The 2024 New Voice Play Festival

See all four plays - June 21, 22, 23
The audience selects the winner of the Festival! 

Each year, this one-act play festival attracts some of the country’s most talented new playwrights. See four of the best plays submitted each year and get serve as a theatre critic by voting for your favorite entry!

 Afterlife

Written by John Nicholas Schweitzer
Drama directed by Rory Dunn

If you could see how your life would change by making a single decision, would you? That is the question Eddie faces when he awakens in a strange empty space after a fatal car crash. Guided by the androgynous Astral, a being of unearthly origin, he faces down his biggest regret.

Note: This adult drama addresses school violence and a mass shooting.

Featuring
Glenn Frail as Eddie 1
Jonathan Quigley as Eddie 2
Julie Philabaum as Astral

Mean to Me

Written by Carl Williams
Drama directed by Elizabeth Egan
Assistant Director – Shawn Smialek 

A young woman must determine her destiny by choosing between two very different suitors.

Featuring
Caitlyn Shrom as Carla Franklin
Linda Romero as Harriet Simms
Daniel Rossbach as Tom Jennings  
Juan Hernandez as Sherman Carlyle

 Temporary Affection Order

Written by L.D. Potter
Comedy directed by Zac Gilbert

When two divorce lawyers begin to take their case a bit too personally and tension rises, the Judge calls for a recess. The Judge demands that the lawyers reflect on their own relationship, leading them to uncover their true feelings for one another.

Featuring
Jeanine Evans as Judge Keller
Dustin McQuaid as Cavan Klapperich
Taylor Mason as Karissa Twohy

We are Doing Some Work in Your Neighborhood

Written by Jennifer Hart  
Comedy directed by Sarah Ann Celec

Every neighborhood comes with that one person who knows everyone else's business. Meet Helen. She knows everyone in her neighborhood and whether their hedges are too high or if they have too many cars parked around their house. She takes the rules of the neighborhood association to the extreme in her zest to keep the riffraff out and where they belong. Everything changes when she meets Smith.

Featuring
Gabrielle Moseley as Helen
John Glymph as Smith