Semi-finalists Announced for 37th Annual Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival

Samuel French Inc. Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival announces the 40 semi-finalists for its 37th annual season. Chosen from over nine hundred submissions by playwriting workshops, university theatre programs, and professional companies both in the U.S. and abroad, these 40 plays will be presented October 23rd–27th with finals on Sunday October 28th at the Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street). Out of these plays, six finalists will be chosen by the Samuel French, Inc. editorial staff to receive publication and licensing contracts.

This week-long Samuel French Inc. Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival features a full program of selected plays performed for audiences and a panel of judges comprised of established playwrights, literary agents and artistic directors who nominate one or more of each evening's plays as finalists. The "Final Forty" (with its corresponding producer/producing organization in parentheses) are:

18:30 by Oliver Thurn (Theater for the New City)
Anniversary by Rachel Bonds (Rachel Bonds)
Burying Barbie by Christopher Dimond (Christopher Dimond)
Cyanocitta by Jason Gray Platt (Jason Gray Platt)
Edison/Tesla: Brian/Dave by Darren Miller and Kevin Mead (Melge Media)
Everything I've Ever Done Wrong (Amplified) by Joel Horwood (Superwolf)
The Fatwa of Corpsman Johnny Jones by Greg Oliver Bodine (North Shore Theatre
Productions)
Forgetting to Remember by Greg Kalleres (Greg Kalleres)
A Frog in Boiling Water by Dallas Woodburn (Dallas Woodburn)
Glossolalia by Chris Braak (Chris Braak)
Happiness 1.0 by John Walch and Jeff Tang (John Walch)
In Naked Time by Jason Jung (HB Studio)
Jazz Visits Gay New York by Emily Chadick Weiss (Emily Chadick Weiss)
Kabul Screams by Delvyn C. Case, Jr. (First Baptist Church / Acorn Studios)
Kathleen Turner's Ear by JoNathan Edwards (Steep Theatre Company)
Lobster Man by Jonathan Cook (Jonathan Cook)
Maraschino Red by Steven Simoncic (Steven Simoncic)
Missed Connection by Catya McMullen (Catya McMullen)
Naked Eyes by Dean Imperial (Dean Imperial)
Nick And Molly Jump The Shark by Colleen Scriven (Colleen Scriven)
One, Three, Two by Michael Weems (Phare Play Productions)
Ori and Addison by James C. Ferguson (James C. Ferguson)
Ouagadougou by Perry Guzzi (HB Studio)
Painted Desert by Deborah Yarchun (Rogue Theater)
Party Awesome Fun, Awesome Fun Party by Jon Caren (Third Man Productions)
Peanut Butter Patty by Sam Affoumado (Sam Affoumado)
Peola's Passing by Cynthia G. Robinson (Robinson Williams Productions)
The Pickle Queen by Moe Yousuf (Moe Yousuf)
Private Moments Of (Re)Creation by Charlotte Rahn-Lee (The Uncut Pages Theater
Company)
Release by Melissa Gawlowski (Marmaduke Theatre Company)
Screech by Michael Ross Albert (Outside Inside)
Shirley Vs. The Squirrels by Camilla Maxwell (Boat Drinks Ink, LLC)
Sisters By Law by Erin Austin (Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company)
Socks Without Partners by Laurie Eliscu (Hudson River Repertory Co.)
Something In Your Stomach by Erika Sheffer (Personal Space Theatrics)
The Speed Date by Jackob G. Hofmann (The Aurora Theatre Ensemble)
Superhero by Mark Harvey Levine (Artist's Exchange)
The Tin by Zayre Ferrer and Rona Siddiqui (Zayre Ferrer)
What Goes Up by Allyson Morgan (F*It Club)
Wolf Play by Claire Kiechel (New School for Drama)

The Off Off Broadway Festival started in 1975 and is Manhattan's most established short
play festival. Hundreds of theatre companies and schools have participated in the Festival's
first thirty-six years, including companies from coast to coast and abroad. This Festival has
served as a doorway to future success for many aspiring writers. Since its inception, over
two hundred plays from the Festival have been published, and many of the participants
have become established, award-winning playwrights including Theresa Rebeck, Shirley
Lauro, Bekah Brunstetter, Steve Yockey, David Johnston and Sheila Callaghan.

Samuel French Inc. was founded in 1830 with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and
London, and a retail bookstore in Hollywood making it the oldest and largest publisher and
licensor of plays in the world.

For more info visit www.samuelfrench.com/oobfestival.