The Geneva Theatre Guild is excited to continue on with its 27th Annual Playwrights' Play Readings event! The performances will be April 25-27, 2025 at several venues around Geneva. 

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GTG aims to bring ALL kinds of theatre to the Geneva area in the Finger Lakes Region of New York - including new, original works! Each year, we put out an "open call" for amateur playwrights to submit their unpublished works of short plays - all plays submitted should be timed at no more than 30 minutes (approximately 25-28 pages). The event has gained an international reputation and we have to cap our submissions at 150 short plays on a first-come-first-serve submission basis! When that cap is reached, the rigorous selection process of our volunteer readers and Play Selection Committee begins. During this review process, playwrights' names are removed from the scripts to avoid any bias and each script is read by at least 3 volunteer readers. When all scripts have been reviewed the required amount of times, 5 to 6 of the highest-rated entries are performed in a series of script-in-hand staged readings by local actors at venues all over the Geneva area! This year, the Guild plans to present the readings live and in-person at local venues, scheduled for April 25, 26 & 27, 2025.

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In this grass-roots theatre project, you can be a featured playwright, one of our volunteer readers, an actor, a director, or part of our beloved audience - a true testament to the community theatre process!

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Please email info@genevatheatreguild.org with questions

or if you are interested in being one of our volunteer readers! 

*Please note that if you submitted a play for review,

you are ineligible to be a volunteer reader, for the sake of fairness.