FutureFest 2012

July 27-29, 2012

Dayton Playhouse has sponsored FutureFest, a festival of new and unproduced plays for over twenty five years, put on by a community theater run entirely by volunteers. Each year we bring you in one weekend six new unproduced plays as chosen by the FF committee from the submissions entered that year. Each play is dramatised as either a staged reading or a full dramatisation. Each play is a full length play and we do not limit the subject matter. We bring the playwrights to the festival for the weekend so you can mingle with them and we have talk back sessions with them after their show. We bring in adjudicators from around the country to pick the best play and give the playwrights a professional critique in front of the FF audience. It's a play lover's dream come true, and an opportunity a playwright can't get anywhere else.

Finalists: 

• A Political Woman
  • Directed by Gayle Smith, Fully Staged, Fri. 8pm
• Provenance
  • Directed by David Shough, Staged Reading, Sat. 10am
• Nureyev's Eyes
  • Directed by Annie Pesch, Staged Reading, Sat. 3pm
• Curve
  • Directed by Jim Lockwood, Fully Staged, Sat. 8pm
• Excavation
  • Directed by Nancy Campbell, Staged Reading, Sun. 10am
• This Rough Magic
  • Directed by Cynthia Karns, Fully Staged, Sun. 3pm

Author names withheld until after adjudicators have made their rankings. 

Adjudicators:

• David Finkle
• Rob Koon
• Faye Sholiton (FF winner 1997)
• Helen Sneed
• Eleanore Speert

Auditions:

• June 3 - Sunday - 2 pm (all plays)
• June 4 - Monday - 7 pm (fully staged)
• June 5 - Tuesday - 7 pm (staged readings)
• More details to come!

Weekend passes are $95 for all six shows. On sale now!

Individual tickets go on sale July 2 for $18 per show. 

Play Submissions:

Submissions for plays for 2013 will go live at the end of summer 2012, but you can see the guidelines from 2012 to get an idea of what you need to do to submit your play.

Volunteers:

We're always looking for volunteers to read plays and help with FutureFest. If you'd like to become a part of this great tradition, please contact Fran Pesch, we'd love to have you.