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The longest running short play festival in the world!

8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival
Sold out run in 2023!
The annual 10-minute play festival is one of the most anticipated and popular events of the theatre season in Santa Cruz. 

See photos from this year's shows: 

The 2023 Best of the Rest
Staged readings of the runners up from this year's 8 Tens @ 8 Festival
Presented May 19, 20 & 21
Plays were performed script in hand by an ensemble cast, co-directed by 8 Tens directors Rebecca Clark and Cathy Warner.


Looking Back at 8 Tens @ 8
Watch some audience favorites from past Festivals in this video. 

  • Why God Made Beggars - 2020

  • True - 2017

  • Waiting For Their Flights - 2018

  • Phone Sets - 2018

  • Dragon Skin - 2018

How the 8 Tens Festival
Became a Theatre Phenomenon
Read the Good Times cover story HERE
 

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