Clean Sheets is the new queer play workshop series produced by Screaming Weenie Productions, an award-winning professional queer theatre company in Vancouver, BC.  Clean Sheets is the annual event of original queer-themed plays by both emerging and established Canadian playwrights.  Plays will be selected from an open, nation-wide call for submissions. Previous playwrights have come from Guelph, Toronto, the Yukon and Vancouver.

The scripts will be workshopped and given a staged reading by professional directors and actors at the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver the week following Pride Celebrations 2010 (August 3 to 8).

In the weeks leading up to the festival, chosen playwrights will be teamed with a director/dramaturge in order to begin communication on dramaturgy and allow us to secure actors for the event.

If possible, one of the plays featured at Clean Sheets will be chosen to be part of Queerly Canadian Studio Production in Vancouver in 2010/2011.

OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Clean Sheets are:

• To promote and nurture the development of Queer-Canadian playwrights and original work
• To give theatrical form to issues that deal specifically with the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people
• To promote, through theatrical expression, compassion, empathy, and understanding