What Happens if I’m a 15 Tens Round One Winner?
Five winning playwrights/plays will be announced for each of three categories at a virtual event scheduled for Saturday morning, December 9, 2020. All entrants will be invited to a Zoom event. The 2021 15 Ten Short Play Festival has been modified due to COVID-19 restrictions. Details for this virtual event will be announced through email in early December 2020.
Each of the 15 winning playwrights will have five weeks to cast, prepare and rehearse their work. Playwrights will be able to make slight modifications to scripts as their work takes shape during the rehearsal process.
Assuming that travel and gathering restrictions allow the 15 winners’ teams to social distance in order to record at the Depot Theater, hour-long appointments will be scheduled on Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16, 2021. Each playwright and team will schedule a 30-minute consultation with sound/light technicians and then will perform their work to be recorded on video. All recordings will be blind judged by the regional panel and grand prize winners will be selected from the video reviews. In future years, the consultations and performances will be live and on-site.
Those plays written in a language other than English may be performed in either the language in which they are written or in English as long as an English script is provided. The winning scripts and videos will be posted on the Depot Theater’s website.