The Adjudication Team

The purpose of the Calgary ACTS adjudication team is to provide written feedback on every community theatre production in Calgary. For a production to be eligible for adjudication the producing company must be a member of Calgary ACTS and submit their shows to the Adjudication Team Coordinator by the specified deadlines. (September 1st for productions running September – December, and December 15th for shows running January – June). Adjudications are provided to participating companies in raw and unedited form within one week of show closing. With our feedback we hope to strengthen and enrich the theatre community.

Time Commitment

The adjudication team is a fun and focused way to invest your volunteer hours and the feedback that you provide to the theatre community can be truly invaluable. While we don’t require a large amount of hours please give careful consideration to whether or not you do have the time to fully commit to the team.

You will be expected to attend two adjudication team meetings per year (one in September and one in January) as well as at least one Calgary ACTS general meeting (held every other month).

Each adjudicator will see a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 shows per season. The season runs from September to June so you will be seeing one or two shows per month. In addition to the running time of the production that you are viewing we would suggest spending 2 – 3 hours on writing your adjudication.

While meeting time is minimal (4 – 6 hours), you can expect to spend approximately 50 hours working specifically on your production viewing and adjudication. Still interested? Read on.

Recruiting

The adjudication team is composed of 15 adjudicators and 1 alternate. In general, we do our recruiting for new members in August/September though vacancies do occasionally open up mid-year. If you are interested in joining the team please contact Amanda Chapman at adjudication {at} calgary-acts.com.

Calgary-ACTS Membership

Adjudicators who do not sit on the board of a member company are encouraged to become individual members of Calgary-ACTS (for the low, low price of five bucks). The idea behind this is that well-informed adjudicators, who have attended many different productions, will lend some weight to the final CAT Award votes. With that in mind, the voting procedure is not the primary focus of the adjudicators. Having the adjudication team involved in the awards is intended merely as a balance and augmentation of the public nomination process.