ROOTED IN TRADITION
CREATING FRESH WORKS
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ROOTED IN TRADITION
CREATING FRESH WORKS
ROOTED IN TRADITION
CREATING FRESH WORKS
ROOTED IN TRADITION
CREATING FRESH WORKS
WALTER THINNES is an emerging playwright whose thirty plus plays have received more than 125 productions, readings, or awards in 26 states, and around the world, including The Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference, and several Off-Off-Off-Broadway Theaters. He is currently located in Central Florida and you can find some of his scripts at www.newplayexchange.org.
He is the recipient of the Colonial Players’ Promising Playwright Award, Annapolis, MD; Theatre Oxford L.W. Thomas Award, Oxford MS; Appalachian New Play Festival Judge’s Choice Award, Athens, OH; and winner of the Centre-Stage New Play Festival in Greenville, SC.
A new, as yet Untitled Work will be featured in an online presentation by THE PULP STAGE in Portland, Oregon on the evening of April 1, 2024. The evening is called the PULP FACTOR SHOWCASE and will feature readings of three new plays writtten in just three weeks time. I am one of three writers currently crafting the new plays with the Artistic Director of the company, John Marks. You can learn more about the company at www.pulpstage.org. Use your browser to go to their YouTube page where live actors will do a reading of the scripts at 4/1/24 at 9:00 PM.
The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, North Carolina has selected my full length script BLOODLETTING IN THESE HILLS as one of three plays to receive a staged reading as part of their Appalachian Playwriting Festival, September 20-22, 2024. I am absolutely thrilled and honored to be selected and look forward to attending the Festival. Information on the three winning playwrights have been posted to their website at: https://parkwayplayhouse.com/appalachian-playwriting-festival/ As more details become available, I will post them here. Exciting!
THEATER MAKERS LABS of Middletown CT produced my short play HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD as part of their Crappy Valentines Festival on February 17, 2024 at Keeney Memorial Cultural Center in Wethersfield, CT.
The Rover Dramawerks theatre in Plano, TX selected my short play "myspacefacebook.com" as a semi-finalist for their 2024 comedy performance.
My short play HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the Off Broad Street Short Play Festival in Augusta GA.
I am working on a brand new ten-minute play being developed with and specifically for The Pulp Stage in Portland Oregon. They will have a showcase for works by 3 writers on Monday evening, April 1 at 9:00 PM. The free live reading caan be reached by going to
where the actors will perform a reading on the company's YouTube page.
Their mission is: To inspire and empower the creation of theatre by generating exciting, easy-to-stage plays. They focus on oral storytelling traditions, using primarily dialogue to achieve character goals. They feature stories of science fiction, horror and suspense. I and two other writers are learning techniques from their artistic director to use in our writing. These works will be featured in the April 1 presentation.
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My short play HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD has received quite a number of productions recently.
REBOUND PRODUCTIONS performed the play as a part of their New Writing Showcase on July 26, 2023 featuring Clarisse Encontre and Christina Raise at the HEN & CHICKENS THEATRE, LONDON, UK .
It was presented in the Seventeenth Annual Ten Minute Play Festival at the ODYSSEY THEATRE in SARASOTA FLORIDA in June 2022. It was directed by Amanda Schlachter and featured Jenny Aldrich Walker and Julee Breehne.
BARRINGTON STAGE in PITTSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS presented a streaming production of it as part of their Tenth Annual 10x10 Festival in March 2021.
It was also selected as a Semi-Finalist in the OFF BROAD STREET SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL in AUGUSTA GA
My recent full length play THE RELUCTANT PROPHET received an excellent staged reading as part of the Talkback Tuesday Series at the Polaris North Theatre Co-operative in NEW YORK, NEW YORK on May 23, 2023. It was both well received and provided valuable feedback that further developed the script. It featured John L. Payne, Meliora Dockery, Francis Parkman, Leslie Lynn Meeker, Jen Nolan and Sophie Larin.
My short play CELEBRITY DIVORCE was performed by the PLAYWRIGHTS ROUND TABLE OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA as part of their LAUNCH Festival in March, 2022. It was directed by Dev Zebra, and featured Russell R. Trahan, Anthony Marando and Kaley Redfield. It was also a finalist in the Short+Sweet Play Festival in the Dubai, United Emirates as well as their Festival in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
My short play 2020 - A PERFECT YEAR FOR MAGICAL THINKING received a streamed production in the Old Library Theatre's 10th Annual One Act Play Festival in FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY on February 2021. It was also performed by STAGE DOOR PRODUCTIONS as part of their 14th Annual One Act Festival in Fredericksburg VA in January 2022. It was selected and recorded by student Lanee Stiver for Senior Directing Credit at JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY in SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS in April 2022.
My short play AT THE DINER WITH DAD (licensed by ART AGE Publications - Senior Theater Resources) was performed in GAINESVILLE FLORIDA in February 2021.
Walter Thinnes, Playwright
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