Apex Theatre Studio presents Red Moon New Works Festival: Ten Minute Plays by student writers

Apex Theatre Studio announces the launch of its inaugural new works festival. The Red Moon New Works Theatre festival will present workshop production and readings by professional playwrights, teaching artists and student writers, May 16^th-18^th at the Black Box theatre at located in the World Golf Village area.

         “After celebrating ten years as North Florida’s training facility for young theatre artists, turning our focus on original work was a logical progression, remarked Ian Mairs, playwright and Managing Director of Apex. “We started with a group of young writers in the fall,” added Mairs “and introduced them to the basics of dramatic structure in a series of workshops held at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts as well as online.”  Students were selected from a submission process for a playwrights unit led by New York playwright and television writer, Jacquelyn Reingold.

         This biannual event will feature a mixture of readings from students and teachers. Workshop productions with staging and a minimum of tech will be presented featuring works by Reingold (Fear-Less) and Mairs (Family, Friends and Neighbors: a year in life of an urban church food pantry).  Student writers will present readings of ten-minute plays developed in the playwrights unit.