The 26th Annual New Voice Play Festival
June 19, 20, 21 2026
Four new One-Act plays presented at each performance.
The audience votes and selects the winner of the festival.
This year’s Four Finalists are:
Dust to Dust
Written by Johanna Beale Keller
Directed by Charlie Perkins
Prudence has come home from London to the small Southern town of Smallville to help her hilariously hypochondriacal sister, Verity, with the details of their father's passing, whom they both loved. The fastidious housekeeper Dotty will vacuum up anything it seems (oops) and then there is a mix-up of ashes when the local funeral director, Rufus T. Bullcocke, and long-lost love of Verity, arrives. But it turns out there is a hidden love affair that no one ever suspected!
Featuring:
Linda Romero as Verity Higgenbottom
Christine Brewer as Prudence Higgenbottom-Forster
Amy Hebb as Dottie
Michael George as Rufus T. Bullcocke
The Get-Away
Written by Rich Rubin
Directed by Caroline Brewer
A husband and wife are startled by what they encounter at an isolated lakeside cabin.
Featuring:
Adam Blackstock as Ray
Trae Yates as Maggie
Glenn Frail as Fitz
Hilary Martinson as Teri
The Princess and the Crone
Written by Enid Cokinos
Directed by Val Phillips
Retirement is looming for Haldora Grizzletoes, an aging fairy godmother whose long-awaited dream of being honored at the prestigious Winterfall Croning Ceremony is slipping away. A recent princess-related debacle threatens to unravel her aspirations, and as she stands before the Crone Council of Winterfall, she makes a final plea for one more matchmaking assignment to prove her merit. But will this last chance be too challenging for even the great Haldora?
Featuring:
Katie Rogers as Haldora
Sandra DeRocha as Madam Heartspire
Claire Alyse Cook as Princess Malvina
Stephanie Wells as Lady Moonlace
The Sillage Mirage
Written by Jay Huling
Directed by Charles “Joey” Thorne
Set inside an austere, nearly empty perfume boutique, The Sillage Mirage follows Robert Dorian, a self-assured businessman in search of a cologne that will make him irresistible. He quickly learns that Sillage Perfumery does not offer choices: its enigmatic proprietor, Madam Agnew, assigns each customer the scent that suits their true essence. As devoted patrons return, transformed by fragrances they trust blindly, Dorian’s confidence curdles into entitlement and rage when he is denied what he wants most.
A darkly comic morality play, The Sillage Mirage explores obsession with image, the illusion of self-knowledge, and the cost of believing the world should conform to one’s desires —revealing, in its final moments, that some essences linger longer than others.
Featuring:
Alison Vistica as Madame Agnew
John Glymph as Robert Dorian
Ted Lehr as Joe Keppler
Julie Smith as Julia Manning
Jennifer Glymph as Colette Pembroke
Honorable Mentions
Buntlett Wedding Weekend by Vicki Riba Koestler (Alexandria, VA)
Coffee with Cream and Cyanide
by Steven D. Miller (Duluth, GA)Forward Pass by Lawson Caldwell
(Charlotte, NC)Rice, Sam by Rand Higbee (Yachats, OR)
The Shuttle Table by Joyce Bevc
(Pittsburgh, PA)