each festival performance will be the winner of this year’s Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival, Julien Freij’s As Long As the Moon Shines, a poignant story about a young man caring his best for his young sister. The eight plays competing for Best Play in 2015 will join the 66 works produced at the last nine festivals. Theatre Odyssey has published two volumes of its produced plays. And several plays introduced by the company have been subsequently produced nationally and internationally. Each year since it was founded by Tom Aposporos and Dr. Larry R. Hamm in 2006, the company invites play submissions from the Gulf Coast region (Tampa Bay to Fort Myers). Three qualified play readers are engaged to read and separately score each of the plays. The readers are not identified to each other but work from the same scoring criteria. Playwrights identities are not provided to the readers, nor
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are the readers identified to the playwrights. This is all done to assure an independent process for play selection, free of even a perceived conflict of interest. The top scoring plays are produced at the annual festival. This year’s finalists, almost evenly divided between dramatic plays and comedies, are The Coward by Dylan Jones, The Dancing Lessons by Connie Schindewolf, Dream On, Merry May by Bernard Yanelli, High School Reunion by Arthur Keyser, It’s Time to Move by Ron Pantello, The Locket by Mark Leib, NIMBY by Robert Kinast, and Why by Marvin Albert. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on April 30, May 1 and 2. The final performance is May 3 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person for general seating ($5 for students with valid ID) and can be purchased at theatreodyssey. org. The company can be reached by calling 941.799.7224 or by email at info@theatreodyssey.org. Captions from Left to Right: Photos by Cliff Roles. Ben Kalish and Victoria Greenlaw in As Long As the Moon
Shines by Julien Freij (Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School), winner of Best Play, Third Annual Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival. Brianna Larson and Mitcheal Pearl in Smart Bra by Sylvia Reed, Runner-up, Theatre Odyssey’s Ninth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Don Walker and Jenny Aldrich Walker in A Bottle of Vodka by Connie Schindewolf, Best Play, Theatre Odyssey’s Ninth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. scenesarasota.com
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