History of the Playwriting Festival:
It was set up in order to expose local audiences to previously unperformed works of scriptwriters from all over the world.  Plays were solicited through the LCRT's website and various playwriting websites.  Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Festival Coordinator, Linda Altman, the quantity and quality of the plays submitted this year far exceeded our expectations.
 
For our first Playing By the Lake Scriptwriting Festival in 2002, LCRT received twenty entries from around the U.S.  The 2004 Playwriting Festival produced 45 plays, submitted from all over the world.  This year's 2006 Playwriting Festival brought in 105 play submissions, including several from Canada and one from France!
 
The finalists were performed in a Reader's Theater format in early July. Reader's Theater, or staged reading, as it is sometimes called, is a specialized form of presentation.  It has been compared to old-time radio drama — a collaboration between the oral presentation of the actors and the imagination of the audiences.  Sets, props, costumes, and movement on state are minimal.  The actors do not memorize their lines.
 

 

2006 Festival Finalists
Legerdemain   ·   by Michael E. Wolfson   ·   directed by Bert Hutt
Some Remote and Distant Place   ·   by William Baer   ·   directed by Claudia Listman
The Last Stage East   ·   by David Hall   ·   directed by Richard Altman
The Thing With the Tree   ·   by Vicki Riba Koestler   ·   directed by Taira St. John
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2002 Festival Finalists		2004 Festival Finalists
The Choice · by Valerie Stocking		Artificial Intelligence · by Rob Frankel
Money Matters · by Carole Brendlinger		After Two · by Joseph Reed Hayes
Falling Star · by Ginny Foster		Treading Backward thru Quicksand ·          by Sandra Marie Vago
Wilde in Leadville · by Jewel Seehaus-Fisher		The Half World · by Joan Golden
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indicates Festival Winner    ·    shows Runner-up
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The Choice

Artificial Intelligence