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The longest running short play festival in the world!
8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival
Tickets for the 2025 Festival go on sale the Friday after Thanksgiving
The annual 10-minute play festival is one of the most anticipated and popular events of the theatre season in Santa Cruz.
See the 2025 Selections
See photos from the 2024 Festival:
The Best of the Rest
Staged readings of the 8 runners up from each year's 8 Tens @ 8 Festival
Plays are performed script in hand by an ensemble cast, co-directed by 8 Tens directors.
Shows in March each year
Submissions for the 2026
International Short Play Contest
ARE NOW OPEN
Deadline is June 30, 2025
Looking Back at 8 Tens @ 8
Watch some audience favorites from past Festivals in this video.
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Why God Made Beggars - 2020
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True - 2017
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Waiting For Their Flights - 2018
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Phone Sets - 2018
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Dragon Skin - 2018
How the 8 Tens Festival
Became a Theatre Phenomenon
Read the Good Times cover story HERE
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