Director Callout Director Callout for Fireworks Rehearsal Dates: May 17 and May 18, 2025 Show dates: May 21 – May 23 Venue: Rangshala Studio, 251 Ave Pins O, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1R6 The deadline to submit is March 28, 2025 at 12pm through the form below. Montreal-based directors only. This is an Equity staged reading. The Fireworks Playwrights’ Mentorship Program is a 6-month playwriting intensive where writers develop new scripts from the idea stage into a complete first draft to be presented in a reading at the end of the unit. This may, eleven writers will showcase their new scripts-in-progress in front of a live audience. We are looking for around four directors to assist with providing minimal blocking and to do character work with actors for each play they will be assigned. Teesri Duniya Theatre was founded on the principles of socially engaged work and is committed to being an inclusive and brave space for artists. If you are experiencing difficulties or challenges accessing this submission and/or fulfilling its requirements, please let us know and we will do what we can to provide you with assistance. The Smart Amour by Hiba Sleiman is a daring experimental play. It tells the story of a young girl who has been traveling for too long and has lost herself along the way. She finds herself in a strange barren place where she needs to abide by the rules in order to escape and find freedom. Set in the early 1960s, Khimtsang by Rinchen Dolma, follows Sonam and Jigme, who meet in a registration transit school in Mussoorie, India. They must decide on how to start their lives in exile. An Uncomfortable Dinner Party by Alice Siregar is a dramatic and darkly comedic exploration of interpersonal issues that arise in a trans person’s life as she has to deal with family members that don’t quite understand her experience. A darkly comedic 4-hander, At Our Feet by Elly Pond explores the absurdities of climate change through a series of 20 quirky scenes, performed in a delightful jumble that leaves audiences both entertained and contemplative. A seriocomic one-act play, Fight Flight Freeze by Lily Chang incorporates nonlinear storytelling and metafictional elements to present the (mis)communications, friendship, and committed partnership between two very different people who meet on a fligth leaving Montreal. Andy is a queer Chinese-Canadian cartoonist who rarely leaves the comfort of Anglophone circles in Montreal. She is creative, honest, and has a strong sense of justice but difficulty with regulating her anger and anxiety. Léo is a white, straight, bilingual, Quebecois financial consultant who is patient, empathetic, disorganized, and conflict-avoidant. He is on the autism spectrum and lives with bipolar disorder. Dylan’s Song by Anna Morreale is a surreal, multidisciplinary, queer epic. After a big night out, rumoured to be this party-girl’s last hurrah, Dylan prepares to tell you her story. Joined on stage by a chorus known as ‘The Bodies’, Dylan’s memories unravel faster than she can handle, exposing a darker side to her desire. Centering on Asian-diaspora stories, On the Other Edge of the World by Sabah Surat is a slice-of-life play that follows a group of performing art undergraduates studying with a newly minted professor. Their curriculum unexpectedly takes them all over the world including Dhaka and the Arctic. Gone Fishing by Lumi Mitton is a play about water, birds, oil, and the dead. Run through with mourning the destruction of the natural world, a group of Nova Scotian friends seek exile out on the Atlantic Ocean. A loose reimagining of Moby Dick, the main theme of this poignant and unnerving play is extinction, an homage to the countless species that are now dead, gone, extinct. And those that will soon join them. In Kind by Umaia Perlin two performance artists are confronted with the precarity and mortality of their collaboration. Their extreme and often violent body of work has moulded them both physically and spiritually, but their imperative to break boundaries is a dangerous one. As they consider their relationship and shared legacy, they realize that their failed attempt to invite a third collaborator has destroyed and renewed their practice in ways they now struggle to define. In Iced Oranges by Hazem Ghaith, Mazin, a Palestinian refugee born in Jordan, and Waleed, a Palestinian-Israeli, find themselves in Oslo seeking refuge for their queer identities. Despite growing up separated by a mere 100 km, their lives had taken wildly different paths. Mazin’s family fled to Jordan during the Nakba, while Waleed’s remained within ’48 Palestine. Try Harder: A Suicidal Puppet Tragedy by Rachel Renaud is a semi-biographical play set in an ER exploring the relationship between a mother and her suicidal daughter. Although non-binary, she is referred to as Daughter by Mother and the playwright to explore the dissonance of Mother never fully understanding them. In a “Freaky-Friday-but-with-puppetry” twist, occasionally the mother embodies a DAUGHTER PUPPET, whilst the teen embodies a MOTHER PUPPET. Both speak the other’s perspective in an exaggerated comedic mockery that eventually shifts to truth. Apply Today Fill out the form by March 28, 2025 at 12pm. Please indicate in your cover letter if there are certain plays you are interested in directing. If you have any questions, send an email to info@teesriduniyatheatre.com. ABOUT Teesri Duniya Theatre: Teesri Duniya Theatre is an intercultural theatre company dedicated to producing politically relevant plays that encourage positive change. Our plays foster critical thinking, address injustices, generate cross-cultural dialogue, create opportunities and enhance the representation of diverse, racialized and marginalized artists. We infuse art with social responsibility with a decolonizing consciousness.