One Act Festival

Spring Directing Class

One Act Festival

May 1st and 2nd at 7pm

Friday May 2nd at 7pm - This night will feature shows with Mild-Adult Themes. Recommended for 13 and up.

Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Directed by Owen Vaughn

A drama with themes of violence and death

With an innocent façade, this satirical allegory takes place in a surreal playhouse, where fiction and reality blur. Written during the high-modernist period (1910s-20s), Millay’s work examines the morality of death, the price of envy, and the corrupting power of greed and war.

Waiting for the End of the World by John Shanahan

Directed by Gabe Jordan

A comedy with mild adult content

Three of the four Horseman of the Apocalypse gather in a park to usher in Armageddon, but Famine is running late and isn't answering his phone. Should the other three kick off the end of the world anyway? What will happen if they do? Or do they need to wait for their fourth member to maintain proper symmetry?

Muddy Death and Strudel by Jason Pizzarello

Directed by Aiden Whitley

A comedy with themes of death and suicide

A gentleman with a terminal illness and an affinity for Shakespeare has hired a hitman to end his life early, and poetically, with a death found in one of the Bard's works. The question is, which death to choose? He can take his pick, as long as it doesn't involve his wife's curtains...

Us in Our Mirrors

Written and Directed by Isabella Quijano

A comedy with mild adult content

This play is about getting comfortable looking at yourself in the bathroom mirror while a drunk woo-girl drops an atomic bomb behind you after a night of vodka red bulls and party darts.

The Job Interview by Don Zolidis

Directed by Josiah Sabrowski-Johnson

A comedy

Interviewing for a new job is never easy. It's especially awful when you're called in to interview alongside your competition. It's even more anxiety-inducing when the job you are interviewing for has been known to demolish the spirits of those who have worked there - at a certain establishment that specializes in the construction of stuffed animals.

Driver's Test by Don Zolidis

Directed by Eliza Dosch and Hailey Westbrook

A comedy with LGBTQ+ themes

No amount of parallel-parking practice can prepare sixteen-year-old Gail for THIS driver's test. Dangerously insane, fun loving DMV tester Margie is feeling the need for speed, is hot to hit the road, is... well, a terrible instructor. Can Gail pass her test even with someone urging her to push the speedometer to its limit and evade the police? Comedy levels go into overdrive as Margie takes Gail on the wildest ride of her life.