Ft Wayne Civic Theatre Presents NE Indiana Playwright Fest, Now thru 6/3

Fort Wayne Civic Theatre has announced the winners of the 3rd Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival:

1st Place: Althea’s Well by Ruth Tyndall Baker
2nd Place: Hands Under The Table by Theron RD Steinke
3rd Place: Spring at the Willowbrook Inn by Douglas C. Evans and Jonathan Van Dyke
Honorable Mention: Status Update by Jonathan Graham

The 3rd Annual Playwright Festival will be held today, June 1 through June 3, 2012 at the Arts United Center (303 E. Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN). The featured play will be Alive and Dead in Indiana, adapted by playwright Doug Long, based on the short stores of Michael Martone. Alive and Dead in Indiana will open on Friday, June 1 at 8pm and will also be performed during the festival on Sunday, June 3 at 2pm (with post-show discussion). Alive and Dead in Indiana will run weekends through June 10. The festival includes a Workshop and Panel Discussion with guest presenters Michael Martone and Doug Long. Martone and Long will also participate in a post-show discussion following the Sunday, June 3 performance of Alive and Dead in Indiana.

The winning play, Althea’s Well will be presented as a fully-staged production during the festival premiering on Saturday, June 2 with a post-show discussion and will run weekends through June 9. The 3-day festival will also include readings with post-discussions of the 2nd & 3rd place winning scripts.

Open to current or former residents of Indiana this year (and to those in a 90-mile radius of Fort Wayne), scripts were submitted by 15 playwrights from Auburn, Fort Wayne, Tipton, Richmond, Upland and Indianapolis, IN and from St. Louis, MO, Bryan, OH and Boca Raton, FL. These 15 scripts were adjudicated by a committee of local and National Theatre professionals who determined the winners.

This year’s festival is sponsored by 80/20, Inc. Foundation and is made possible in part by a Neighborhood Grant from Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne and a grant from The Auer Foundation. In addition, Civic Theatre was recently awarded a grant from the Dramatist Guild Fund in support of the 2012 program. The festival was established to help nurture the creative writing talents of playwrights in Indiana.

Civic season sponsors include Lincoln Financial Group, Sweetwater Sound and Indiana’s NewsCenter. Civic Theatre is an Arts United funded member group and receives support from the Foellinger Foundation, English, Bonter Mitchell Foundation, Fort Wayne Community Foundation, Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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