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.

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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.