Ten-Minute Play Festival

Complete scripts for 33 new plays, finalists at annual festivals produced by Theatre Odyssey, 2018-2021: Marvin Albert, Seva Anthony, Michael Bille, Dorothea Cahan, Monica Cross, Paul Donnelly, Cece Dwyer, Tony Gunn, Dan Higgs, Kea Kamiya, John J. Kelly, Arthur Keyser, Frank Motz, Marj O'Neill-Butler, Spencer Opal-Levine, Michelle Pascua, Ken Preuss, Sylvia Reed, Arianna Rose, Connie Schindewolf, Fredric Sirasky, Mary Margaret Steber, Laurie Stoner, Luke Valadie, Jan Wallace, Robert Wanderman, Keith Whalen, Bernard Yanelli. Performance rights for these individually copyrighted works are available directly from the authors.Theatre Odyssey's first Ten-Minute Play Festival in 2006 was a single-night, sold-out event. It cemented an idea that developed from conversations among local actors and writers that new, original work could be performed in different venues and everyone participating in any production would receive some monetary compensation for their time and talent. In 2013, the company created a Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival to encourage emerging playwrights from local high schools. That initial festival was in January of that year and became Theatre Odyssey's second annual event.In 2021 Theatre Odyssey produced its third One-Act Play Festival and again invited writers from throughout the United States to submit their work for production locally.Over 200 original new plays have been produced over the years. Many playwrights whose work was first presented by Theatre Odyssey have been published elsewhere, and their work has been produced nationally and internationally.Theatre Odyssey has published three anthologies. Volume One is the work produced in the years 2006-2009; Volume Two, 2010-2013; and Volume Three, 2014-2017.