10 Minute Playworks Festival

Announcing our Winners

for the 2024 10-Minute PLAYWORKS FESTIVAL

The Finalists are 

Enough Once

by Wendy Vogel

Midnight at the Pancake Shack

by Jane M. Lee

The Perfect Prom Date

by Phil Olson

These plays will have a stage reading of the plays on Sunday, November 10 at the Claflin University WV Middleton Fine Arts Center as part of the SCTA Convention.

Honorable Mentions are 

Turbulence by  Jessica Lemes da Silva

Unreasonable Situations by Lindsey Brown

 P-I-S-D by DAMIAN HAWKINS

As part of the SC Theatre Association Convention, the 10 Minute Playworks Festival is a vital part of cultivating new theatre work.  The request for playwrights to submit their 10-Minute scripts will open again July 1 for the 2024 festival. A Review Panel will choose three to five quality scripts to be staged by a director and auditioned actors during the convention.

Here are the Details:

• Fee for submission:  FREE for the first two submissions by a SCTA Member,$15 per additional script. $20 per script for non-members

• Deadline to submit scripts electronically: October 1

• Announcement of scripts to be staged: October 21

• Winning Playwrights will given

  • Full Access to the convention

  • Free year’s membership to Play Submission Helper www.playsubmissionshelper.com

• Convention Dates: November 7-10, 2024 at Claflin University and SC State University in Orangeburg, SC

• Auditions will be held on the Claflin campus, Saturday, November 9th from 8:30-10:00 AM for actors/readers of the winning scripts. Directors for the scripts are to be determined.

• 10-Minute Plays performed on Sunday afternoon, November 10

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2023 Festival Winners

Talk! by Stuart A. Day

How To Get Home by Johanna Beale Keller

First Date 2099 by Mike Byham

All three playwrights won a free year’s membership to Play Submission Helper www.playsubmissionshelper.com