Shakespeare on the Sound's
Short New Play Festival
3rd Annual
Saturday, November 12th
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On Saturday, November 12
join us at the
Rowayton Community Center Moose Room
to hear for new 10-minute plays written by playwrights from across the country and performed by some of your favorite SOS actors.
Come early and join us for a cocktail party where
we'll announce the summer 2023 show!
5:30 Cocktail Party & Season Announcement
7:00 Show Begins
8:00 Show Ends
Tickets are $10 for General Admission
Featuring plays by
Jillian Blevins
Monica Cross
Jennifer Ju
Emery Schaffer
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Performed by
Sara Bakker
Megan Ermilio
Claire Kelly
James Nash
Nick Urda
Hannah Williams
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PLAYWRIGHTS
JILLIAN BLEVINS she/her
Jillian Blevins is a Massachusetts-based playwright, actor, director, and dramaturge. Her short play 'Tipping' was produced for Providence's Bar Plays series, and 'Wake' for Elemental Theatre's 3.a.go.go. In 2020/21, she conceived and produced 'Digital Dionysia', a six-week online new works festival of 24 original plays by playwrights from all over the country and the world, which featured her plays 'Izzy at Zoom Therapy' and 'Be The Bacchae'. Her queer historical dramedy, 'Romeo & Her Sister' received a staged reading at Orlando's Whiskey Theatre Factory.
MONICA CROSS
Monica Cross is a playwright, director, and dramaturg residing in northwestern Wisconsin. She has her MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University. Wonder of Our Stage, Monica's first full-length play, was winner of the 2018 Players New Play Festival in Sarasota, FL, and went on to be included in their Summer Sizzler Series in 2019. In 2022, she had her one-act verse play, The Changeling, developed at the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, FL, and has gone on to have two subsequent college productions. Her 10-minute play “On Robots and Raindrops”, which was a part of the New Play Development Workshop at ATHE in 2021, was published in 2022 in Ten-Minute Play Festival, Volume Four: 2018 – 2021 by Theatre Odyssey. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her plays can be found on the New Play Exchange.
JENNIFER JU
Jennifer Ju is a playwright, actor, newspaper columnist, and physician, who also provides professional development for K-12 educators on mindfulness and wellness. Her monologue “Turn of the Tide” was published in a book featuring a compilation of works honoring the lives lost in the pandemic. Jennifer's plays have been produced in various theaters and play festivals throughout Connecticut and New York, including Shakespeare on the Sound's 1st Short Play Festival in 2020, Equity Library Theatre in NYC, and as a finalist in The Secret Theatre's 2022 5-week play festival in Queens. Jennifer thanks Shakespeare on the Sound for this opportunity to create, explore, and connect with the community.