Aloha Mai Kākou!
The 2021 PlayFest has been a wild ride! It was little challenging due to the pandemic, but we did it and for that we celebrate! Today marks the official closing of PlayFest 2021, but we will keep the plays up on Patreon for one more week to accommodate those who just purchased tickets. The plays will be removed from Patreon on February 7, 2022 at midnight. So if you havenʻt watched them yet. Nowʻs the time!
We are proud of the wide variety of plays and topics that were presented in the festival this year. From solo pieces to large casts, from 10-minute plays to full-lengths, and with settings from Germany to Hawai‘i and the Philippines, these plays examine big topics like family, war, ethnicity, gender, and art in stories that range from intimate to epic to farcical. The five playwrights represented in this year’s festival worked hard to bring these stories to you in video and written form, and I thank them for the time and effort they’ve put in. Thanks also to the directors, actors, videographers, editors, and everyone who helped to bring these pieces to life! You did a beautiful job.
To be selected for the PlayFest, playwrights submit their work months in advance, out of many submissions, only a few are selected and so all the plays presented this year are winners. Many thanks to Rasa Fournier, and Jason Kanda for helping me with the adjudicating process. Their bios can be read below the PlayFest 2021 results.
(Drum roll)
PlayBuilders of Hawaiʻi Theater Company is pleased to announce the results of PlayFest 2021.
Congratulations to all who participated this year. You are all exceptional writers, directors, and actors.
Mahalo to all for participating.
PLAYFEST 2021 Award Recipients
BEST PLAY
BEST DIRECTOR
AUDIENCE FAVORITE
Most of all, I would like to thank you the audience for attending this yearʻs festival for without an audience, the art is only half finished.
Mahalo nui and A Hui Hou, Until next time
~ Matthew Kelty
The 2021 PlayFest has been a wild ride! It was little challenging due to the pandemic, but we did it and for that we celebrate! Today marks the official closing of PlayFest 2021, but we will keep the plays up on Patreon for one more week to accommodate those who just purchased tickets. The plays will be removed from Patreon on February 7, 2022 at midnight. So if you havenʻt watched them yet. Nowʻs the time!
We are proud of the wide variety of plays and topics that were presented in the festival this year. From solo pieces to large casts, from 10-minute plays to full-lengths, and with settings from Germany to Hawai‘i and the Philippines, these plays examine big topics like family, war, ethnicity, gender, and art in stories that range from intimate to epic to farcical. The five playwrights represented in this year’s festival worked hard to bring these stories to you in video and written form, and I thank them for the time and effort they’ve put in. Thanks also to the directors, actors, videographers, editors, and everyone who helped to bring these pieces to life! You did a beautiful job.
To be selected for the PlayFest, playwrights submit their work months in advance, out of many submissions, only a few are selected and so all the plays presented this year are winners. Many thanks to Rasa Fournier, and Jason Kanda for helping me with the adjudicating process. Their bios can be read below the PlayFest 2021 results.
(Drum roll)
PlayBuilders of Hawaiʻi Theater Company is pleased to announce the results of PlayFest 2021.
Congratulations to all who participated this year. You are all exceptional writers, directors, and actors.
Mahalo to all for participating.
PLAYFEST 2021 Award Recipients
BEST PLAY
- First place: Zarah! by Carol Polcovar
- Runner up: Symphony in Manila by Michael Markrich
BEST DIRECTOR
- First place: Miles Phillips for Zarah!
- Runner up: Jeff Orig for Symphony in Manilia
- Brook Channon for portraying Zorah in Zorah!
- Eugene Schlosser for portraying Dr. Herbert Zipper in Symphony in Manilla
AUDIENCE FAVORITE
- First Place: Zorah! by Carol Polcovar
- Runner up: Symphony in Manilla by Michael Markrich
- Honorable mention: Shades by Edward Picard
Most of all, I would like to thank you the audience for attending this yearʻs festival for without an audience, the art is only half finished.
Mahalo nui and A Hui Hou, Until next time
~ Matthew Kelty
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Bonus!
View PlayBuilders, and our partners, Hawaii Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, and PAʻi Foundations, acclaimed "Open Your Hearts Wide" at no additional cost during the PlayFest! |
PlayFest 2021 Plays & Programs
- Zarah! by Carol Polcovar and directed by Miles Phillips imagines the lead-up to the filming of the Nazi propaganda film Die Grosse Liebe (The Great Love), and the efforts of its star Zarah Leander to subvert the film’s intentions.
- Jane County, Man Enough to be a Woman, by Carol Polcovar and directed by Claire Fallon, is a monologue inspired by the musician Jayne County, a transgender glam and punk musician who transitioned in the middle of her career.
- Symphony in Manila by Michael Markrich and directed by Jeff Orig, takes another true story as its foundation — a concert of Beethoven’s Eroica by the Manila Symphony Orchestra in the aftermath of World War II, conducted by a Jewish survivor of Dachau and Buchenwald.
- Shades by Edward Picard. Read by Terri Madden. Tells the story of a Louisiana family in a dilapidated mansion under the strict rule of the family’s patriarch. Their isolation, the arrival of a distant family member, and voodoo lead to despair and, finally, redemption.
Read the Following New PlayFest Plays for Free Here.
The Supernatural Intervention of Callow Burrows Twins,
by Kimberlee Stone.
A cleaver gender-bending, Noel Cowadesque tale of feuding twins, departed parents and the mysteriously powerful psychic who brings them all together.
- Joe Garland,
by Charles Kaaiai.
