THE TALES OF CHARLOTTE WILSON Tops Fort Wayne Civic Theatre's 2016 Playwright Festival

Fort Wayne Civic Theatre has announced the winners of the 7th Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival:

1st Place Winner - The Tales of Charlotte Wilson, P.I. by Daniel Hart
2nd Place Winner - The Last Stand by Joseph Collins
3rd Place Winner - Sir Lancelot Jones by Jim Henry

The 7th Annual Playwright Festival will be held on Saturday, March 19 at the Parkview Physician's Group ArtsLab Theatre at 300 E. Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN.The 1st place winning play -- The Tales of Charlotte Wilson, P.I. will premiere on the eve of the festival on Friday, March 18 at 8:00pm. It will be presented as a part of the festival on Saturday, March 19 at 8:00pm followed by a post discussion led by Guest Speaker Douglas Post. Additional performances of this production will be on Sunday, March 20 at 2:00pm, Friday, March 25 at 8:00pm, Saturday March 26 at 2:00pm and at 8:00pm. The Tales of Charlotte Wilson, P.I. will be directed by Phillip H. Colglazier.

The second and third place plays will have stage readings followed by post discussions led by Guest Speaker Douglas Post. Sir Lancelot Jones by Jim Henry will be presented at 10:00 am on Saturday, March 19 -- directed by Steve Sarratore. The Last Stand by Joseph Collins will be presented at 2:00 pm on Saturday, March 19 -- directed by Jay Duffer. Both play readings will be held at the ArtsLab Theatre.

Descriptions of the plays and more information on the festival can be found online at fwcivic.org.

Playwright Douglas Post will be the featured speaker for the 2016 festival leading a Conversation on the Art of Adaptations. A playwright with numerous credits, Post's adaptations include The Wind in the Willows, a musical based on the book by Kenneth Grahame, which has had over 250 productions around the world; God and Country, a rock opera based on the play Antigone by Sophocles, which was produced at Victory Gardens Theater; The Kingdom of Grimm, a musical based on three stories by the Brothers Grimm, which was the winner of the first Cunningham Commission for Youth Theatre; and The Prizefighter and the Playwright, a play based on the book by Jay Tunney, which he is currently working on. Post will speak at the festival workshop on Saturday, March 19 at 5:30pm at the ArtsLab Theatre, followed by the annual festival reception.

Open to current or former residents of Indiana and to those in a 90-mile radius of Fort Wayne, scripts were submitted by 23 playwrights from throughout Indiana and from Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Illinois and Ohio. These scripts were adjudicated by a committee of local and national theatre professionals who determined the winners.
The festival is sponsored by an Anonymous Donor. Fort Wayne Civic Theatre is a funded member of Arts United and receives support from Lincoln Financial Group, the Auer Foundation, Foellinger Foundation, English Bonter, Mitchell Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival was established to help nurture the creative writing talents of Indiana playwrights. The $40 festival packages includes all events and are available through the ArtsTix Box Office at (260) 424-5220. Tickets for individual events are available and can be purchased by phone on online at fwcivic.org

Auditions for all three festival plays will be on Sunday, January 31 starting at 7:00 pm at the Arts United Center - 303 E. Main Street, Downtown Fort Wayne. The audition notice is also available on line at fwcivic.org.

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