The 2024 Edele Winnie
Women's Monologue
Competition
- CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S WINNER -
MAGGIE MARCHENKOWSKY
MAGGIE MARCHENKOWSKY
The Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition is an annual event that aims to give actresses from the Windsor-Essex region an opportunity to show audiences and theatre professionals the best of their acting talents – and win some cash in the process!
HOW IT WORKS
Each contestant will select and rehearse a brief (3-5 minute) monologue from award-winning playwright Edele Winnie’s third book of original monologues, OTHER MOTHER GOOSE: Monologues for Women, published through Amazon in paperback and e-book editions.
To ensure that everyone gets a chance to do their very best on stage, each contestant will receive up to two coaching sessions at The Shadowbox Theatre prior to the performance nights.
OTHER MOTHER GOOSE: monologues for women can be read/purchased via amazon.ca HERE
THE LIVE EVENT
At the live event, contestants will perform their monologue each night to a panel of judges, as well as a live audience. Both judges and audience members will submit scores for all contestants. Winners will be determined based on the final scores tallied across both nights. The judges’ scores and the audience’s scores are each worth 50% of a contestant’s final score.
Once scores from both performances have been tallied and combined at the end of the second performance, winners will be announced and CASH PRIZES bestowed.
The gold level winner will receive $300.
The silver level winner will receive $200.
The bronze level winner will receive $100.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday, 22 March 2024 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, 23 March 2024 @ 8:00 pm
COMPETITION ELIGIBILITY
Contestants must be women, non-binary, and/or gender fluid
Contestants must be at least 18 years of age as of 1 January 2024
Contestants must live and/or work in the Windsor-Essex region
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Complete submissions must be received via email ([email protected]) including:
1 – Contestant’s name, age, email address, phone number
2 – Contestant’s top three monologue choices from Edele Winnie’s Other Mother Goose: monologues for women, in order of preference, including the name and page number of each monologue chosen
3 – $20 entrance fee (to be paid via e-transfer to [email protected])
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to time constraints we are limited to 16 contestants in the 2024 Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition so registrations will be accepted on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis. However, if your registration is receive after the event has reached its contestant capacity, you will have the option of being placed on a waiting list in case a contestant needs to drop out of the competition. The entry fee will not be charged unless you are moved from the waiting list into the contestant pool.
To ensure all potential contestants have access to the competition regardless of their economic circumstances, Post Productions encourages members of the community who wish to SPONSOR POTENTIAL CONTESTANTS (by paying their entrance fee) to contact us at [email protected])
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
10 February 2024
HOW IT WORKS
Each contestant will select and rehearse a brief (3-5 minute) monologue from award-winning playwright Edele Winnie’s third book of original monologues, OTHER MOTHER GOOSE: Monologues for Women, published through Amazon in paperback and e-book editions.
To ensure that everyone gets a chance to do their very best on stage, each contestant will receive up to two coaching sessions at The Shadowbox Theatre prior to the performance nights.
OTHER MOTHER GOOSE: monologues for women can be read/purchased via amazon.ca HERE
THE LIVE EVENT
At the live event, contestants will perform their monologue each night to a panel of judges, as well as a live audience. Both judges and audience members will submit scores for all contestants. Winners will be determined based on the final scores tallied across both nights. The judges’ scores and the audience’s scores are each worth 50% of a contestant’s final score.
Once scores from both performances have been tallied and combined at the end of the second performance, winners will be announced and CASH PRIZES bestowed.
The gold level winner will receive $300.
The silver level winner will receive $200.
The bronze level winner will receive $100.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday, 22 March 2024 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, 23 March 2024 @ 8:00 pm
COMPETITION ELIGIBILITY
Contestants must be women, non-binary, and/or gender fluid
Contestants must be at least 18 years of age as of 1 January 2024
Contestants must live and/or work in the Windsor-Essex region
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Complete submissions must be received via email ([email protected]) including:
1 – Contestant’s name, age, email address, phone number
2 – Contestant’s top three monologue choices from Edele Winnie’s Other Mother Goose: monologues for women, in order of preference, including the name and page number of each monologue chosen
3 – $20 entrance fee (to be paid via e-transfer to [email protected])
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to time constraints we are limited to 16 contestants in the 2024 Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition so registrations will be accepted on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis. However, if your registration is receive after the event has reached its contestant capacity, you will have the option of being placed on a waiting list in case a contestant needs to drop out of the competition. The entry fee will not be charged unless you are moved from the waiting list into the contestant pool.
To ensure all potential contestants have access to the competition regardless of their economic circumstances, Post Productions encourages members of the community who wish to SPONSOR POTENTIAL CONTESTANTS (by paying their entrance fee) to contact us at [email protected])
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
10 February 2024
CONGRATULATIONS to all participants of the 2022 and 2023 Edele Winnie Women's Monologue Competitions!
For details and photos from past competitions, click on the corresponding images below:
For details and photos from past competitions, click on the corresponding images below:
