The Secret Theatre and Richard Mazda are proud to announce the Queens Short Play Festival.

The festival Curator, Cassandra Gutterman-Johns, has read through 180+ [!!] individual plays of which roughly a third have now been corralled into 8 groups featuring 8 plays.

The 8 programs of 8 plays all get 4 separate performances in a competition-style festival where the audience votes for all of the plays that they see in ranked choice voting them . At the end of the heats, we then take the top 2 plays from each program that progress to the 2 semi-finals in 2 groups of 8 plays, and then the final 8 plays move to the Grand Final. At the final, the Audience is joined by two professional judges, and the voting is expanded to include two nongendered Best Actor and Best Director Awards. The winning Play, Actors [2 nongendered awards], and Director win cash Prizes and a small trophy at the Grand Final on August 10th. This event usually sells out and features our free after-party/BBQ for audience and actors, while votes are counted, this is followed by a fun award ceremony.

Schedule of Events

Queens Short Play Festival Program - A

Alien Abduction
Playwright/Director: Daniel Troubetzkoy

Pas De Deux
Playwright: Joshua Piper

Such Dreams As Stuff Is Made On
Playwright: Dan McGeehan
Director: Julia Genoveva

M1RANDA + ARCH1E
Playwright: Lee Bowser

Red Eye
Playwright: Morris McLennan
Director: Colleen Morgen

Hares are Made to Fly
Playwright: Cassidy Guimares
Director: Nolan Dupont Love

Date and Time:
Wed Feb 12, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Sun Feb 16, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sat Feb 22, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Fri Feb 28, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - B

Holy God, Who's Next
Playwright/Director: Alice Camarota

The Five Year Reunion
Playwright: Jonathan Beebe

Floozy
Playwright: Hendrix Womeldorph
Director: Katharine McNair

Press Pray
Playwright: Seth Freeman
Director: Milton Coykendall

Two of Hearts
Playwright: Sarah Jae Leiber
Director: Jack McManus

Our Time is Up
Playwright: William Zolla II
Director: Joe Patrick Marshall

Worshiping
Playwright: Gav Peters
Director: Alice McKay

Date and Time:
Wed Feb 12, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Fri Feb 21, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Thu Feb 27, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Sun Mar 2, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - C

Thy Neighbor
Playwright/Director: Grace O'Rourke

Last Call
Playwright: Ben Dworken
Director: Lauren Winnenberg

Lineage
Playwright/Director: Ryan Daniel Jones

Have a Seat
Playwright: Cherielyn Ferguson
Director: Katharine McNair

The List
Playwright: Eleanor Evans-Wickberg
Director: Natalie Thomas

Bench Play
Playwright: Lee Bowser

Date and Time:
Thu Feb 13, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wed Feb 19, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sun Feb 23, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sat Mar 1, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - D

Saturn Says Shalom
Playwright: Lauren Elise Fisher
Director: Holly Richmond

Cuddlesmoke
Playwright: Dane Futrell
Director: Milton Coykendall

GrownUps
Playwright/Director: Molly Kate Babos

Antoine at the Border
Playwright: Maggie Lou Rader
Director: Elise Joyner

Acting One
Playwright: Katie Wilson
Director: Nick Luis

In The Minutes Before I Leave
Playwright/Director: Kate Connors

Date and Time:
Thu Feb 13, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sun Feb 16, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Sat Feb 22, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tue Mar 4, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - E

Knock-Down, Drag-Out
Playwright: J. Mecum
Director: Ray Rodriguez

Fireflies Taught Us Pyromania
Playwright: Joshua Piper
Director: Mary Morgan Collier

A Grimm Epilogue
Playwright/Director: Patricia Lynn

Clubhouse
Playwright: Bailey C Lewis

Every Argument In America Right Now
Playwright: Katie Casebolt
Director: Morgana Kate Watson

7 PM Cheer
Playwright/Director: Beth Harpaz

The Wayward Women
Playwright: Emmy Potter
Director: Andrea Romano

Date and Time:
Fri Feb 14, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wed Feb 19, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thu Feb 27, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sat Mar 1, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - F

Take Care
Playwright: Kiley Gaddis
Director: Alice McKay

But Who Can Stand Before Jealousy?
Playwright: Emma Skinner
Director: Elliot Hoke

Love, Lost (Rings), and What We Wore
Playwright: Jessica Burchfield
Director: Elizabeth Nicholson

And They Lived Beneath The Waves
Playwright: Kelsey Puttrich

Bird
Playwright: Ashley Nicole Audette
Producer: Kleo Mitrokostas
Director: Paige Bakke

Model United Nations
Playwright: Thea Belle Flanzer
Director: Erin Grace Kelly

Date and Time:
Fri Feb 14, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Thu Feb 20, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Sun Feb 23, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Tue Mar 4, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - G

Rubato
Playwright: Noah T. Parnes
Director: Mia Fowler

Aurora
Playwright/Director: Rhys Collins

Anna In Winter
Playwright: Jeffrey L Hollman
Director: Steve Hauck

Seance in the Black Cats Backroom
Playwright: Ben Berman
Director: Katharine McNair

Grief Play
Playwright: Abigail Duclos
Director: Alexandra Haddad

Sunny Side Up
Playwright/Director: Reisha Mirit

Not Leaving
Playwright: Julianna Kantor
Director: Gavin Petersen

Date and Time:
Sat Feb 15, 2025: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Thu Feb 20, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Wed Feb 26, 2025: 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Fri Feb 28, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Queens Short Play Festival Program - H

One Man's Show is Another Man's Funeral
Playwright/Director: Karina Verna

Aftershock
Playwright/Director: Kate Katcher

The Bear, Every Time
Playwright: Carrie Keating
Director: Alyson Schacherer

How to be a Person
Playwright: Serena Norr
Director: Karen Marulanda

Otso's Friend
Playwright/Director: Riley Barriger

The Values of Gold, Silver, and Bronze
Playwright/Director: Meagan Meehan

Moonlight Becomes You
Playwright: Jaymie Bellous
Director: Lindsey Alterman

Date and Time:
Sat Feb 15, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fri Feb 21, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wed Feb 26, 2025: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Sun Mar 2, 2025: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Date: February 12-March 9, 2025

Location:
The Secret Theatre,
38-02 61st Street,
Woodside, NY 11377.

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