Marin Theatre Company Announces Finalists for Sixth Annual 10-Minute Play Festival

Marin Theatre Company's Teen Apprentice Program and Director of Education Daunielle Rasmussen are pleased to announce the eight finalists of the sixth annual 10-Minute Play Festival:

• 17 Biblical Cats by Holly Voorsanger, Sir Francis Drake High School
• 20 Minutes with the Love you Lost by Grace McNally, Novato High School
• Guess Who? Not You by Perry Parsons, Sonoma Academy
• The Late Night Entertainment by Isabella Blofeld, San Marin High School
• The Life, Death, and Revival of a Play by Sasha Manus, Jewish Community High School of the Bay
• Please Stand Up by Sarah Bender-Resnik, Novato High School
• Portrait for Two by Abby Bordin, Tamalpais High School
• Yester-Yesterday by Leo Zaklikowski, Redwood High School

Part of MTC's Marin Young Playwrights Festival, this event features Marin County teens acting in eight ten-minute, script-in-hand performances at MTC, 397 Miller Avenue in Mill Valley, on Saturday, March 7, at 2:00 p.m. This event is $5 and open to the public. Advance reservations are strongly recommended. For more information, visit marintheatre.org, call (415) 388-5208 or email boxoffice@marintheatre.org.

Through the 10-Minute Play Festival and the 24-Hour Playwriting Festival, the Marin Young Playwrights Festival celebrates the work of teen playwrights in Marin County and encourages a focus on playwriting in local high schools. Each fall, teens who live in Marin are encouraged to submit original scripts to the 10-Minute Play Festival. The Teen Apprentice Program, which is made up of local high school students who serve as ambassadors between MTC and the teen community in Marin County, reviews the scripts in a blinded process and selects eight finalists. Directed by MTC teaching artists, local teens perform the finalist plays at the annual festival held at MTC.

MTC's artistic staff serves as judges and selects one winning script. Now in its sixth year, the Marin Young Playwrights Festival is sponsored by MTC and produced by the company's Teen Apprentice Program. This season, the Teen Advisory Board selected the eight finalists from 73 submissions.

ABOUT MTC - Founded in 1966, Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area's premier mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in our 231-seat main stage theater, as well as a five-show Theater Series for Young Audiences in partnership with the Bay Area Children's Theatre in our 99-seat studio theater. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes productions of world premieres, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, readings and workshops by the nation's best emerging playwrights and membership in the National New Play Network. Our numerous education programs serve more than 6,000 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.