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Add To My CalendarThe Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival honors new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors.
The festival endeavors both to recognize playwrights for their outstanding work and to provide a resource for universities across the country to identify dynamic plays with robust roles for college-aged actors for production at their institutions. The festival features both a full-length and short play division.
The 2023 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival will be held in person at the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance on the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University from May 28-June 3 of 2023.
The festival will feature staged readings of five Official Selection full-length plays and ten Official Selection short plays, as well as workshops and seminars on playwriting and new play development.
At the conclusion of the festival, one full-length play will be selected for the festival’s top prize and will receive its world premiere in the 2023-2024 Dobbins Conservatory Mainstage Season and will be considered for publication by Concord Theatricals, the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark, and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection.
2023 FULL-LENGTH OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Insignificant Bugs by Keiko Green
The Light Keepers by Lindsay Partain
Power Play by Rachel Greene
Our Play by Jessica Moss
The Lost Girls by C Meaker
2023 FULL-LENGTH FINALISTS
After this Episode by Brianna Barrett
Alone Together by Walter Dodd
The Golden Door by Lia Romeo
let’s talk about anything else by Anthony Anello
The Marginals by Kate Brennan
Misfits & Mustangs by John Mabey
N0 D@Y BU+ +0d@y by Jan Rosenberg
No Entrance by Courtney Taylor
Once on Rumspringa by Ellis Abigail Stump
Passive Shooter by J.S. Puller
rosaline by Ryan Stevens
They Played in Peoria by Maggie Lou Rader
A Wife in the Shadows by Julius Galacki
2023 SHORT PLAY OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
SATURDAY, JUNE 3 AT 2 PM
Arms Length Romance (a Duologue) by John Busser
Maybe for a Minute by Tori Rice
Exophilia by Keith Whalen
Road Trip by James McLindon
Young Women of Valor by Shara Feit
