The Curtain Players Playwrights Festival is held annually to showcase new, unpublished, unproduced works of up-and-coming playwrights. In six short years, we have workshopped and premiered 28 plays from 24 playwrights from around the United States. These plays range from one-acts to full-lengths and vary in subject matter, encapsulating several genres and playwriting styles.

The submission period is currently closed. Submission information and guidelines for the 2009 Playwrights Festival will be posted soon—please check back.

2008 Festival

Pictured (l-r)—2008 Playwrights Festival writers: Michael S. Parsons, Jeremy Sony, Jaclyn Villano, and Kenneth Nichols

Thank you for joining us in January as we presented the 2008 Playwrights Festival, our annual showcase of exciting and entertaining plays from up and coming playwrights.

The three weekend Festival began on January 11, 2008, with Separation Anxiety by local playwright Jeremy Sony. For our second weekend, we featured playwrights Jaclyn Villano of Portland, Maine and OSU MFA student Kenneth Nichols with their plays, No Worse for the Wear and Tabloid Love, respectively. Finishing out the Festival was another local playwright, Michael S. Parsons, and his full-length feature, Chasing Ozymandias.

As always, each night concluded with a Q&A Discussion with the playwright(s), offering audiences a chance to meet the playwrights and become a part of their process—contributing their thoughts to the future of theatre.

Festival History
We invite you to enjoy a look at the previous Playwrights Festivals and learn more about this Curtain Players tradition.

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Questions?
All questions about the Playwrights Festival should be sent to playfest@curtainplayers.com, or you may contact the theater.