chanzo

  • Michelle Todd, Raising Perogies

• MARCH 14: 2020 APC Novitiate Prize Recipients

  • Katherine DeCoste, Many Hollow Mercies

  • Michelle Robb, Tell Us What Happened

• APRIL 11: 7th Anniversary Playwright Readings PGC

  • Blaine Newton, Skin Deep

  • Liam Salmon, Local Diva

  • May Kharaghani and Eric Rice, The Dance

  • Althea Cunningham, Sunkiss to Death

  • Belinda Cornish, Hiraeth

• MAY 16: Ken Williams, Paris, SK       

• JUNE 13: Kompany TYA Shorts

  • Judith Clark, Troll’s Wish

  • David Sklar, The Revil

  • Brett Dahl, Bee-Beautiful

• SEPTEMBER 12: Dana Wylie, The Makings of a Voice

• OCTOBER 17: Heather Morrow, Alex and Michael and Hannah                       

• NOVEMBER 14: Zack Siezmagraff, Other Duties as Assigned

• DECEMBER 12: James Hutchison, Masquerade

2020

• JANUARY 12: Clare Mullen, Next Sunday

• FEBRUARY 9: Au Tash Theatre, Anahita’s Republic

• MARCH 8: 2019 APC Novitiate Prize Recipient, Andrew Torry, The Miracle Queen

• SEPTEMBER 13: PGC/PlayConnect/CC

  • Josh Languedoc

  • Conni Massing  

  • Ellen Chorley 

  • Cat Walsh

  • Beth Graham  

  • Mieko Ouchi

• DECEMBER 13: James Hutchison, Under the Mistletoe

2019

• JANUARY 13: Jessy Ardern, Kit & Joe

• FEBRUARY 10: 2018 APC Novitiate Prize Recipient, Christine Lesiak, Space Between the Stars

• MARCH 10: Blaine Newton, The Bodice Ripper

• APRIL 14: Gerald Osborn, Bonobo Bacchanale & Hearth and Homer

• MAY 12: Trevor Schmidt, Robot Girls

• JUNE 9: Kompany TYA Shorts

  • Heather Morrow, Birds of Paradise

  • Jen Peebles, Maggie’s Wish

  • Andrea Ritter, Hatch

• JULY 14: Liam Salmon, Subscribe or Like

• AUGUST 11: Fringe Script Tease (**The following were produced at the 2019 Edmonton Fringe Festival)

  • Trevor Schmidt, Check me Out

  • Katherine Koller, Hope Soup

  • Blaine Newton, The Thin Grey Line

  • David Haas, Where Heroes Lie

  • Matthew Gusul, The Anal Stage

  • Gerald Osborne, Gossamer Feast

  • Giorgia Severini, Border Breakdown

  • Jessy Ardern, Queen Lear is Dead

  • Christine Lesiak, For Science

• SEPTEMBER 8: Bevin Dooley, In Camera

• OCTOBER 6: Reed McColm, Hole in the Sky                                              

• NOVEMBER 10: Mieko Ouchi, Burning Mom

• DECEMBER 8: Conni Massing, Oh! Christmas Tree

2018

• JANUARY 14: Blaine Newton, The Thin Grey Line

• FEBRUARY 11: Darrin Hagen, The Prime Minister and the Empress 

• MARCH 11: Conni Massing, Fresh Hell

• APRIL 8: 2017 APC Novitiate Prize Recipient, Becky MacDormand, Dark Am I, Yet Lovely

• MAY 13: Reed McColm, The Wrong People Have Money

• JUNE 10: Kompany TYA Shorts

  • Carolyn Ziegler, #contamination

  • Josh Languedoc, Rocko and Nakota: Tale from the Land 

  • Hitomi Suzuta, A Hare-Raising Ordeal

  • Kali Weber, Perception

• JULY 8: Matthew Gusul, Virgin on the Prairies

• AUGUST 12: Fringe Script Tease (**The following were produced at the 2018 Edmonton Fringe Festival)

  • Leslea Kroll, Wellspring

  • Gerald Osborn, Bed Bug Bossanova

  • Blaine Newton, The Five Stages of Death

  • Michele Vance Hehir, One Polaroid

  • Makram Ayache, Harun

  • D.Cheoros/LW Edwards, The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921

