Fourteenth Annual Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival Venice Student Wins Verna Safran Prize for Best Play Cristina Bickerstaff and Jill Schroeder in THE WAITING ROOM by Venice playwright Delaney Lockwood. THE WAITING ROOM — Cristina Bickerstaff, Scott Ehrenpreis, playwright Delaney Lockwood, Jill Schroeder, director Glenn Schudel. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE FESTIVAL PLAYBILL Delaney Lockwood’s THE... Read More
Twenty-First Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival Carrie Greenberg and Mark Shoemaker in Brian S Brijbag's prizwinning play. BEST PLAY ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF ELEPHANTS BEST PLAY: ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF ELEPHANTS—Mark Shoemaker, Carrie Greenberg, playwright Brian S. Brijbag, director Cinda Goeken. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE FESTIVAL PLAYBILL AMBIENT LIGHT—Dan Landon, director Ken Basque, Eric Henry.... Read More
2025 One-Act Play Festival BEST PLAY Seedubya and Mizhall by John C. Davenport In a Dallas barbershop in the 1960s, an elderly white woman has her first encounter with the Black shoeshine man she has always resented. Featuring Eldred Brown and Lilian Moore, directed by Meg Gilbert, the winning play was written by a Seattle... Read More
Patricia Brady wins Verna Safran Prize for Best Play Theatre Odyssey Director Emeritus Preston Boyd with Patricia Rose Brady (playwright), Greg Burdick (drama teacher), and Ryan Vann (principal, Lake Gibson High School). Winner of the Verna Safran Prize for Best Play, Brady’s name has been added to the plaque which will be displayed at Lake... Read More
Lakeland Student Wins Verna Safran Prize for Best Play Ali Wasmund and Yinoelle Colon in A MEMORY AWAY, by Lake Gibson High student Patricia Brady A MEMORY AWAY—Evangeline De La O, Steven Butler, Ali Wasmund, playwright Patricia Brady, Yinoelle Colon, director Nicol Moeller. The grief following a school shooting is truthfully told in Patricia Brady's... Read More
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 & 2, The Best Ten-Minute Plays... Read More
