The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival identifies and supports
new plays that feature robust roles for college-aged actors, while
providing a laboratory to train students in the skills and ethics
inherent to work with living playwrights on new works. This collection
features the five short plays that were Official Selections of the 2021
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival--all written by playwrights
based in Missouri (the home state of both the festival and its Pulitzer
Prize-winning namesake). From the story of a twenty-something couple
doing battle with their new Home Owners Association to a group of high
school students coping with the death of a classmate to an action figure
trying to save another toy from the tyranny of its child, the plays are
funny, touching, and smart. They can be performed individually or make a
wonderful evening of theater, all with robust and challenging roles for
actors in their teens and twenties.