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Drama/Comedy. Edited by Jeff Gottesfeld. Written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Ric Averill, Cherie Bennett, James DeVita, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Barry Kornhauser, Mary Hall Surface, Elizabeth Wong and Y York. Cast: 2m., 2w. (if same actors perform all the plays. 30 or more actors if there is a different cast for each play). 10 by 10 meets perfectly the growing demand by presenters and educators for plays that build character. It started with a simple notion: Take ten top playwrights-for-youth and send them on a mission. Write a short play that illustrates an important human value. Honesty. Family. Respect for life. Respect for parents. Truthfulness. Faith. Gratitude. Sanctity. And so forth. Each of these playwrights has risen enthusiastically to the artistic challenge and its profound possibilities. You'll find comedies, dramas and "dramadies." From a girl who steals a cell phone at the school dance and comes face to face with an unexpected higher authority, to the grandmother with a penchant for executing buzzing flies with her swatter, to a couple of young concert-goers waiting to meet their idol, 10 by 10 forms a linked collection of short plays that will delight, astonish, challenge and inspire audiences young and old. Simple staging. Approximate running time: 10 minutes to 120 minutes, depending on the number of plays presented.
PLAYS IN THE COLLECTION
1....Kelso and Case-Tec
2....Wonder on Paper
3....Waiting for Bobo
4....Last Minute
5....Sitting With Bertie
6...."Quick-Draw Grandma"
7....Grown Up Tree
8....Out of Order
9....Fork in the Road
10...Get
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| Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (All Audiences) | | Middle Schools | High Schools | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Stock & Lort | | Comedy | Drama |
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|  | Sandra Fenichel Asher's plays have been produced nationally and abroad; over two dozen have been published, including A Woman Called Truth, In the Garden of the Selfish Giant, and Jesse and Grace: A Best Friends Story, all of which have received the AATE Distinguished Play Award. Sandy is also a recipient of an NEA fellowship grant in playwriting, the New ...More |  | Ric Averill was the artistic director for the Seem-To-Be Players professional children's theatre touring company, Lawrence, Kansas, for many years and currently serves as writer-in-residence and drama program director at the Lawrence Arts Center. His published plays include Reliable Junk; Frankenstein; Robin Hood: The Courtship of Allan A'Dale (with Jeanne Averill); The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; Bird Woman: ...More |  | Cherie Bennett often writes on teen themes. Searching for David's Heart began as a best-selling 1998 novel for Scholastic and has now gone through 10 printings. As an unpublished play, it won many playwriting awards; look for it to be a Disney Channel movie in the near future. A two-time Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices biennial winner, Bennett's other plays ...More |  | James DeVita, a native of Long Island, N.Y., is a writer and actor. He is currently the resident playwright at First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee, Wis. His plays for young people and their families are widely produced around the country. They include: The Christmas Angel; Excavating Mom (Dinosaur!); The Rose of Treason; Zero Tolerance; The Three Musketeers; Bambi—A Life in ...More |  | José Cruz González's plays include The Blue House, Sunsets and Margaritas, The Heart's Desire, Tomás and the Library Lady (which toured nationally in 2008), The Cloud Gatherer, Earth Songs, Waking Up in Lost Hills, September Shoes and Harvest Moon. A collection of his plays, Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism & Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences, ...More |  | Jeff Gottesfeld is a noted writer of fiction (Anne Frank and Me), plays (A Heart Divided), film (Broken Bridges) and television (The Young and the Restless). With his wife and writing partner, Cherie Bennett, Gottesfeld has gained a reputation for honest dialogue and an unflinching willingness to write about difficult issues. He and Bennett live in Los Angeles with their ...More |  | Caleen Sinnette Jennings is professor of theater at American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches acting, voice and speech, acting Shakespeare, playwriting and academic courses in theater. Jennings was a 2007 finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference, and she is a two-time Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding New Play. In 2002, she received the Heidman Award from Actor's Theatre of ...More |  | Barry Kornhauser, playwright-in-residence and director of Family Theater at the National Historic Landmark Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Pa., is the United States nominee for the 2008 ASSITEJ International Award for Artistic Excellence. He has received the AATE Distinguished Play Award, the IRT/Bonderman Playwriting Prize, a TYA/USA International Observership and its Best Plays of the Decade commendation, and fellowships and grants ...More |  | Mary Hall Surface's work has been featured at Seattle Children's Theatre, Dallas Children's Theatre, Arizona's Childsplay, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, as well as ten productions at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. , in every region of the US, as well as in Ireland, France, Peru, Germany, Italy and across Canada. An anthology of five of her plays, Most ...More |  | Elizabeth Wong, playwright, is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed her latest play Dating and Mating in Modern Times at Theatre Emory in Atlanta, Ga and at the 2003 Brave New Works Festival. The Happy Prince, her opera for young audiences with Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center ...More |  | Y York's third-millennium plays include Eggs (People's Light & Theatre Company premiere, 2009); and L.A. Is Burning (New Harmony Project, 2007, Main Street Theater, Houston, 2008 premiere); Getting Near to Baby (2008 People's Light & Theatre Company, Barrymore nomination for Outstanding New Play); River Rat and Cat (2006 ChildsPlay, Arizona premiere); Nothing Is the Same (TCG-Pew Charitable Trust, 2004 Kennedy ...More |
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