MN Shorts will be taking submissions for 1-minute plays starting Feb. 1

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Your donations will be used to fund the Best of the Fest award -- giving $100 each night to the best short play in the festival. Donate any amount and help support local theatre and ORIGINAL plays.

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The Minnesota Shorts Play Festival will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7 and 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8 at Mankato West High School Theater, 1351 S. Riverfront Drive, Mankato.

Scripts are limited to playwrights in the Midwest states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas.

All 1-minute plays should be set in a laundromat, a laundry room or deal with dirty laundry. Keep identifying information to the title page of your submission (name, address, phone contact and email address). Our entries are sent to readers blind so please don't put indentifying information on any other page of your script.

Scripts should be 2 pages or less. Please don't shrink text to fit the limit. We aim for a 1-2 minute presentation of the script. Scripts are accepted in a pdf format. Simply email to mnshorts@yahoo.com.

Plays can be new or previously produced. Any topic goes. Content note: We perform these plays to a community audience
age 10 and up so no nudity or excessive use of vulgar language.

If you have any questions, just call Greg, our coordinator at 507-420-1881, or email at mnshorts@yahoo.com. The deadline to submit is midnight, Tuesday, Feb. 28th. Writers may submit TWO scripts.

Four to five 1-minute plays will be chosen to be performed this fall.

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Our Mission
The goal of Minnesota Shorts is to bring short play festivals to Minnesota and make theater accessible to a wider audience. All plays are 10 minutes or less.

If you have any questions regarding the festival send it to:

mnshorts@yahoo.com

If Questions, call:

  Daytime phone: 507-934-8133

Evening Phone: 507-420-1881