1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Hawthorne, by Adam Pike

After the sudden and mysterious death of his mother, Jacob is forced to live with his estranged Grandma and her weird troupe of friends at ‘The Hawthorns’, a very super retirement home.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Greece/Richard: Sean Ballantyne
Wendy: Hannah Ehman
Mary: Julie Sheppard
Thomas: Andy Camp
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1st Scene Reading: Wild Turkey, by Jay Fjestad

When an eleven-year-old girl escapes the toxicity of her mother’s household, she and her alcoholic father are taken in by a local rancher with secrets of his own. Hidden away in the hills of West Texas, she finds the childhood she never had, he trusts to be the father he never was, and the rancher discovers a path out of his own darkness.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Tito: Sean Ballantyne
Nelly: Hannah Ehman
Wyatt: Shawn Devlin
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WINNING Short Script Reading: The Pizza Paradox, by John McCloskey

“The Pizza Paradox” is a short dramedy. It runs about 15 minutes.

FELIX GRANT is a frustrated man who longs for greatness. He thinks that he has a brilliant idea, but it all may be illusion.

MARTA SEMPLE is his friend who acts as the voice of rationality, guarding against Felix’s proclivity to daydream.

Setting: The apartment of Felix Grant in a small Indiana city.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Felix: Allan Michael Brunet
Marta: Kyana Teresa