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Ninth Annual New Play Contest and Festival
Thank you to all the playwrights who submitted original works to us this year. It has been our biggest contest, and one of the hardest. We started with 486 plays. There were so many great submissions - it was hard to narrow it down to the nine winners and three honorable mentions!
- Full Length:
Wrestling the Alligator by Sergei Burbank - Brooklyn, New York
Honorable Mention - Are You Popular by Alan Brody - Somerville, Massachusetts
- One Act:
Rules for a Knife Fight by Matt Wexler - Minnetonka, Minnesota
Just My Luck by Nick Vigorito - Brooklyn, New York
Honorable Mention - Bedtime by Michael E. Wolfson - Valley Village, California
- Playwright in Residence - Rick Raasch for Blonde Giovanni
- Ten Minute
Dancing About Architecture by John C. Davenport - Seattle, Washington
12 Steps to Happy Hour by Matt Wexler - Minnetonka, Minnesota
A Stake in Cake by Justin Boyd - Brooklyn, New York
Esla and Frinz Go Partying by Bruce Shearer - Melbourne, Australia
Honorable Mention - Everything But by Jon Steinhagen - Brookfield, Illinois
- Musical
Bridget's Girl by Barbara Dixon - Los Angeles, California
Thank you also to all of our readers and judges who spent considerable hours reading those 486 entries.
The Ninth Annual New Play Festival will take place on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center in Lakeville. The New Play Festival is a concert-style readings of winning full-length, ten-minute, musical and one act plays from our annual New Play Contest.
Discussions follow each of the readings, providing feedback and further development of the plays and their authors.
Scheduled times for each reading is as follows:
- 10:00 a.m. - 12 Steps to Happy Hour by Matt Wexler
- 10:30 - Blonde Giovanni by Rick Raasch
- 11:50 - Dancing About Architecture by John C. Davenport
- 12:15 p.m. - Just My Luck by Nick Vigorito
- 1:00 - Wrestling the Alligator by Sergei Burbank
- 3:30 - A Stake in the Cake by Justin Boyd
- 3:50 - Rules for a Knife Fight by Matt Wexler
- 4:15 - Esla and Frinz Go Partying by Jon Steinhagen
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Due to time constraints of the day long festival, we do not have the ability to provide a staged reading of the winning musical. Instead, in between readings we will be playing selected clips from the score.
Doors to the Lakeville Area Arts Center open at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome, there is no cost for attending the Ninth Annual New Play Festival.
Click here to view a list of previous New Play Festival winners.
Several past New Play Contest winning scripts have been produced by The Chameleon Theatre Circle:
The Chameleon Theatre Circle has also produced these original plays:
- Monsters In America: Puppets of Mass Distraction (created by the company) - 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival
- Death Penalty Puppetry (created by the company) – 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival
- How I Wonder What You Are - Seven original plays by seven playwrights - January 2004
- Believe In It by Kim Kivens
- The Boy Who Dies With The Most Mommies Wins by Rick Raasch
- Child of Mine by Lysa Clayburn
- H-I-J-K-LMNOP (but not Q) by G.J. Clayburn
- Pull Falcon's Feather Lever by Tim Kuehl
- Twinkle by Timothy Braatz
- Un, Deux, Trois by Clare Jodzio McDermott
- Pollyholiday by Rick Raasch - March 2003
- I Could Kick Your Ass by Daniel K. McDermott - January 2003
- If Garrett McDermott Were A Bowl of Prize-Winning Chili by Rick Raasch - November 2002
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