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2024 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

May 28, 2024 by don

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. [...]

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2024 Ten-Minute Play Festival

May 28, 2024 by don

Ready or NotVerna 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 [...]

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2023 Ten-Minute Play Festival

August 5, 2023 by don

Donna DeFant, Lee Gundersheimer, and Stephen-Paul Dieter in IN REMEMBRANCE.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 [...]

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2023 Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

February 23, 2023 by don

Eric Henry and Glen Schudel in A MATTER OF TIME by Elaina Bayard.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 [...]

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2022 One-Act Play Festival

December 8, 2022 by don

Nellie O'Brien and Betty Robinson in "The Mockingbird's Nest"“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 [...]

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2022 Ten-Minute Play Festival

June 23, 2022 by don

Sign Here For All That Remains

“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, […]

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