CRAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Ten-Minute Play Festival!

Synopsis: Eleanor has got quite the present for Leonard on his 70th Birthday. But the fun only starts when the clock strikes midnight. 

WALTER THINNES is an emerging playwright whose thirty-plus plays have received more than 125 productions, readings, or awards in 26 states, and around the world, including The Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference, and several Off-Off-Off-Broadway Theaters. He is the recipient of the Colonial Players’ Promising Playwright Award, Annapolis, MD; Theatre Oxford L.W. Thomas Award, Oxford MS; Appalachian New Play Festival Judge’s Choice Award, Athens, OH; and winner of the Centre-Stage New Play Festival in Greenville, SC. You can learn more at his website www.walterthinnes.com.

Synopsis: Two hungry people contemplate an apple before them as they discuss their host. Is this Paradise or Real Love?  Eat an apple and make the choice.

Christine Emmert is a writer, actress. director and educator. Her work has been read/performed in the USA, UK and Canada. Most recently her novella Dreaming of Storms, was published and is available on Amazon and other sites. Theater is, however, her main love. You can access her full bio on christine-emmert.com as well as facebook.

Synopsis: Janis and Lyle have been looking for love. And they seem to have found it in each other. On an Internet dating site. They both travel a lot, so getting together could be problematic.

They can even share Paris together. Online.

Cary Pepper has had work presented throughout the United States and internationally. Among his full-length plays, How It Works won the 2012 Ashland New Plays Festival and Cufflinked was a semifinalist for the 2014 festival. Among his one-act plays, The Walrus Said won the Religious Arts Guild Playwriting Competition; Small Things won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 2006 One Act Play Contest; Party Favors won the 2016 Goshen Peace Play Contest. Most recently, From the Hoot won the Playwrights First Award, Death Does Larry became his second production by Drip Action Theatre Trail in their Arundel Festival (UK) presentation, and What Do They Want? marked Cary’s third appearance in the Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays (Canada) and made him the first (and to date only) playwright to be included in The St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s LaBute New Theater Festival three times.

Cary is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and a four-time contributor to Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays series (Small Things; House of the Holy Moment; Come Again, Another Day; Irish Stew).

Synopsis: A newlywed husband discovers a problem with his wife’s over-zealous affinity for social media on the day after their wedding.

Daniel Guyton is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Atlanta, GA. His stage plays have been produced nearly 700 times around the world, and he has been published in over 50 anthologies and solo publications, including several of the Best American Short Plays collections. His screenplays have won dozens of awards. He is a theatre professor at Georgia State University and Georgia Military College and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America East. In addition, he is the artistic director of Atlanta Dramatists. For more info, please visit: www.danguyton.com.

Synopsis: A couple living a life on the edge discover that the intersection of love and violence can be exhausting, and and sometimes you need to grasp on to that last shred of humanity however you can. Even if it involves bedbugs.

JUDITH LEORA recent productions includes The Further Adventures of Tent Girl and Nazi Barbie in the Great Whatever at Hillsborough Community College; Showpony at the Victory Theatre Center (LA Times Critics Choice); Elijah at Victory (LA Times Critics Choice)/BVT; WIT 2022, Project Y Theatre; You, Me and Margaret Atwood (short play), Together LA Festival on Twitch, Founding Member/ED NY Madness; Proud member of Honor Roll and The Convening. https://www.judithleora.com/

Synopsis: 10,000 feet up, and two skydivers prepare to leap out of the plane. One is very nervous, making their first ever jump, for charity, the other has different reasons for jumping, and is missing something very important.

Guy spent a career working on making buildings more energy efficient and sustainable.  He is seen regularly on community theatre stages, and started writing for the stage in earnest seven years ago. His plays have been successful in multiple competitions and festivals, leading to more than 80 productions in five countries.  In 2021 he won Canada’s National One Act Playwriting Competition. Guy resides in Ontario, Canada.