Redwood Writers: 10-Minute Play Festival

Redwood Writers has just named nine winning playwrights of their 2nd Annual 10-Minute Play Contest. Teaming up this year with 6th Street Playhouse, all nine plays will be produced within a three-day Play Festival, which includes four opportunities to see the nine winning plays produced in an intimate setting in the 6th Street Studio Theatre.
The Festival also boasts a panel discussion with winning playwrights, and a very special workshop taught by Garret Jon Groenveld, a founding writer of PlayGround.… Show more
The winning plays and playwrights include: Special Delivery by Malena Eljumaily; There There, Now by Nancy Lockard Gallop; Gravediggers by Gene Griffith; Answer Me Now by Teresa LeYung-Ryan; The Play Is the Thang by Elaine Maikovska; Turn The Other by Amanda McTigue; GPS by Harry Reid; Dream Girl by Elizabeth VanPatten; and BFF by Jean Wong.
The 10-Minute Play Festival Calendar
Festival Play Performance Dates:
June 29 - 8:00 PM
June 30 - 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
July 1 - 2:00 PM
6th Street Playhouse - Studio Theatre
All Tickets: $16.00 (no discounts) - purchase by phone or online
Workshop with Garret Jon GROENVELD
Debunking the "Write What You Know Myth" - 10 Page Plays and Unlimited Potential
July 1, 10:00 Am-12:30 PM
6th Street Playhouse - GK Hardt Theatre
Tuition: $10.00 (no discounts) - purchase by phone
Processing Playwriting: Q&A with the nine winning playwrights
Join the playwrights for a Q&A about their plays, their process, and their experience with having a first production of their works.
July 1, 4:30 PM - (Following matinee of plays)
6th Street Playhouse - Studio Theatre
This event is Free to the public
GARRET Jon Groenveld is a founding writer of PlayGround and recently appeared in his Seventh PlayGround Festival. His play Missives received a world premiere at Theatre Rhino in 2005 and a New York Premiere in New York in 2008. The Serving Class won the Global Age Project in 2010 from the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley and as of this writing is a semifinalist for the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwrighting Contest. His newest full-length play, The Hummingbirds won the Global Age Project this year and was a Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill Summer Playwrights Conference. He recently also won the Internationalist Global Playwrighting Contest, with upcoming presentations in six or more countries by the end of March 2013. He was an inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Playwrights Foundation and has appeared in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival twice (1999 and 2004). Mr. Groenveld holds an Mfa in Poetry and Playwriting, and studied playwrighting with Edward Albee at his workshop at the University of Houston.

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