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PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL WINNERS!

 

All of nearly two hundred ten-minute plays that were submitted for our playwriting festival during the last year were excellent. Congratulations to all playwrights. Thank you for participating. Here are the Winners!

 

 

2008 • 2009 FESTIVAL WINNER

The Strapper

by CP Stancich, Gig Harbor, WA

Directed by: Bruce Alexander

 

 

 

2008 • 2009 FESTIVAL SECOND PLACE

Super 8 Versus Bacara Resort and Spa

by Stephanie Hutchinson, Los Angeles, CA

Directed by: Jennifer Hartline

 

 

 

 

2008 • 2009 FESTIVAL THIRD PLACE

A Lifetime of Firsts

by Jaclyn Villano, Austin, TX

Directed by: Nick Charles

 

 

 

PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL HONORABLE MENTIONS FOR 2009

 

After the top 7 were selected for production ... we can never leave good enough alone. There are always so many great plays submitted that we include one of our honorable mentions to be performed at the beginning of each evening as a Readers Theatre. Here is a list of the honorable mention plays for this season. This list (at popular demand) will remain up for a brief while longer so that the well deserving playwrights can get an additional fifteen minutes of fame and maybe get picked up by one of those intrepid Google web-bots.

No Going Back

by Carl L. Williams, Houston, TX

Directed by: Rick Kerrigan


The Cell Phone

by John Wolfson, New York City, NY

Directed by: Aidan Daguro


Love and Light

by Jerome Parisse, Woolloomooloo NSW, Australia

Directed by: Tracey DiMicelli


Oh My God!

by Michael Callahan, Lompoc, CA

Directed by: Clark Weyenberg

 

Million Miles Away

by Herman Poppe, Van Nuy, CA

 

Made In China

by Jill Murphy Long, Steamboat Springs, CO

 

Just Say It

by Marlene M. Miller, Walnut Creek, CA

Om Sweet Om

by Peggy Dougherty, San Diego, CA

 

But That's Not What We Ordered

by Craig Kenworthy, Bozeman, MT

 

Lemonade With A Twist

by Roy Battocchio, Los Angeles, CA

 

The One That Got Away

by Michael Leathers, Chatham, IL

 

Disconnect

by M. John Bohane, Nokomis, FL

 

The Borrower, The Butler And The Bastard

by Sonal Moore, St. Ives, NSW, Australia

 

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Middle Aged Woman

by Jerry Lieblich, East Setauket, NY

 

Calliope

by Joseph Horst, Winterville, NC

 

Dancing at the Applejack

by Jan Henson Dow, Bluffton SC

 

Together Alone

by Richard Warren, Paradise Valley, AZ

 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PLAY FOR 2010

 

 

What It Takes To Get Selected for our Annual Playwriting Festival

First • This is a 10-minute playwriting festival. Plays under 10 minutes or over 10 minutes are rejected. Even if your short scene is cute or your one-act is good, it doesn't count.

Second • The work must have a beginning that grabs your attention, a middle with some meat and character development, and an ending that makes sense. It can surprise you, shock you, make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, but it must have an ending.

Third • Everything else! Is the dialog natural for the characters created? Are the characters ones that an audience can hate, love, believe ... is there some emotion touched? Is it something that an audience will remember? Something to tell someone else about? In short, is it a good story!

Rules for Submitting your Plays


Deadline is October 15th of each year. We target to announce top 7 plays and honorable mentions by the second week of December. Performances begin each year in January with auditions shortly after the top 7 are announced ... think early December. A $10.00 per play entry fee is required for submissions and will be divided and used as winner stipends. In this way ... should you be chosen by our audiences as one of the top three plays for the season ... you will get bragging rights to say ... "Yes I have had my play produced" and "Yes I have been paid for writing a play". As a published playwright the door of opportunity will e opened to you and a whole new career could be awaiting you. Who knows ... some day you may be counted in the company of   Thornton WIlder, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams. Who Knows.

 

Now back to the business at hand ... After we receive your original 10 minute play we will acknowledge the receipt of your script and $10.00 fee either by post card or preferably by e-mail. Please submit your plays unbound (stapled is OK) with your full contact info on the title page.


Important Reminder: All plays must be able to be performed in roughly 10 minutes..

Submitted plays can be on any subject


We do like to have one or two quality dramas along with a selection of comedies, so consider touching our hearts as well as our funny bones! We're not able to produce musicals in this venue, and the audience is principally adults, so plays for children are not appropriate, but as a community theater we want to appeal to the largest possible audience, so plays with an excessive amount of @!%#!X* words or graphic violence need to have an incredible message ... shock value although allowed doesn't rank a winning vote with most audiences. And after all you want to win ... don't you? ... Well don't you?


PLEASE MAIL YOUR PLAYS AND ENTRY FEES TO
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31776 El Camino Real • San Juan Capistrano • CA 92675

 

 

INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL WINNERS

 

 

 

2007 • 2008 FESTIVAL WINNER

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Playwright: Michael Sadler
Director Matthew Dodd

 

 

 

 

 

2007 • 2008 FESTIVAL SECOND PLACE

Bride on the Rocks
Playwright: David Wiener
Director: Bruce Alexander

 

 

 

 

 

2007 • 2008 FESTIVAL THIRD PLACE

All the Way
Playwright: Steven Korbar
Director: Steph Davis

 

 

 

 

 

2006 • 2007 FESTIVAL WINNER

 

Death Takes a Vacation
Written by Bruce Alexander
San Francisco, CA
Directed by Mario Rossi

 

 

 

 

2006 • 2007 FESTIVAL SECOND PLACE

 

 

Under Par
Written by William Allen
Homer, NY
Directed by Jennifer Hartline

 

 

 

 

 

2006 • 2007 FESTIVAL THIRD PLACE

 

 

Die Baby Die
Written by Jody Gehrman & David Wolf
Potter Valley, CA
Directed by Nick Charles

 

 


2005 • 2006 FESTIVAL WINNER

Adam. Eve. Eve. Adam.
by Bruce Alexander from California
Directed by Tessa Jacobs



 

 

2005 • 2006 FESTIVAL SECOND PLACE
Hello Mom?

by James Caputo from San Diego, CA
Directed by Jean Hauser



 

2005 • 2006 FESTIVAL THIRD PLACE
First Dates

by C. L. Critchlow from Rancho Mirage, CA
Directed by Rick Kerrigan

 


2005 • 2006 FESTIVAL FOURTH PLACE
Days of Dwight

by C. P. Stancich from Gig Harbor, WA
Directed by Michael Wallot



2004 • 2005 FESTIVAL WINNER
Jumper

by Pat Morgan
of Houston, TX.

 

 



2004 • 2005 SECOND PLACE WINNER
Horse Tails

by Melinda Bowles
of Newport Beach, CA

 

 



2004 • 2005 THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Keys to the Mystic Halls of Time

by Matt Casarino
of Wilmington, DE

 

 



2003 • 2004 FESTIVAL WINNER
The Bald Mousetrap

by Heather Violanti of Stratford-upon-Avon, England
A delightful farce based loosely on Sherlock Holmes.

 

 



2003 • 2004 SECOND PLACE WINNER
Dead Ringer

by Tom Swimm of San Clemente, California
A murder mystery in a funeral parlor.

 

 



2003 • 2004 THIRD PLACE WINNER
Twist and Lout

by Lissa Brennan of Durham, North Carolina
More clich้s than you can shake a stick at in this detective noir.

 

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