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Friday January 24, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm CST
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Doors will open 30 minutes prior to curtain.

Join us for readings of this year's Region 5 winners of the Gary Garrison 10-Minute Play Award: 
















Guest Artists
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Emma Busch

Playwrights' Center
Emma is a Twin Cities-based theater artist, dramaturg, and dreamer with an interest in archives, queer time, and place-making through a sociological lens. She recently was a part of TRACES, a site-specific show that performed across downtown Minneapolis. She has also made an artistic... Read More →
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Hannah Joyce

Playwrights' Center
Hannah Joyce is the director of professional resources and education at Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. From 2017 to 2022 she was also the producing artistic director of the William Inge Theater Festival in Kansas. Hannah has developed the new work of some the country’s finest... Read More →
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Miguel Torres Cruz

R8 NPP Chair, CSU Fullerton
Miguel Torres Cruz is an actor, director, producer, and educator. He trained at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA), CSU Bakersfield (BA Theatre Arts), and CSU FULLERTON (MFA in Acting). He is a faculty member at CSU Fullerton, Chair of National Playwriting Program for the Kennedy... Read More →
Festival Leadership
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Cat Gleason

NPP Co-Vice Chair, Truman State University
Cat Gleason teaches acting, directing, and stage movement, as well as theatre history and criticism. An award-winning teacher, she has received the Road Warrior and Innovative Teaching honors from The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival KCACTF5 as well as being honored... Read More →
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Laura Gold

NPP Co-Vice Chair, Peru State College
Laura Gold (she/her) is the Associate Professor of Theatre at Peru State College. Recent Peru Theatre Company directing credits include Orphans, Love Song, Proof, and Everybody. She is especially proud of PTC's annual production The Disco Citizens—30 plays in 60 minutes, or your... Read More →
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Aaron Scully

NPP Chair, U of Central Missouri
Aaron Scully, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Central Missouri. His plays have been produced around the country including Atlanta, Des Moines, Washington D.C., Seattle and Pittsburgh, PA. Most recently a production of his play "The Disappointments" toured... Read More →
Friday January 24, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm CST
Civic Center Stoner Theater 221 Walnut St, Des Moines, IA 50309, USA

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