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Lake Macquarie One Act Play Festival

The Lake Macquarie One Act Play Festival returns in 2025.

The Lake Macquarie One Act Play Festival returns to Warners Bay Theatre on Saturday 5 April 2025.

The Lake Macquarie One Act Play Festival is a theatre competition showcasing short, sharp and exhilarating one-act plays from Lake Macquarie and beyond.

The Festival aims to bring together local, state and national playwrights and performers to develop and strengthen the skills and experience of performing artists within Lake Macquarie.

Featuring plays that explore our society through story and performance, the Festival will bring the best of established and amateur theatre to the Lake Macquarie stage.

Prizes

The One Act Play Festival is held in a competition format, with a total prize pool of $1900 awarded to the following categories:

Winner Outstanding Play performance - $500
Runner Up Outstanding Play performance - $300
Winner Outstanding Actor - $500
Runner Up Outstanding Actor - $300
Winner Youth Actor Encouragement - $300

Plays will be performed in front of a live audience and entries will be judged by the judging panel in accordance with the judging criteria. Winners be announced at the completion of session 2 of the Festival on Saturday 5 April 2025.

Call for entries

Entries are now open for all to apply. Applications are encouraged from established and amateur artists, including independent theatre artists, writers, directors, school, TAFE or University students and theatre groups both locally and nationally.

It’s free to enter, so get your act together and submit your play now!

How to enter

Submission of plays will be open from 8 October 2024 to 13 November 2024 inclusive.
The entry into the festival is free. All costs associated with the performance – costumes, licences, props are the responsibility of the performers, group, school, or theatre company (cast and crew).
Entries will be accepted only if submitted online using the official entry form.
All submissions are to be received online, using the Smarty Grants application form.
A copy of the script (single-sided) must be uploaded prior to submission of the entry form. All pages are to be numbered.
No entries will be accepted if delivered by hand, email or post. Entrants requiring support to complete the entry form must contact Council staff by phone or email [email protected] by 12noon AEST, 13 November 2024.
Extension of the closing date or acceptance of late entries for the One Act Play Festival will be only at the Event sponsors discretion.
Refer to the One Act Play Festival Terms and Conditions(PDF, 479KB) for further details.