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 collaborating with living playwrights on new works. This
collection features the ten short plays that were Official Selections of
the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival - chosen from
hundreds of submissions from around the United States. From the story of
a pair of high school seniors debating whether to destroy an unopened
package from the admissions office of a top-tier college, to a young
woman tracking down her ex after seeing an alarming fowl-related post on
Facebook, to a college student helping her sorority sister plot revenge
on the Tinder date who ghosted her, the plays are funny, smart, and full
of humanity. They can be performed individually or combined into a
dynamic evening of theater, all with robust and challenging roles for
actors in their late-teens and twenties.