2025 Best Play:
Strangers Off a Train
Waiting on a subway platform, Yinoelle Colon has her defenses up. A shy but insistent stranger, Aaron Schroeder, shows her that staying alert to danger needn’t block awareness of life’s other possibilities. Strangers Off a Train, by Fort Lauderdale playwright Samara Siskind and directed by Alan Brasington, was judged Best Play in Theatre Odyssey’s Twentieth Ten-Minute Play Festival, winning the $500 Verna Safran Prize.
RUNNER-UP: A VERY PRIVATE PERSON
British playwright Elizabeth MacKintosh, who wrote under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot, was very good at staying out of the spotlight, to the dismay of her friend, actor John Gielgud. As she struggles to complete what will be her final work, a mystery novel under the pseudonym Josephine Tey, Gielgud promises to keep her secret. A Very Private Person, by Don Salvo of Celebration, Florida, directed by Ann Gundersheimer, was judged Runner-Up in the 2025 Festival, earning a $300 prize. Salvo’s play The Florida Highwaymen was a finalist in the 2024 Festival.
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