Chinook Region
Festival History
2022 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
From left to right, Jac Elfring and Jocelyn Steinborn - Best Play "Buying a Brassiere" by Rebecca Ritchie, and Kate Connolly - Best Actress for "Priscilla Pringle's Predicament" by Ed Bayly.
2020 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
The Chinook Regional One Act Festival for 2020 was to be held Tuesday, May 5 and Wednesday, May 6th at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, hosted by Playgoers of Lethbridge.
2019 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
The 2019 Chinook Region One Act Festival was held March 29 and 30th at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre in Lethbridge. Contact Rita Peterson (ritapeterson2011@gmail.com) or Kate Connolly (kate.connolly@alumni.uleth.ca) for more information.
Best Play - The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
The cast consisted of Cole Fettig and Josh Hammerstedt
Best Director - Mary Lynn Muhly
Best Male Actor - Brent Clark in At the Mercy of the Waves
Best Female Actor - Tracy Wyman in Falling Through Time
Best Original Script - Jordy Wiens in At the Mercy of the Waves
2018 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
2018 Festival was held April 6 at CASA
Adjudicator - Greg MacArthur
Winning Play - Helen by Megan Couch (New Work)
Best Female Actor - Jocelyn Steinborn in Love's Best By?
Best Male Actor - John Tasker in Helen
2017 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
The festival happened Saturday, April 8, 7:00 pm at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre
Adjudicator - Sharon Peat
Best Play (original script) - Portraits Past Drowning by Alexandra Long
Best Actor - Connor Christmas in What Did You Do? (Original script, collective creation by Dynamic Pupil)
Best Actress - Jocelyn Steinborn in Two Fools Who Gained a Measure of Wisdom by Tim Kelly
2015 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
March 13 at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, Lethbridge
Adjudicator - Doug Macarthur
4 entries, 3 of which were original scripts
Audience of 90+
Awards:
Best Play - Feed Me Diamonds by Beans Theatre, directed by Alisha Van Wieren.
Best New Work - Feed me Diamonds by Jay Northcott
Best Male Actor - Benjamin Wayne Goodwin in Feed me Diamonds
Best Female Actor - Meredith Pritchard in Feed me Diamonds
2014 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
March 24 & 25 at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, Lethbridge
Adjudicator - Gail Hanrahan, University of Lethbridge Theatre Department
Outstanding Production: Co-Workers by A.J. Baragar. Thugwork Theatre, Director Cassandra Watson
Alberta Playwrights Network 'Best New Play' Award: Co-Workers by A.J. Baragar
Best Male Actor: Colin Dingwall (Co-Workers - Thugwork Theatre)
Best Female Actor: Josephine Christensen (A Kind of Fabulous Hatred - Koru Productions)
There were 5 entries and audience of 180.
2013 Chinook Regional One Act Festival
Chinook One Act Festival took place Fri April 19 & Sat April 20 at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre in Lethbridge. We had 7 entries and total audience of about 200. Our adjudicator was Gail Hanrahan, Theatre Arts Prof at U of Lethbridge, and an accomplished actor and director.
Best Overall Play: The Tighty-Whities do... Death by the Tighty-Whities
Cast Kelly Malcolm and Emma Sinclair, directed by Kathryn Smith. This play went on to win best overall play at the Provincials in High River.
Best female actor - Kelly Malcolm
Best male actor - Justin Masson
New Play award - Ed Bayly for gone but not forgotten