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College Playwrights Festival Readings

February 19th at 2:00 PM

Barter's Smith Theatre

Join us for readings of the plays selected for 2023's College Playwrights Festival.

Barter’s College Play Festival (CPF) is a 10-Minute Play Festival designed to give Appalachian undergraduate college students a professional experience.  Selected student playwrights will have the opportunity to develop their play with professional Barter artists as well as attend workshops and meet professional playwrights.

Selected Plays:

The Sermon by Tarrin Chambers, East TN State University

What I’d Do Without You by Barbara Kincaid, Oglethorpe University

Drainer by Emma McGee, Western Kentucky University

Killing Gilderoy by Cameron Michles, Wake Forest University

Prior Engagement by Wyn Alyse Thomas, University of Georgia

A Murder Gently by Isaac Nelson, Western Kentucky University

Barter Theatre is partially funded by:

This project was supported [in part] by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 

A special thanks to the Town of Abingdon, Washington County, and the Virginia Tourism Corporation for their support.

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