I.T. TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF ORIGINAL PLAYS BY LOCAL AUTHORS
Every August, Island Theatre presents the TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL – a celebration of local plays, playwrights, actors and directors.
The centerpiece of FESTIVAL WEEK is the Ten-Minute Play Festival – a juried selection of plays by Kitsap County playwrights—both established and aspiring. The winning plays are fully staged and performed at Bainbridge Performing Arts in both evening and matinee performances.
The deadline for play submissions each year is Valentine's Day, February 14th. Sign up for our mailing list below to receive notifications.
FESTIVAL WEEK kicks off with Meet the Playwrights, a panel discussion and Q&A with the playwrights behind each year’s winning plays.
Each fall we host the TEN-MINUTE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP -- a two-session course taught by a professional playwright and teacher that gives you a jumpstart on writing a play for next year’s Festival.
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The 2025 Island Theatre
Ten-Minute Play Festival!
Island Theatre is now accepting submissions of ten-minute plays for our 2025 Ten-Minute Play Festival! Submission deadline is February 14, 2025. The theme for the 2025 Festival is ESCAPE.
What does ESCAPE suggest to you? Is it an escape from. . . or an escape to? Is it a physical escape. . . or an escape in which one never takes a physical step? Is it bold or surreptitious? Sudden or long-planned? An act of choiceless desperation or one of powerful self-assertion?
Is “escape” the beginning of the story or the end? Or is it the pivot point that dramatically changes the action?
What you make of ESCAPE is up to you – just make sure it’s central to your story.
The competition is open to all Kitsap County playwrights – experienced and aspiring – high school age and above. To be a “Kitsap County playwright” means you currently live or work in Kitsap County, or you lived or worked here for a substantial period in the past.
Ten plays will be chosen from all the submissions by a panel of theatre professionals and the Island Theatre board of directors, and announced in April. The chosen plays will be performed during Island Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival in August 2025.
Please share this with anyone you know who might like to enter. We’re eager to see what you create!