Theatre Odyssey

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20th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival Best Play: Strangers Off a Train STRANGERS OFF A TRAIN—Yinoelle Colon, Aaron Schroeder, director Alan Brasington and playwright Samara Siskind. Samara Siskind’s plays and monologues have been produced across the globe and featured in various anthologies including Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues, Great Short Comedies Volumes 1 & [...]

2024 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

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Verna Safran Prize goes to The CATIDS Tami Vaughan, playwright Delaney Lockwood, director Leona Collesano, Lindsey Nickel, Evangeline De La O, Julee Breehne, and Derek Dutcher. The CATIDS by Delaney Lockwood of Venice High School is the story of a high school teacher creating a lesson plan using international figures making a difference in history. [...]

2024 Ten-Minute Play Festival

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Verna Safran Prize goes to READY OR NOT Anuj Naidu and William Ashburn READY OR NOT—William Ashburn, playwright Michael Anthony Mercado, Anuj Naidu, and director James Thaggard. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COMPLETE PLAYBILL As a lifelong creator of characters and stories, Michael Anthony Mercado embarks on a new adventure as a playwright and is [...]

2023 Ten-Minute Play Festival

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IN REMEMBRANCE judged Best Play CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE ONLINE PLAYBILL Memory is important, especially as we mature, and the production of In Remembrance by Michelle Pascua with Lee Gundersheimer, Donna DeFant, and Stephen-Paul Dieter directed by Katherine Michelle Tanner delivered the message touchingly. It was judged Best Play and won the Verna Safran [...]

2023 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

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Elaina Bayard wins Verna Safran Prize Festival Production Manager Preston Boyd commented that the work by students this year made the competition, judged by Dr. Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, Benny Sato Ambush, and David Covach, particularly challenging. And he noted that for the first time, Theatre Odyssey retained dramaturgy services from award-winning playwright Jason Cannon for [...]