10-Minute Play Festival 2025

Welcome to the Durango Arts Center’s 15th Annual 10 minute Play Festival! Beginning in January of each year, the Durango Arts Repertory Theater (DART) at the Durango Arts Center (DAC) invites playwrights from around the world to submit original 10-Minute plays. The plays go through a tiered reading process (author names and hometowns are kept anonymous from the judges). The top 10 plays will be given a full production and playwrights will receive a royalty of $100 for a 3 show weekend. Come join us for the merry mayhem!

Our 2025 Plays:

Life & Death & Crap
Directed by Vanessa Frank
Written by Pam Dickler

Two butterflies discuss the meaning of life and death and crap, pretty much in that order.

The Shot Heard ‘Round
Directed by Wendy Ludgewait
Written by: Konrad Rogowski

Chaos ensues when an actress in a really bad play decides to stop the action and ask the audience what needs to be done to resolve the real drama being played out on stage, and thus spare both the cast and the attendees from any further suffering. What could go wrong?

A Book By Any Other Cover
Directed by Wendy Ludgewait
Written by: David MacGregor

Two lonely and unattached work colleagues are perfect for one another…if they can only change one thing about themselves.

Interplanetary Paul’s Divorce Spectacular
Directed by Ashton Root
Written by: Marshall Logan Gibbs

Paul is having trouble processing his divorce on his own, so he gets a little help from his favorite sci-fi movie.

Cataclysm
Directed by John Whitt
Written by: James Kelsey Nelson

A young couple’s relationship comes to an abrupt end at the alleged request of the cat.

The Worst Play Ever!
Directed by Monica DiBiasio
Written by Brian Petti

During a staged reading about two western cliches, two actors try valiantly to execute increasingly insane stage directions being read by the playwright.