So.Queer Playwrights Festival at Richmond Triangle Players

Richmond Triangle Players has announced the five finalists in its inaugural So.Queer Playwrights' Festival. The plays and their playwrights are:

· Acute Exposure by Alice Hakvaag

· Red Wave by Ty Autry

· Stonewallin' by Kari Barclay

· Straight Wedding by k. lyons

· Talmadge & Ray by Andy Nagraj & Jonathan Spivey

Each of the finalists will present an excerpt of their work, introduced by them personally, in a collaborative online presentation, available via Video-On-Demand beginning JANUARY 15, 2020 and ending JANUARY 29, 2020. The works can be viewed for free by anyone across the country. Those viewing the works will be will be sent a survey to determine the winner; those votes, in conjunction with an adjudication committee selected by RTP, will determine the final winner of the Festival.

Over the course of the following year, RTP will develop further that winning work, in close collaboration with the chosen playwright, through a series of through a series of private workshop readings and public staged readings, as well as consultations with local artists, mentorship from theatre experts, and the provision of other creative supports. The goal is to give the play a full mainstage production in a future RTP season, possibly as early 2021.