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
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
KAREN ROMANT Karen moved to Florida in 1993 from the Los Angeles area, where she earned a B.A. in Theatre from California State University, Northridge. Her Master of Arts degree is from Florida State University. Both in California and in Florida, Romant has acted professionally on stage, in commercials and film, and worked as director,... Read More
Best Play Spencer Emerson Opal-Levine (Flying Solo with IBD) Spencer is a senior at Pine View. His plays have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. Loosely based on Spencer’s own experiences living with Crohn’s disease, “Flying Solo with IBD” won the Kennedy Center’s VSA Playwright Discovery award in 2020 but due to COVID-19, had its Washington,... Read More
Each year we explain that the playwright’s words are the most relevant component of this festival. In no prior year has that been more important. COVID-19 compelled us to find a new means to present eight plays from writers across Florida, hence “Radio Theatre Odyssey.” However, Murray Chase, Rick Kerby, and Jeffery Kin, our judges... Read More
BEST PLAY: THE THEATER MAN by Kea Kamiya of the State College of Florida Collegiate School, a sweet and sentimental play about a theater owner despondent about the closing of his establishment but visited by characters from the past who remind him of the wonderful things he and his theater did for them, won Best Play... Read More
