Announcing Raven Short Play Festival

HEALDSBURG, CA — The Raven Players announces its first competitive Raven Short Play Festival: Love Bites. Short-play submissions to the competitive festival will be accepted from September 15 through October 15, 2019. In this first year, the festival is themed “Love Bites” and will feature plays of 10 to 20 minutes in duration. Playwrights from around the world are invited to submit original works that generally focus on the joy, heartbreak, humor and/or tragedy of any type of love.

Playwrights may submit up to three works that follow the guidelines set forth by the festival. Fifteen plays will be selected for production from the pool of entries by a jury of theatre professionals. To ensure equal opportunity, playwrights identities will not be revealed to the jury until the final selections have been made.

Winners of the competition will be announced in December. The winning plays will be performed by the Raven Players at the Raven Performing Arts Theatre on February 28, 29 and March 1, 2020. Winning playwrights will be awarded $100, free festival tickets and recognition in festival publicity.

“The purpose of the Festival is to encourage the development of new plays and to bring fresh energy to our stage and our community,” said Steven David Martin, Director of the Raven Players. “The Raven has a history of supporting up-and-coming playwrights and we are delighted to broaden our scope in this fun and exciting way.”

Playwrights may submit work, or get more information about submission guidelines, at Raventheater.org or contact Laurie Windham at shortplays@raventheater.org.