One-Act Play Festival
October 18-19

Playwrights from all 50 states are invited to submit scripts for consideration in Theatre Odyssey’s Fifth One-Act Play Festival. Only 100 entries will be accepted. Finalists will be selected for full production in the Cook Theatre at the FSU Center for Performing Arts in Sarasota, Florida, and the winning play will receive the $1,000 Verna Safran Prize.

Please read the Guidelines before entering. Entries will be accepted beginning June 1.

PREVIOUS FINALISTS

2018
*TAGGED by Jim Moss – Tampa FL
MOTHERLESS CHILD by Peggy Aultman – Covington LA
RAW FISH by Emma Mercier – Pleasant Hill, CA
SOUNDS FROM THE MERRY-GO-ROUND by Stephen Stewart – Sugar Land, TX

2019
*IMMUREMENT by David L. Williams – Bellefonte, PA
GROWL by J. Lois Diamond – New York NY
IVY WALLS by Karen Cecilia – Brooklyn, NY
PROVENANCE by Ian Patrick Williams – Studio City, CA

2021
* THAT KISS by DC Cathro – Chicago, IL
WINDOW WASHER by Marlene Shyer – New York, NY
CENSUS by Susan Miller – New York, NY
ME TALKING 2 ME by Shoshannah Boray – Burlington, MD

2022
*THE MOCKINGBIRD’S NEST by Craig Bailey – Shelburn, VT
SHELL GAME by Meg Hanna-Tominaga – Spartanburg, SC
DEEP FREEZE by James C. Ferguson – Plainville, MA
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? by Philip J. Kaplan – Brooklyn, NY

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