Theatre; Just Because is proud to present the 2025 Alberta Drama Festival Association (ADFA) North Region One Act Play Festival: Acting Out!, coming to King Street Theatre on March 15, 2025. 

The 2025 festival is made possible through a partnership with Swamp Rat Experience, providing a vibrant new home for Acting Out! at King Street Theatre.

This year, we are accepting 3 to 4 submissions, depending on the running times of each production. A minimum of two unique productions are required for the festival to proceed. Festival acceptance is first-come, first-served. If we receive more submissions than space allows, additional entries will be placed on a waiting list in the order they are received.

Registration Requirements:

  1. Deadline:
    Submit a completed registration form (found here) no later than Friday, January 31, 2025, with a $25 non-refundable registration fee.

  2. Play Requirements:

    • Entries must be one-act plays (no adaptations or excerpts).

    • Running time: 10-60 minutes.

    • Setup: 10 minutes; Strike: 5 minutes.

  3. Participants:

    • Casts should predominantly consist of adults from the North Region.

    • Established works require performing groups to handle royalty payments.

    • Full members of professional arts unions (e.g., CAEA) are not eligible to participate.

  4. Technical Needs:

    • One venue technician will operate lights and sound.

  5. Submission Materials:

    • Final script, cast, and production team details should be submitted no later than February 14, 2025.

Performance Scheduling:
We will strive to accommodate requests but advise all performers to be available for the day of the festival (March 15, 2025).

Rules and Regulations:
All participants must adhere to ADFA Rules and Guidelines, available on the ADFA website: https://www.adfa.ca/rules-and-regulations.

Awards and Recognition:

Awards include:

  • Outstanding Production

  • Outstanding Direction

  • Outstanding Performances

  • Outstanding Technical Merit

  • Outstanding New Work

The Outstanding Production winner, selected by a professional adjudicator, will represent the North Region at the Provincial One-Act Festival in Medicine Hat in May 2025.