Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series

Overview

One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of emerging writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation.

The festival resulting in this collection was held August 2nd - 9th, 2015 at the Classic Stage Company in New York City.

From the initial pool of over 1400 submissions, the Final 30 plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. A panel of judges comprised of celebrity playwrights, theatrical agents and artistic directors nominated one or more of each evening's plays as finalists. The final round was then held on the last day of the festival. Out of these plays, six winners listed below were chosen by Samuel French, Inc. to receive publication and licensing contracts: 

Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime by Greg Edwards and Andy Roninson 
Narrators by Simon Henriques 
The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly 
Throws of Love by Amy Staats 
Seabird is in a Happy Place by James Gordon King 
Blind by Gloria Calderon Kellett

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Authors

Audrey Cefaly

Audrey Cefaly's plays include The Gulf (Edgerton, Lammy, Charles MacArthur Nominee), Alabaster (NNPN Record-Breaking RWP, Kilroys, Calicchio Prize), Maytag Virgin, The Last Wide Open, The Story Of Walter, Fin & Euba, Tell Me Something Good, The Believers and Love Is A Blue Ti ...

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Gloria Calderón Kellett

Gloria Calderón Kellett is a successful TV writer who has worked on shows including How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Devious Maids and iZombie. She began writing plays in college and received many awards for her first play, Plane Strangers. She has written such pla ...

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Greg Edwards

Greg Edwards wrote the script for Application Pending (Off-Broadway, Drama Desk nomination) and Craving for Travel (Off-Broadway), lyrics for Neurosis: A New Musical (Off-Broadway, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, SALT Award for Best New Musical), and book and lyrics for Evelyn Shaf ...
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Andy Roninson

Andy Roninson is the son of refugees. His parents’ stories inspired his new musical Soviet Rebel Girl and the award-winning screenplay of the same name. Awards, etc.: Jonathan Larson Grant, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Johnny Mercer Foundation Grove at Goodspeed, JMF Songwriters ...

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Simon Henriques

Simon Henriques is a writer, performer, and co-artistic director of Nightdrive. With Nightdrive, he has co-written and starred in an apocalypse around a campfire (The Grown-Ups, secret Brooklyn location); a live immersive alien movie (Alien Nation, Paradise Factory); a five-d ...
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James Gordon King

James Gordon King is a Vancouver based playwright and poet. Seabird is in a Happy Place is his first professional theatrical production. Alongside his partner Marie Farsi, he’s the co-founder of Babelle Theatre. His other writing - poetry and non-fiction - has been published ...
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Amy Staats

Amy Staats is an actor, writer and 2017-2018 Tow Playwriting Residency through the Atlantic Theater Company. Her plays include: EDDIE AND DAVE (Developed at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and Space On Ryder Farm with Margot Bordelon and Megan Hill); HANDS (Developed at Naked Ang ...
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