These eighteen 10-Minute Plays have been selected from more than 600 nationwide submissions. Together, they serve as a sampler of some of the sharpest, wittiest, most incisive, and thought-provoking writing going on in America today. For your viewing pleasure, the plays have been loosely grouped together into themes related to each of our full-length plays. You’ll find the thematic grouping color-coded throughout the Festival calendar and website.
IN THE MIDST
LAKE UNTERSEE, the full-length play that inspired this grouping, follows a young man in the midst of discovering exactly who he is. Each of these 10-Minute Plays finds characters in the middle of a crucial turning point in their lives.
THE RETURN OF THE LIVING
By Eric Appleton
Directed by Joel David Santner
As a mummy rampages through their home, Devon and Audrey realize that the mummy might not be the only one who has come to visit them from the afterlife.
REFLECTIONS
By Jonathon Cook
Directed by Kelsey Mesa
A young girl with a supernatural power has disappeared, and it's not just her parents who are left to wonder what might have happened.
FROSTY: A CHILLY TRAGEDY WITH SEXY BITS
By Krista Knight
Directed by Kelsey Mesa
music by Barry Brinegar
He melted her heart, and then he melted.
PIONEERS
By Molly Hagan
Directed by Joel David Santner
A young couple imagines the world beyond the hospital walls as they pass the time in a hospital waiting room.
FIRST STOP: NIAGARA FALLS
By Renee Calarco*
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore**
All Amy has ever wanted to do is go to Ibiza and have fun. Instead she has a baby. At the office.
PAS DE DEUX FOR A MICROWAVE NIGHT
By Steve Lewis
Directed by Joel David Santner
Two lonely souls find deceit, hope, Mongolian barbecue and ballet on an online dating site.
ON THE CUSP
PERFECT ARRANGMENT, the full-length play that inspired this grouping, looks in on a group of Washingtonians who stand on the cusp of enormous social change. Each of these 10-Minute Plays explores beginnings.
A UNICORN ON 7TH AND NICOLLET
By Jessica Huang
Directed By Maureen Monterubio
Just what does it take to turn the world on with a smile?
CAKE
By Sherry Kramer
Directed by Maureen Monterubio
A man, a woman and their two Chihuahuas debate the scent of love.
WITH HER OLD BOYFRIEND THERE WERE PATTERNS
By Eric Pfeffinger
Directed by Kate Bryer**
Jenna discovers how a previous boyfriend lays emotional land mines for her future boyfriends to find.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
By Peter J Roth
Directed by Jacob Janssen
Two train passengers play a game of love, betrayal, espionage and murder.
SUPPLICATION
By David Mitchell Robinson*
Directed by Jacob Janssen
In an attempt to figure out where his life went wrong, a man moves back into his mother's uterus where he finds more than what he bargained for.
BACK STOCK
By Jami Brandli
Directed by Maureen Monterubio
As a hurricane approaches a small coastal town, a young man discovers a mermaid in a kiddy pool in the back of his late father's supermarket.
AFTERWARD
Directing Mentor: Eleanor Holdridge
A FRONTIER, AS TOLD BY THE FRONTIER, the full-length play that inspired this grouping, follows a group of children living in an abandoned amusement park, after their world has been dismantled. Each of these 10-Minute Plays looks back on what came before.
EDWARD CULLEN RUINED MY MOTHER'S LOVE LIFE
By Stephanie Alison Walker
Directed by Megan Behm
The only thing scarier to 16 year old Lily than her mother's obsession with a fictional teenage vampire is getting her drivers license.
THE MAN IN THE POWDER-BLUE SUIT
By Stephen Spotswood*
Directed by Renana Fox
A young woman remembers the moment her fractured family ran headlong into a man hoping to save them from the end of the world.
50 GUNS
by Alex Broun
Directed by Ali Miller
50 lives. 50 stories. And one red gun.
MINUS YOU
By Jennifer Barclay
Directed by Megan Behm
Lennox can't find his wife Gracie in the neighboring burial plot, so he tries to reach her through the crossed wires of the afterlife.
LOST IN THOUGHT
By Christopher Lockheardt
Directed by Ali Miller
A man imagines the past, present and future of a former lover.
RIOT GRRRL REUNION
By Darin J. Dunston
Directed by Renana Fox
When a team of unruly roller derby girls arrive for the First Annual Riot Grrrl Rally, they discover a boys basketball game in progress;and an unexpected opponent.
