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2022 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

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BEST PLAY: THE REAL WORLD THE REAL WORLD—Tony Boothby, Ann Morrison, Jude DeMaio, Owen DeMaio and director Blake Walton. The play by Jake Pettingell was awarded the $1000 Vernon Safran Prize. The first Verna Safran Prize ($1,000) was awarded to Jake Pettingell, a Sarasotan who attends Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School, for his play THE REAL [...]

2021 ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL ADJUDICATORS

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AMANDA SCHLACHTER Amanda is an Assistant Professor of Theatre with The State College of Florida. She has worked as a professional actor, director and teaching artist for the past 20 years and is thrilled to be a part of Theatre Odyssey’s One-Act Play Festival.  Recently, she was the co-host of The Players New Play Festival [...]

“THAT KISS” wins One-Act Play Festival

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Kathryn Parks and Tahlia Chinault in this year's award-winning one-act, THAT KISS by DC Cathro. Click on the image above to see the online playbill for the One-Act Festival. DC Cathro is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director from the Washington, D.C. area. His work has been produced across the country. He receives the Best [...]

2021 PLAY FESTIVAL WINNERS

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WHITE ANGEL by Keith Whalen, a taut story of a young man desperate to visit his girlfriend at her college dorm only to be intercepted by the protective “dorm mom,” was judged the 2021 Best Play, earning its playwright a cash prize of $500. Adjudicators for Theatre Odyssey’s Sixteenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival were New College [...]

2021 STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL WINNERS

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BEST PLAY: FLYING SOLO WITH IBD by Spencer Opal-Levine took the festival's top award–a $1,000 cash scholarship–with this story about a teen with an invisible disability flying unaccompanied to Washington, D.C.  Spencer’s play, THE DRILL, was Runner-Up in last year's Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival, which followed his 2018 win, THE QUADRENNIAL BET, also a Runner-Up. [...]