“ShortLived” SF Theater Battle

A Three-Month Competition of SF’s Best New Short Original Plays

Welcome to ShortLived, the largest audience-judged theater competition in the nation. Over the course of seven weeks, 30 different playwrights will present their short theater productions with the audience deciding who wins and moves on the the final round.

And the stakes are big – the winning playwright gets $5,000 and month long run at PianoFight free of charge.

Week 2 Lineup:

The Murder Hotel – by Classy Pants
A girl walks into a murder hotel — will she get murdered?

This is Why We Broke Up – by Ashley Cowan, produced by SF Theater Pub
Two late night booty callers take a trip down memory lane to answer the question: should we really do this?

Exchange – by Yard Sale
The evil mastermind Dickard Taint covets the world’s last donut in an apocalyptic future.

Birthday Girl – by Jake Arky
An adopted daughter finds out what her parents really have in store for her

Wilted Holly – Bridget Dutta Portman
Catherine tells Henry the VII to go fuck a horse

My Fellow Americans – by Naked Empire Bouffon
Two clowns celebrate the American Dream in all its capitalist, entitled, manifest destiny glory

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