2010 Annual
10-Minute Play Festival
WINNERS

Civil Disobedience

Bara Swain – New York, NY
How far would you go to make your son listen to you? Goldalee Schneider may be forced to resort to a sit-in strike in the Holiday Inn Express NYC.

Almost There

Philip Kaplan – Brooklyn, NY
Stuart has a vivid virtual life, visiting a baptism, a bachelor party and a funeral without leaving the lobby. Cynthia wants to sit in peace to wait for her date. Whose lobby is it, anyway?

If Only

David Krostal – Bloomington, IL
When a down-on-his-luck man takes refuge from the rain, he offers a game or two of Go Fish and a gift of a snow globe to the desk clerk, someone he thinks he knows from long ago.

Driving Through the Fog

Elen Naskova – Seattle, WA
Low-rent Motel 90 isn't exactly where Helen sees herself hanging out. But she's stuck there when heavy fog sets in, negotiating with a desk clerk whose life is even foggier than hers.

Ursula Fernhouse Checks Out

Michael R. McGuire – New London, CT
Night clerk Rita isn’t sure what to make of an unlikely hit man with a fear of heights gunning for a guest who's been there since 1962. But, hey, at least it’s different.

Not in My Lobby, You Don’t

Corey Case – Clinton, IL
An uptight clerk has issues with a member of a punk-rock group trying to check out. Wild party, naked groupies, sofa in the pool... That’s rock and roll, baby!

Coffee and a Cruller

Rachel Stanford – Mackinaw, IL
Mmmm... Free breakfast at a small-town motel. It's worth getting up at 4 a.m. for two gossipy ladies trying to be helpful to anybody crazy enough to actually pay for their own doughnut.

Going Nowhere

R.D. Wakeman – California
A jaded front desk clerk and a new maid ponder moving up from their jobs, while on the other side of the lobby, a couple tries to decide whether their affair is going anywhere.