PORT TOWNSEND — A ceremony honoring the winning playwrights of the 2010 One-Act Play Competition will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St.
The ceremony, hosted by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, will honor Jerry Chawes, Judith Glass Collins, Deborah Daline, Art Reitsch, David H. Schroeder and Richard Weston.
Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval will make presentations to the six writers, all of whose works will be presented at the Key City Public Theatre’s 15th annual Playwrights’ Festival.
Short excerpts from selected plays will be performed at the ceremony, providing a sneak preview of the festival, which opens Feb. 10.
Friday’s event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served in the playhouse lobby at an informal reception for the playwrights following the presentations.
The Playwrights’ Festival next month will include the six winning one-act plays; workshop productions of three developing full-length plays by Linda Dowdell, Jeni Mahoney and Andrea Stolowitz; and the arts commission’s annual play-writing workshops, with visiting playwright Lee Blessing.
Blessing also will kick off the festival with a reading of his one-person play “Chesapeake” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
For more information on the entire festival, visit www.keycitypublictheatre.org or phone the Key City office at 360-379-0195.
