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2022 One-Act Play Festival

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“The Mockingbird’s Nest” wins $1000 Verna Safran Prize Nellie O’Brien and Betty Robinson in “The Mockingbird’s Nest” The Mockingbird’s Nest Elderly shut-in Daisy suspects her daughter and live-in caregiver, Robyn, isn’t what she seems to be. Playwright Craig Bailey Craig Bailey wrote, produced, and published his first one-act while he was a teenager. In the [...]

2022 Ten-Minute Play Festival

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“SIGN HERE FOR ALL THAT REMAINS” Wins Verna Safran Prize Greg Burdick’s poignant play about a widow receiving an unexpected delivery was judged Best Play at the 17th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. SIGN HERE FOR ALL THAT REMAINS was directed by Alan Brasington and featured performances by Sue Bachman and Glenn Schudel. Greg, from Lakeland, […]

2022 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

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BEST PLAY: THE REAL WORLD THE REAL WORLD—Tony Boothby, Ann Morrison, Jude DeMaio, Owen DeMaio and director Blake Walton. The play by Jake Pettingell was awarded the $1000 Vernon Safran Prize. The first Verna Safran Prize ($1,000) was awarded to Jake Pettingell, a Sarasotan who attends Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School, for his play THE REAL [...]

The Verna Safran Prize

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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 […]

“THAT KISS” wins One-Act Play Festival

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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 [...]

2021 One-Act Playwrights

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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, [...]