UPDATE:
We have picked and presented the first five plays from the festival.
The 2022 plays will be presented a second time on January 27th and 28th.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN 10 MINUTES SHOW 2 tickets (ticket link)
WINNING PLAYS / PLAYWRIGHTS - ROUND 1
Anything in 10 Minutes Round 1 Photos
We will continuing to review plays in January and February and will be picking additional plays for production in 2023. Each winning playwright will receive a $100 production prize for up to 4 productions of a winning play.
Pan Theater presents Anything Can Happen in Ten Minutes, a collection of short plays by some of the nation’s top emerging playwrights.
Past Plays presented have included:
You’ll Go Blind
by Joe Musso
Fat Naked Truckers
by Justin Warner
Enough is Enough
by Diane Sampson
Table for Three
by Carl Williams
Strange Bedfellows
by Peggy Dougherty
Barbed Wire Minute
by Krista Knight
The Age of Ugly Shoes
by Jeff Carter
Barbara from Saturn of Ramsey
by Christopher Buckley
How to Ruin Monday Night Football
by Aleks Merilo
October by Ginger Lazarus, Bury Barry
by Michael Rubenfeld
Ginsburg, Fisher of Souls by Paul Kahn
Some of All Parts
by Mrinalini Kamath
Insomnia
by Patrick Gabridge,
High Noon
by Adams Szymkowicz
The Longest Night
by Alina Trowbridge
Examples of Past Play Festival Winners (YouTube)
-Zombie Love
Play Festival Fees:
One Play: NO SUBMISSION FEE. FREE.
Two - Five Plays: $7 (check payable to: Pan Theater). Please submit all plays together with a cover sheet.
Pan Theater, where neurons fire faster, has been bringing comedic and dramatic improv to the San Francisco Bay Area and Oakland since 2002.
The theme of the festival is: Anything Can Happen in Ten Minutes.
We Are No Longer Accepting Plays for this year’s festival.
Play Festival Winners:
All writers with plays accepted for production will paid at the rate of $100 per winning play. There will be 10 plays produced.
We are seeking a range of plays from serious/dramatic to absurd/comedic.
Suggestions for submissions:
-Have the play read by actors before submitting
-Provide some idea of preferred types for the characters
-Provide some background detail for the actors
-All submissions should include a synopsis and character outlines
-We will be limiting winning plays to those that can be performed within 10 minutes at most.
-Limit the number of actors to five at most
-The play should be appropriate to a minimalist production style
-Plays that can be easily played by different perspectives
Notes from the winning prior submissions:
Only one winning play was over ten pages in length
No play with more than five characters was chosen as a festival winner
Plays requiring extensive props and scenery were not chosen
Each play could be easily summarized in one sentence
Authors followed submission guidelines
Winning plays had strong central relationships
Winning plays had a strong main action/event
Characters were transformed during the play
Plays chosen were easy to produce with minimal scenery/props
Plays were easy to cast from our performing troupes
Plays will be judged by a panel of local performers, directors, actors, and writers.
Each piece will be rated separately on the following metrics:
-Meets performance requirements suggested
-Provides strong sense of character, location, and action
-Casting description/suggestions is flexible
-Story holds interest with discernible and actable objectives
-Play is either a complete story/scene
-Writing is entertaining and provides a scene that will hold audience interest
Submission Details: Format
For each play submitted, the number of copies sent should be equal to the number of characters in your play. Two characters plays would require two copies of the play. Three character plays would require three copies of the play. Include SASE if you wish the originals returned.
We will not accept copies sent as part of the body of an email or as attachments. Only hardcopies of plays accepted.
What to include:
Writer's info
Production/Reading History
Synopsis/Character Info
Production suggestions
Fees:
1 play - NO FEE
2 - 5 plays $7 (total)
Deadline
September 25th.
Chosen authors/playwrights will be notified the week of October 15th. Winning authors/playwrights will receive $100 festival award per winning play.
Send Play and Submission Fees to:
We are no longer accepting submissions for this year’s festival.
Fees Payable to: Pan Theater
Playwrights with plays chosen for production will receive $100 per play that is produced. Winning playwrights grant Pan Theater the right to stage a winning play up to 4 times. Plays already produced/performed are acceptable.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
IN 10 Minutes 2022 - 2023