Please join us for our 13th Annual Festival of Shorts! The festival this year will be presented in five performances June 27-30, 2024, featuring eight shorts finalists that include multiple directors and casts. The theme for 2024 is “Silver Linings: a consoling or hopeful prospect.” We received 495 script submissions for this year’s festival, and the finalists were selected from submissions from around the globe.

Our volunteer readers and judges are local Seattle-area theatre lovers and playwrights. To keep the process as fair as possible, our readers were given blind copies of script submissions for judging. Our annual playwriting festival provides an opportunity for playwrights to have their works brought to life on stage, as well as gain recognition and potential awards. Some past winners have later been developed into full-length award-winning plays! After the closing performance, we will announce the playwright winners for: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Judges’ Awards and Overall Audience Favorite.

Content Warning: This production contains some adult themes and is best suited for ages teen+.

Run Time: Approximately 2 hours, plus a 15-minute intermission