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Midwest Dramatists Conference

Our newest featured list comes from playwright Greg Lam, who attended the Midwest Dramatists Festival in Iolanthe, KS last September: "I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I met a lot of great playwrights and sat in on dozens of interesting ten-minute play readings with insightful discussions. It’s impossible to see more than half of the 48 or so plays presented at the conference, but I did my best. Here are my favorites of the ones I managed to see. They're playfully heartbreaking, infuriatingly stunning, effortlessly hilarious, intensely shocking, harrowingly hopeful, bleakly intriguing, and manically endearing." Enjoy!

The Thought Doesn't Count by Emily Hageman
PARTNER OF — by Rachael Carnes
Oh, No! I Flew Too Close to the Sun! by Rand Higbee
The Drumhellers of Bloody Dick Creek by William Triplett
I'll Tell You at Sunrise by Franky Gonzalez
M and The Water Man by Hannah Vaughn
Last Dance with MJ by Lindsay Partain

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Franky Gonzalez recommended The Hostile, The Holy and The Holding by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
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Franky Gonzalez recommended Between Them Ears by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
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The NPX Index

  • Scripts by writers who live in the Midwestern United States: 3455
  • Scripts by writers who live outside the United States: 861