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Theatre Odyssey 20th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival

When

Runs from Thursday January 9 2025 to Sunday January 12 2025

Approximate running time: 2 hours

Venue

Jane B. Cook Theatre
5555 N. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota FL 34243

Show Notes

× Theatre Odyssey's 20th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, January 9 through 12, 2025, presents eight never-before-produced plays, all written by Florida playwrights. In addition, last season's Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival's Best Play is presented as a bonus play. The running time for each evening and matinee performance will be two hours including Intermission. This is an adjudicated festival and the award ceremony for the Best Play, Runner-up, and all finalists immediately follows the Sunday matinee. Here are the plays vying for Best Play and the Verna Safran Prize ($500) and Runner-up, $300

A Very Private Person by Don Salvo, Celebration
Abduction by Stephen Walkiewicz, Orlando
Feel Good, Inc. by Bernie Yanelli, Bradenton
Love my Dog, Love Me by Seva Anthony, Bradenton
Outcast and Rebels by Marj O’Neill-Butler, Miami
Something is Rotten on the Stage of Glenmark by Ken Preuss, Oviedo
Strangers Off a Train by Samara Siskind, Fort Lauderdale
The Intermission by Jan Wallace, Sarasota


The festival takes place at the Jane B. Cook Theatre at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.

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Arts Center
The Manatee Players, Inc.
502 Third Avenue West,
Bradenton, FL 34205
Administrative Offices
941-749-1111
10 AM - 5 PM | Mon - Fri

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