Festival Of Shorts

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.

We are pleased to announce our theme and call for submissions for our 14th Annual Festival of Shorts. 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 “CROSSROADS: a choice or event that changed courses.” 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 only given blind copies of script submissions for judging.

After the closing performance, we will announce the winners for: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Judges’ Awards and Overall Audience Favorite.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SHORT:

To enter your short play in the festival, please follow the instructions below.

Submit an original script for a short play based on the following guidelines:

• Has not been previously produced (a staged reading is acceptable)
• 10-12 minutes run time (approximately 1 min./page, adjusting for longer monologues, etc.)
• Minimum of 2 characters – maximum of 5 characters
• Can be staged with minimal sets, props, and costumes but storyline can still be followed
• Limited foul language
• Be sure to incorporate the theme of “CROSSROADS” into your story. The term “crossroads” does not been to be included in the title or words of the script, but the relation to the theme must be clear to our audiences.

Submit your play by completing the Google Survey (linked below) by 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2025.

• Your original short submission should be in Standard Stage Play Format (for an example, please click HERE) with the script and title of the play ONLY. No identifying information about the playwright is to appear in this “blind” copy. All playwrights who fail to submit a blind copy of their script will be disqualified. The blind copy of the script preserves anonymity in our reader selections to keep the process as fair for playwrights as possible.

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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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