10-Minute Play Festival

Welcome to the Durango Arts Center’s 16th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival! Our 2026 season theme — “The State We Are In” — celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States and the 150th anniversary of Colorado. To complement this theme, we sought out submissions featuring Colorado or U.S.-based subject matter. We received 200 submissions, and our readers have narrowed it down to eight plays to be directed and performed by Durango’s amazing talent. Don’t miss these original, never-before-seen plays! Directed by and starring Durango’s finest!

• Suspended (by William Smith)
• The Diary Of Maria (by Dave Huber)
• Don’t Shoot Your Mother (by Brandon Hicks)
• Rock/Paper/Scissors (by Mark Maroney)
• Murder by Chairlift (by Ken Hauser)
• Letter to the Editor, 1971 (by Brian Cox)
• HELLthcare (by J.Thalia Cunningham, M.D.)
• Cuts (by D.L. Siegel)