The 2024 Hart House U of T Drama Festival Monologue Competition

The 2024 Hart House U of T Drama Festival Monologue Competition is a virtual submission and live performance event intended to provide all U of T students a platform to share and promote their enthusiasm for creativity, storytelling and theatrical performance.

Submissions close Monday, October 21, 2024. Participants submit one recording of a comedic or dramatic monologue of their choice, 1 – 4 minutes in length. All participants will receive feedback from the Competition Judges and a shortlist of performers will be offered a live performance opportunity on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. Performers participating in the live event will receive a $25 gift card and the panel of Judges will choose the Top Three Performances, which are awarded an additional $25. The panel will also award a Most Improved Award and one Award of Merit from the remaining submissions not selected for the live performance opportunity.

The 2024 Competition will be judged by Rachel Cairns, Amanda Cordner, and Qasim Khan.

This Competition is a companion piece to the yearly Winter Term Hart House U of T Drama Festival which takes place on the historic Hart House Theatre Stage.

Learn more about all of Hart House Theatre's Student Festivals.

Eligibility:

1. You must be a current U of T Student to submit to the Competition. We welcome all levels of experience to participate.
2. A Monologue will be disqualified from receiving any awards if any person has been paid for working on any aspect of the production. It will be up to the discretion of the Festival Coordinator(s) and Hart House Theatre Staff to decide if a submission has had an unfair advantage.

Guidelines:

1. Content must be in the form of a: classical, contemporary, or Film/TV Monologue (dramatic or comedic). Original or established works are accepted.
2. Length is 1 minute minimum to 4 minutes maximum.
3. Please record in landscape format and submit as an mp4 file. If you are recording on a virtual platform like Zoom or MS Teams, please hide non-video participants (if any). Please submit raw unedited footage, shot in one take.
4. There is a limit of one submission per participant. The deadline to submit video content is Monday, October 21, 2024, at 11:59 pm.
5. Complete the Submission Form to include a list of content warnings.

Please note we reserve the right to use the submission content in part or whole, however there is no plan for public viewing of the Competition content.

Trying to find the right monologue? Check out our Resource List.

Never filmed a monologue before? Check out our How to Film Your Submission Video.