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.
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Contents
Prologue
2018 Ten-Minute Play Festival
* THE CARD GAME by Michael Bille
** CLICHÉ by Keith Whalen
*** DEATH OF HONOR by Bernard Yanelli
THE HALLMARK MAN by Seva Anthony
SILENT LETTERS by Cece Dwyer
A LOVE STORY by Dan Higgs
U-TURN by Frank Motz
BOB’S by Fredric Sirasky
# TOO MANY COOKS by Luke Valadie
2019 Ten-Minute Play Festival
* FAMILY BY NUMBERS by Arianna Rose
** COMING TO TOWN by Keith Whalen
FAMILY VISITATION by Paul Donnelly
VOLITION by Tony Gunn
WHO DONE IT by Robert Wanderman
CRUNCHERS by Frank Motz
A CONUNDRUM by Dan Higgs
LIFE ON EARTH by Connie Schindewolf
# THE TRAGEDY OF BENJAMIN FINCH by Mary Margaret Steber
2020 Ten-Minute Play Festival
* SINGLE RIDER by Michelle Pascua
** FINDING HELP by Marj O’Neill-Butler
FINAL CURTAIN by Marvin Albert
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY by Fredric Sirasky
SOLASTALGIA by Sylvia Reed
THE MIS-TRIAL OF ANNE HUTCHINSON by Bernie Yanelli
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM by Arthur Keyser
WHAT I GOT NOBODY WANTS by John J. Kelly
# THE THEATER MAN by Kea Kamiya
2021 Ten-Minute Play Festival
* WHITE ANGEL by Keith Whalen
** DANCING IN THE ELEVATOR by Dorothea Cahan
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Arthur Keyser
SCIENCE FRICTION; OR, THE RAPID DECONSTRUCTION OF A RATIONAL MIND by Ken Preuss
SEX, LIES AND STYROFOAM by Arianna Rose
TOGETHERNESS by Jan Wallace
UNDUE INFLUENCE by Laurie Stoner
# FLYING SOLO WITH IBD by Spencer Opal-Levine