  • Andrea House, Sweethearts of the 49th

  • Chris Bullough, Rig Pig Fantasia

  • Jonah Dunch, Ahunwar: the Devil’s Long Nap

• SEPTEMBER 9: Katherine Koller, Hope Soup

• OCTOBER 14: Collin Doyle, The Takeoff

• NOVEMBER 11: David Haas, Stains

• DECEMBER 9: Carolyn Ziegler, The Goalie

2017

• JANUARY: Vern Thiessen, Pugwash

• FEBRUARY: Collin Doyle, Slumberland Motel

• MARCH: Andrea House, Chasing Willie Nelson

• APRIL 2: 2016 APC Novitiate Prize Recipient, Bevin Dooley, Deadstock

• MAY 7: David van Belle, Velvet Revolution

• JUNE 4: Darrin Hagen, 10 Funerals

• JULY 2: 2017 APC Grand Prize Winner, Michele Vance Hehir, The Blue Hour

• AUGUST 6: Gordon Pengilly, Flesh & Ghost

• SEPTEMBER 3: David Haas, The Visitor

• OCTOBER 1: Althea Cunningham, Sweet ‘N Nice

• NOVEMBER 5: Cat Walsh, Feast of All Saints

• DECEMBER 3: Rod Macpherson, Logic

2016

• JANUARY: David Cheoros & Linda Wood Edwards, Locovore 

• FEBRUARY: 2015 APC Grand Prize Winner, Ken Cameron, The Blogfather

• MARCH: The Mommy Monologues

  • Nicole Moeller 

  • Dana Rayment 

  • Conni Massing  

  • Michele Vance Hehir  

  • Cat Walsh  

  • Annette Loiselle  

  • Katherine Koller 

  • Beth Graham

  • Mieko Ouchi 

  • Andrea House

• APRIL: Karen Hines, All the Little Animals I have Eaten

• MAY: Blaine Newton & Leslie Greentree, Oral Fixations 

• JUNE: Gerald Osborn, Gossamer Feast & Epic Tragedy

• JULY: Reed McColm, Together Again for the Next Time

• AUGUST: Gerald St. Maur, The First Law & Solstice Mutiny

• SEPTEMBER: Paul Matwychuk, Bloodhound

• OCTOBER: David Haas, Crazytrain

• NOVEMBER: Leslea Kroll, Wellspring 

                          Rod MacPherson, Naked Tourists, Sacred Mountain       

• NOVEMBER: HTA Shorts

  • David Belke, The Apothocary’s Tale

  • Collin Doyle, Prediction

  • Nicole Moeller, Powder

  • Conni Massing, Fresh Hell 

  • Katherine Koller. Food is Love

  • Holly Turner, Dust

  • Blaine Newton, The Unkindest Cut 

  • Heather Morrow, Pure Oxygen

• DECEMBER: Conni Massing, Oh! Christmas Tree

2015

• JANUARY: 2016 APC Grand Prize Winner, Chris Craddock, Irma Voth

• FEBRUARY: Gerald St. Maur, Bend in the Road

• MARCH: 2014 Discovery Prize winner, Ryan Reese, Before the Night Takes Us

                  2014 APC Grand Prize Winner, James Wade, Helmut’s Big Day

• APRIL: Myrna Kostash, The Gallows is Also a Tree

• MAY: David Belke, The Deliberate Death of Sherlock Holmes

• MAY: PGC Shorts

  • Lyle Victor Albert, Lazy Boy 

  • David Belke, Connotation

  • Chris Craddock, Twinkle  

  • James de Felice, A Yard of Dreams

  • Darrin Hagen, The Last Picnic

  • Katherine Koller, Waterfall

  • Stewart Lemoine, Vague Harvest 

  • Reed McColm, The Mediation

  • Heather Morrow, My Boyfriend’s Cat

  • Blaine Newton, The Theatregoers

• JUNE: David Haas, Pacific Time

• JULY: Blaine Newton, Curtain Call

• AUGUST: Vern Thiessen, The Parables

• SEPTEMBER: Katherine Koller, Riverkeeper

• OCTOBER: James de Felice, Ladder to the Moon

• NOVEMBER: Darrin Hagen, The Glory, the Fury

• DECEMBER: Reed McColm, Together Again for the First Time

2014

• APRIL: 2013 APC Grand Prize Winner, Katherine Koller, Last Chance Leduc

• MAY: Blaine Newton, The Five Stages of Death

• JUNE: Darrin Hagen, Go West Young Man
  Honorable mention, APC 2015

• JULY: David Belke, The Hesitation Pitch
  Produced 2016: The Hesitation Pitch (Edmonton Fringe Festival 2016, The Kunitz Shoes
  Stage at Holy Trinity Anglican Church)

• AUGUST: Heather Morrow, The Ugly Princess
  Performed 2015: The Ugly Princess (Stage Struck! 2015)

• SEPTEMBER: Beth Graham, Eudoxie and Jeanne

• OCTOBER: Richard Gishler, At the Starlite

• NOVEMBER: Nicole Moeller, The Preacher, the Princess and A Crow
  Produced 2017: The Preacher, The Princess, And A Crow (Azimuth Theatre)

• DECEMBER: Conni Massing, Matara
  Published 2023: Matara: The Elephant Play (NeWest Press)