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The Verna Safran Prize

Theatre Odyssey is honored to have received a substantial endowment from an anonymous donor honoring the memory of Sarasota resident Verna Safran, who passed away in 2017. This generous donation will be used to fund the first place scholarship and prize money for all three of Theatre Odyssey’s annual playwriting festivals for many years to… Read More

2021 ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL ADJUDICATORS

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... Read More

“THAT KISS” wins One-Act Play Festival

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... Read More

2021 One-Act Playwrights

CENSUS by Susan Miller Susan Miller is a two-time OBIE winner, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her play “20th Century Blues” ran Off-Broadway (2017/18), is licensed by Dramatists Play Service and published in Plays By Women (Methuen/ Drama). Miller’s solo play, “My Left Breast,” which premiered in ATL’s Humana Festival,... Read More

2021 PLAY FESTIVAL WINNERS

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... Read More

2021 STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL WINNERS

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.... Read More