Michelle Pascua, a for Celebration, was named winner of the 2020 Odyssey Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival, which was first presented to the taste of classical radionovelas.
Easter will win the $500 first prize for his “Single Rider” work, about two single people who meet and join an excursion to Disney World in a tale with an alien twist.
It is one of 8 new and brief works by Florida writers featured at the 15th Theater Odyssey Festival.
Due to the coronavirus, Theatre Odyssey was unable to provide the decided works on stage, so it opted for an audio provision on its online page with a cast of local actors and directors.
Miami Beach Marj O’Neill-Butler won a momentary position and a $ 300 prize for her play “Finding Help,” about an elderly woman and mother arguing about whether the mother deserves to have a caregiver at home or settle into a life assisted.
The winners were selected through a jury composed of Murray Chase, Executive Director of Production at the Venice Theatre; Jeffery Kin, executive director of the Players Center for Performing Arts; and Rick Kerthrough, managing director of the Manatee Performing Arts Center.
Aside from DeLand John J. Kelly and his play “What I Got Nobody Wants”, all others chosen for this year’s festival were from the Sarasota area, including Marvin Albert, Arthur Keyser, Sylvia Reed, Fredric Sirasky and Bernard Yanelli.
For more information, theatreodyssey. org.