Season 20 Pitches
Season 20 Pitches Important Info
Our yearly timeline will look a little different this Season! Please refer to this calendar for an overview of when the various shows will be rehearsing and performing to help inform your pitch.
We’ll be accepting pitches until July 31st, 2025. Selected applicants will be contacted for an interview.
Possible Shows to Pitch
For Season 20, our 20th Anniversary as a company, we will only be staging productions that have previously been performed in a Blue Canoe season! Please see this document for a full list of potentially productions.
Please note: if you are hoping to pitch an original show, or an alternative project (ie concert, dance project, etc), submit your pitch instead through the Juvenis Festival Pitches page.
Expectations of Project Leaders
As a Director/Project Leader, you are a representative of Blue Canoe and its values. As such, there are specific expectations and requirements of a Director/Project Leader:
To uphold the Blue Canoe mission statement throughout the entire process: creating process-driven opportunities for youth to learn transferable skills, and build community through our open-access programming.
To uphold the Blue Canoe values: Optimism, Kindness, Creativity, Respect, Passion.
To lead and collaborate with show team and company team members to to create and execute a wholistic creative vision for the show. Including: providing input on Production team hiring and casting; planning & leading rehearsals in collaboration with other rehearsal team leaders; providing input/feedback on designs; to maintain order within the Blue Canoe studio spaces.
Prior Theatre Leadership roles (ie Directing, Assistant Directing, Stage Management, Production Management, etc) are considered an asset.
Cast ages for each show:
Elementary show = Grades 1+
Middle School show = Grade 5+
Teen show = Grades 9-13
Adult show = Ages 18+
Please note: Some productions may be able to have Alumni (over 30yrs old) involved in the cast and/or Production Team for Season 20 shows only.
Submit your pitches below!
Contact info@bluecanoetheatrical.ca with questions.