8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival

The Films

Watch for FREE on Youtube from March 19- April 30

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The 26th annual 10-minute play festival is one of the most anticipated and popular events of the theatre season in Santa Cruz. Eighteen awarded short plays, from our annual International Short Playwriting and Young Playwrights' contests, are performed and directed by some of the best the Santa Cruz theatre community has to offer.

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2022 Festival Line-Up

"A" NIGHT FILM

              

TOGETHER AT LAST

by Stella Pfefferkorn (Youth Playwrights Festival Winner)

Directed by Kathie Kratochvil

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ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE ROBOTS?

by Deirdre Girard. Directed by Gail Borkowski

 

ME AND HIM

by Michael John McGoldrick. Directed by Andrew Davids

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NOBODY'S HERO

by Charles Anderson. Directed by Evan Hunt

                  

FREE HUGS

by L. H. Grant. Directed by Marcus Cato

 

OLD AQUATICS

by Steven Kobar. Directed by Gerry Gerringer     

 

KEW GARDENS

by James Armstrong. Directed by Bill Peters

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GOD ON THE COUCH

by Dan O’Day. Directed by Peter Gelblum

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"B" NIGHT FILM

STRESS FOR SUCCESS

by Terrence Patrick Hughes. Directed by Kathie Kratochvil                          

ROSA AND LEO

by Adam Szudrich. Directed by Jim Schultz 

 

THE MALTESE WALTER

by John Minigan. Directed by Cathy Warner  

 

DITMAS

by Glenn Alterman. Directed Helene Simkin Jara

 

THE CORIOLUS EFFECT

by Robert Lynn. Directed by Anita Natale

 

SLOW DATING

by Adam Szudrich. Directed by Buff McKinley

 

UNHEARD

by Glenn Alterman. Directed by Sarah Albertson    

 

DRESS BLUES

by Donald J. Loftus. Directed by Karin Babbitt  

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