Jeff Locker News

Short+Sweet Hollywood’s 2025 season has officially concluded, with winners announced during a ceremony on Sunday led by Festival Director Ashley Karp and Producer Soda Persi.

Short+Sweet Hollywood has announced the full slate of finalists for its 2025 season, featuring a mix of returning artists and first-time participants. The festival will present Latin X Finals on November 21, English Finals on November 22, and an Awards Show and Gala on November 23 at the Victory Theatre in Burbank.

The Short+Sweet Hollywood 2025 semi-finalists have been announced, marking what organizers call “one of the best seasons the festival has seen.”

Short+Sweet Hollywood will return for its seventh season this fall, running October 17 through November 23, 2025, at the Victory Theater in Burbank. Festival Director Ashley Karp will once again lead the event, which will showcase a wide range of ten-minute plays created by both returning and new artists.

Rose City Center will present Peace of Mind II: A Festival of Short Plays on September 6, 2024, at The Colony Theatre in Burbank. Written and directed by Jeff Locker, this one-night-only fundraising event features award-winning short plays performed by a star-studded cast.

Short+Sweet Hollywood 2024 has revealed the finalists for its competition-based festival. Learn more about the finalists and about the event !

Short+Sweet Hollywood 2024 has announced top semi-finalists in their 10-minute plays competition, with sold-out shows, industry judges, and new prizes.

Join the Rose City Center for PEACE OF MIND, a festival of short plays by Jeff Locker, showcasing at the Colony Theatre on May 4th. Experience an evening of thought-provoking theatre.

Brisk Festival L.A. enters its fifth and final weekend, September 1-3rd at the Morgan-Wixson Theater.

Watch the Yale in Hollywood Fest, the virtual global festival in its third edition, which announced its awards and held its livestream ceremony on December 3.

The eighth annual Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) announced its competition winners at a star-studded event November 18 at Beverly Hill's Saban Theater. The Last Film Show (India), directed by Pan Nalin, won the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film; Mohsen Tanabandeh garnered the Snow Leopard for Best Actor for World War III (Iran), and Hui Fang Hong was honored with the Snow Leopard for Best Actress for Ajoomma (Singapore).

Yale in Hollywood will present its third global virtual film festival, Yale in Hollywood Fest, from December 1 to 3, 2022, with a three-day line up of feature and short films and an esteemed alumnae jury consisting of actress Robinne Lee, Obbie winning playwright David Henry Hwang, last year's festival winner actor/writer Jeff Locker and actress/current Yale student Sophia Mitri Schloss.

The Short+Sweet Hollywood 2022 festival of short works is concluded. Check out the list of the winners in its awards competition!

The Short+Sweet Hollywood festival of short plays announces the last semi-finalists of its Open Theatre (English language) division.

Known as 'The biggest little festival in the World,' Short+Sweet is the world's largest-reaching performing arts festival dedicated to original short form Theatre, Music and Dance.

Yale in Hollywood will present its third global virtual film festival, Yale in Hollywood Fest, from December 1 to 3, 2022, with a three-day line up of feature and short films and an esteemed alumnae jury consisting of actress Robinne Lee, Obbie winning playwright David Henry Hwang, last year's festival winner actor/writer Jeff Locker and actress/current Yale student Sophia Mitri Schloss.

San Francisco Playhouse  announced five new episodes of its live streaming calendar, including three Zoomlet Live Play Readings and two Fireside Chats. The events will be streamed free of charge on the Company's website. Announcements of additional episodes and programming will be made over the coming weeks.

Due to COVID-19, Yale in Hollywood will present its First Annual Spring Jam on-line, live streaming worldwide at 4 pm PST & 7 pm EST on Friday, April 3, 2020 via its newly launched Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/yaleinhollywood/

Yale in Hollywood is proud to present the first annual Spring Jam in Los Angeles. Join us for an evening of music, comedy and performances from Yale alums on Friday April 3 at 8 pm at the Pikey in Los Angeles at 7617 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046. Free Admission and RSVP via Eventbrite: https://yihspringjam.eventbrite.com

Theatre Arts Productions (TAP) will stage TAP Shorts, an evening of short plays written, performed and directed by up-and-coming artists. This festival will take place on Saturday, December 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Standing Ovation Performing Arts.