One-Act Play Festival
100 entries received in six hours!
Despite a technical glitch when the entry window was supposed to open (a broken link to the online entry form was quickly repaired) the first entry came in at 9:15 a.m. A few playwrights reported being unable to activate the entry form at midday. This may have been the result of heavy traffic on the website’s server. Some failures likely resulted from unrefreshed browser pages which still contained the broken link. In any case, plenty of entrants were successful—the 100th entry was logged at 3:24 p.m.
The speed of this process certainly speaks to the growing interest in Theatre Odyssey’s One-Act Play Festival by playwrights around the country. Time stamps on last year’s entries show that they came in during a four-day period.
Plays selected as finalists will be announced in July. The Festival will be presented October 2-4 at the Cook Theatre, FSU Center for Performing Arts in Sarasota.
Venice Student Wins Verna Safran Prize for Best Play
BEST PLAY: The Waiting Room
Directed by Glenn Schudel, the prizewinning play in Theatre Odyssey’s Fourteen Annual Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival featured Cristina Bickerstaff, Jill Schroeder and Scott Ehrenpreis. Playwright Delaney Lockwood from Venice High School, wins the $1,000 Verna Safran prize.
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To engage our audience in short, innovative theater works while providing a nurturing environment that encourages, challenges, and inspires playwrights and other theater artists.
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