The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2024: The Short Plays

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival identifies and supportsnew plays that feature robust roles for college-aged actors, while providing alaboratory to train students in the skills and ethics inherent to collaboratingwith living playwrights on new works. This collection features the ten shortplays that were Official Selections of the 2024 Lanford Wilson New AmericanPlay Festival - chosen from hundreds of submissions from around theUnited States. From the story of a woman learning about her girlfriend's unusual Santatradition, to a couple's unlikely reunion after a life-altering science experiment,to a young woman's roommates intervening in her love affair with an oyster,the plays are smart, funny, and full of deeply human characters. They can beperformed individually or combined into a dynamic evening of theater, all withrobust and challenging roles for actors in their late-teens and twenties.