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It’s 2012, and as we head into a new year, and a new OOB Festival, the Samuel French staff has decided to make some fresh, exciting adjustments for this year’s competition:

• The 2012 Off Off Broadway Festival will take place in the Fall instead of the summer.
• Because of the later date of the Festival, the submissions period will be moved back.  Submissions should be open beginning sometime in early to mid February.

We made these decision with both our playwrights’ and producers’ best interest in mind. As a large component of our Festival is giving our participants industry exposure, we want to hold our Festival at a time of year when most of NYC’s theatre community is in town and eager to see new work.  The beginning of the new theatre season seems like the perfect time of year!

In addition, we hope to capitalize on this larger industry presence by providing a series of Festival-related events and workshop throughout the week, both for participants and for fans of New York’s oldest, continuous play Festival!

Keep checking back for more information on dates, venue, and our application!

We look forward to reading your plays.

-The 2012 OOB Team.

Dear Participants –

I want to extend my thanks and appreciation to all of the playwrights and producing companies involved in this year’s Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.  Your enthusiasm and passion for theatre was felt by all members of our staff.  Because of your talent and involvement, we continue our reputation as one of the world’s premiere short play Festivals.

Special mention must go out to the directors, actors and producing companies for their unflinching commitment to bringing these bold new works to our stage.  The commitment to your playwright combined with your high level of professionalism, created an inspiring week of theatre, and one that we hope you are as proud to present as we were.

This year the task was especially difficult to come to our final selections for the publication.  From the preliminary rounds with our industry judges to the Sunday Finals, each step of narrowing down the diverse list of plays was a challenging mission.  We congratulate all of the Final Forty playwrights and look forward to their future projects.  Ultimately, the following plays were chosen for publication and licensing agreements:

• Bedfellows by Adam Peltzman
• The Truth About Christmas by Daniel Pearle
• Mountain Song by Josh Beerman
• Pluck & Tenacity by Daniella Shoshan
• My Name Is Yin by Tom Swift
• Hanksylvania by Travis Helwig

Finally, we are always looking for feedback, suggestions or ideas for the Festival.  It is vitally important to provide playwrights and producing companies the best environment possible, allowing both much deserved exposure and much desired exploration.

Thank you again for your involvement.

Sincerely,

Kenneth Dingledine

Festival Coordinator

Samuel French, Inc.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

After an incredible day of theatre, our Festival Staff has finally come to pick our six plays, to be published and licensed by Samuel French, Inc.:

• Bedfellows by Adam Peltzman

• The Truth About Christmas by Daniel Pearle

• Mountain Song by Josh Beerman

• Pluck & Tenacity by Daniella Shoshan

• My Name Is Yin by Tom Swift

• Hanksylvania by Travis Helwig

Our marathon day, today featured 14 short plays!  The first half, our matinee sessions, contained companies and writers as far away as Michigan, L.A. San Francisco, and even Alaska!  The afternoons judges-Alexis Williams of Bret Adams, Playwright Lloyd Suh, and Katherine Kovner of Playwright’s Realm–selected a musical and a play about an artistic bear to advance:

• My Name is Yin by Tom Swift
• Taking the Plunge by Greg Edwards and Amanda Louise Miller.

Tonight’s judges–playwright Kia Corthron, agent Thomas Pearson of ICM, and Kevin Cochran of the Grove Theatre Center near L.A.–saw everything from a western to a musical!   Seven plays took the stage, but ultimately two will be moving on to Sunday:

• Bedfellows by Adam Peltzman
• The Truth About Christmas by Daniel Pearle