From Cradle to Stage - New Play Festival

From Cradle to Stage is Walterdale’s new play reading program. Walterdale welcomes original play submissions from local playwrights and offers them the opportunity to share their work, gain audience feedback, and experience a workshop atmosphere through staged readings of their finished, original, and unproduced plays. These works should be between 10-60 minutes in length, of any genre.

This is also an opportunity for budding directors to get some experience directing these staged readings, and working closely with the Walterdale staff. You can check out our website for more information: here.

We are pleased to offer two types of tickets for this festival. You can purchase a general admission ticket for $10.00/show or $24.00 for a festival pass, getting you one ticket to each unique night of programming. 

Festival programming below:

May 20, 2025 and May 24, 2025:

Director: Donna Call

Hearts Left Open by Lee-Anna Semenyna; starring Karen Huntley, Corrie Gardner, Bernard Jentner, Sam Woolsey, Cathy Morse, Keerat Sarwara

Misfortune by Jennifer Kennedy; starring Danielle Goodleaf, Mariam Gill, Shauna Rebus, Laura Eschak, Kerry Campbell, Ali Muhammad Khowaja, Selena Janvier

Emergency Contact by Stephanie Swensrude; starring Marisa Scarbeau, Ryan Mattila, Taissa Polo

May 21, 2025, and May 23, 2025:

Director: Afrah Collier-Potts

The Entirely Plausible Adventures of Chuck and Harry by Jenna Greig; starring Kirk Starkie, Dalton Bryce Terhorst, Mélissa Masse

OMISIMAWIW by Shyanne Duquette; starring Jay Ferguson, Emily Lizotte, Melanie Ferris

Couch Surfing by Jake Tkaczyk; starring Justin Pitt, Anne-Marie Smyth, Anglia Redding, Bryce Littlechild

May 22, 2025, and May 25, 2025:

Director: Bob Klakowich

Searching For Reality by Andrew Doerksen; starring Yana Orchyshko, Dave Breakenridge, Kisa Mortenson, Jasper Walia, Tim Lo, Fiona Rutledge, Megan Reti

Parkade by Franco Correa; starring Casey Powlik, Kingsley Leung, Liz Janzen, Josh Young, Ethan Campos, Yana Orchyshko

A Car By Any Other Name by Christi Falk; starring Fiona Rutledge, Jasper Walia, Josh Young

New this year is the Walterdale Visual Arts Exhibition Program. For this adjudicated program, visual artists with a Walterdale connection will be invited to submit to have their works displayed on the lobby walls during the run of From Cradle to Stage readings.