March 2026 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
Communications Coordinator
Wanna work with Theatre of the Beat this May-August?
We are now hiring a Communications Coordinator to help spread the word about Theatre of the Beat, Invisible Threads and the MADGEN Theatre Festival!
The position is created to support the Creative Communications and Community Engagement Manager with administrative coordination, helping with production marketing and public engagement, and assisting with socials and these very newsletters.
Call for Plays
Send us your new, one-act plays by April 30!
Each year Theatre of the Beat makes a call for new, socially engaged one-act plays for the MADGEN Theatre Festival. Once received, our producers read through the various selections to pick the show they want to produce as a staged-reading.
If you play is selected, you’ll receive $1,500, a full workshop/rehearsal process, and presentation with our August festival.
Zine: Issue #2
Ummm, how is it Spring already?
The Beat Bulletin is already prepping for it’s second mail out. In preparation for Invisible Threads, this issue will explore the theme of “forced labour,” featuring a flash essay, Cooper Institute’s Ryan MacRae, poetry from Gabriel Allahdua, and an interview with the Red Dress Alert’s Denise Cook.
Also, for those who have signed up, the pen pal program pairings will be sent out shortly.
If you received the first zine “on Gender,” you can expect to receive issue 2 by late April/early May. If you didn’t receive the first issue, but wou;d like to receive “on Forced Labour,” sign up at the link below.
Community Announcements
Hey neighbour! What’s cooking?
Theatre of the Beat alumni Lindsey Middleton (#ChurchToo, UNMUTE) and Brendan Kinnon (#ChurchToo) are producing the darkly funny and wildly strange comedy called The Moors.
It’s a dark comedy about love, desperation, and the dangerous results of yearning to be seen. Drawing inspiration from classic Victorian Gothic novels by the Brontë sisters, but twisting the genre to become something weirder and wilder, The Moors is undeniably wild and unmistakably modern.
Preview tickets are just $20 on April 3, 4, and 7.
Regular tickets are available on a Pay What You Can Afford scale ($30–$60), with $80 VIP reserved seating. PWYC performance on the second Tuesday of the run.
The INKlings Adult Writing group in Stouffville, ON is hosting an Ekphrastic Writing Contest (using art as creative writing inspiration) until April 25, 2026.
You don’t have to live in Stouffville to apply, the contest open to anyone over the age of 19.
A team of volunteers have selected 4 pieces from the Latcham Art Centre’s 2026 Juried Exhibit to prompt up to 500 words (any style/form) in written response.
Submissions will be adjudicated based on the calibre of writing, as well as the piece’s description of and connection to the Ekphrastic Art work selected.
The contest is anonymously juried, and will have cash prizes available for winners.
