Warner International Playwright Festival Coming to the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre

Torrington, CT - The first Warner Theatre International Playwright Festival will take place in the Warner’s Nancy Marine Studio Theatre July 12-14, 2012 at 8pm each evening. They are one-act plays. A ticket buys you the evening of whatever plays are scheduled. $15 for one evening of plays, $25 for 2 evenings and $35 for 3 evenings.

The Festival is a celebration of new works by playwrights from across the country and around the globe. Festival director, Charlene Donaghy, a Kennedy award-winning playwright, who has organized numerous other festivals around the country has announced that 11 one-act plays have been selected from the 272 plays submitted. Submissions came from across the United States and Canada and as far away as Ireland, Wales, Australia, Costa Rica, and China.The Warner has just learned that winning playwright, Gayle Malloy of Western Australia will be one of the playwrights making the trip to Torrington for the festival.

The 11 plays selected will be shown over the course of three themed evenings giving patrons the opportunity to see 4-5 plays with each ticket purchase.

WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS – per night:

Thursday, July 12, 2012 - Family Fractures and Fusions:

FAR NORTH by Victoria Z. Daly of New York
BURIED by Robbi D’Allessandro of Massachusetts
THE THIRD TIME by Stephen Peirick of Missouri
INTAKE by Margot Lasher of Vermont

Friday, July 13, 2012 - Everything Is Not As It Seems:

A GENTLER PLACE by Jeff Carter of California
ANOTHER AUGUST* by Charlene A. Donaghy of Connecticut
THE BALLOON HANDLER MAKES GOOD by Mark Charney of Texas
SINGULAR OF DICE by Ross Tedford Kendall of California
CAUGHT, WITHOUT CANDY* by Gary Garrison of New York

*By Invitation

Saturday, July 14, 2012 - From the Beyond:

BREATHING WATER INSTEAD OF AIR by Tira Palmquist of California
YESTERDAYS AND TOMORROWS by Gayle Malloy of Western Australia
THE BARGAIN by Joel Fishbane of Montreal, Canada
THE ANTICHRIST COMETH by David MacGregor of Michigan

For more information or to purchase tickets call the Warner box office at 860-489-7180 or online at www.warnertheatre.org

The mission of The Warner International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to build a link between playwrights, the theatre community, and our audiences. The Festival gives playwrights a forum for production of their one-act plays that engage and entertain audiences through exploration of the human experience and the human spirit. 

The Warner International Playwrights Festival is a celebration of new works by playwrights from across the country and around the globe. The Festival gives playwrights the avenue to submit works that explores the human experience and the human spirit through the presentation of dramatic work. 

For the Inaugural Year 
From 272 submitted plays from across the United States and Canada, and as far away as Ireland, Wales, Australia, Costa Rica, and China were submitted. 

11 winners have been selected.

Festival Director:  Charlene George- Donaghy

Special thanks to the theatre professionals who read for the festival: Val Vitalo, Lea Dmytryck, Sharon Wilcox, Amanda Shaffer, Andy Landis, Benjamin Marshall, Julie Weinberg, Deborah Weiss, Fonzie Geary, Bara Swain, Mary Conroy, Donna Barkman, Delaine Douglas, Philippe Stessel, Benjamin Graber.