Edmonds Driftwood Players is a volunteer-based nonprofit community theatre based in Edmonds, WA that has been entertaining and educating the community since 1958, making EDP one of the oldest continually operating community theaters in Washington State.
Our annual playwriting festival provides an opportunity for playwrights to have their works brought to life on stage, as well as gain recognition and potential awards. Some past winners have later been developed into full-length award-winning plays!
The Festival this year will be presented in five performances June 26-29, 2025, featuring eight shorts finalists that include multiple directors and casts. The theme for 2025 is “TBD” and will be announced in January. We would love to see both comedic and dramatic stories with uplifting endings.
The finalists are selected from submissions from around the globe. Our volunteer readers and judges are local Seattle-area theatre lovers and playwrights. To keep the process as fair as possible, our readers are given blind copies of script submissions for judging.
Playwrights are asked to submit an original script for a short play based on the following guidelines:
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Congratulations to our 2024 13th Annual Festival of Shorts Finalists!
ACT I
Finding Mother Courage by Pam Kingsley
The Real Thing by Marjorie Williamson (WINNER! 1st Place Judges Award)
The World Needs More Trees by Kimberly Shimer
First Impressions by Kurt Olson
ACT II
The Bench by Romney S. Humphrey
A Much Better Deal by Stephan Feldman (WINNER! 2nd Place Judges Award)
Horseshoe by Sara Freedman (WINNER! 3rd Place Judges Award)
Lemonade by Marjorie Williamson (WINNER! Overall Audience Favorite)
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