Past Productions
We were founded in 2007. You can read general info about us here, and see who is on our Board of Directors here!
This is an article written about us in 2012 in CaryCitizen! Here is a radio interview from 2015 (minutes 20-40)!
These are nice summaries of some of our more recent years: 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012-2013
Shows, Workshops, and other Highlights:
2024-2025 Season
- August 2024 – 2024 NC Audio Play Festival – “Welcome to —–!”
- September 2024 – 2024 Raleigh Fringe Festival – “7 Tales from 7 Voices”
2023-2024 Season
- July 2023 – PlaySlam! The Sketch-tacular 2023
- August 2023 – 2023 NC Audio Play Festival – The Impossible!
- September 2023 – Coming Back for Me by Amy da Luz
2022-2023 Season (returning to live events):
- November 2022 – Fundraiser Event
- February 2023 – It’s Been One Week (2023 Edition)
2021-2022 Season (our virtual season):
- July 2021 – The Spire – an audio series by Larry Bliss
- July 2021 – The Glimmer Within – An Audio Play in Four Parts by Ken Walsh
- August 2021 – Staged Reading of The Unsanctioned Minutes from St. Lucy’s Quaternitarian Church Council’s Last Meeting – by Ken Walsh
- October 2021 – The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest – an audio series by Clint Festa
- February 2022 – It’s Been One Week (2022 Edition)
- May 2022 – 2022 NC Radio Play Festival – SciFi
2020-2021 Season (trying new things):
- September 2020 – 2020 NC 10 by 10 Festival
- October 2020 – 2020 NC Radio Play Festival – Halloween
- February 2021 – It’s Been One Week (1st Year)
- March 2021 – 2021 NC Radio Play Festival – Rebirth
2019-2020 Season (transitional year):
- July 2019 – 2019 NC 10 by 10 Festival
- July 2019 – Town of Cary general grant awarded – $2500
- September 2019 – GPF Radio Hour
- November 2019 – Bar Plays 5.0 at Fortnight Brewery
- January 2020 – Bar Plays Revisited (5.1)
- March 2020 – Bar Plays Revisited (5.2)
- April 2020 – Project Chrysalis 2020
- May 2020 – Bar Plays Revisited (5.3)
- May 2020 – PlaySlam! 2020: A Fifth of PlaySlam!
2018-2019 Season
- July 2018 – NC 10 by 10 Festival 2018 at Carrboro’s The ArtsCenter and The Cary Theatre
- July 2018 – Town of Cary general grant awarded – $2500
- November 2018 – Bar Plays 4.0 at Fortnight Brewery
- January 2019 – Town of Cary Lazy Daze grant awarded – $1000
- February 2019 – Radio Play contest
- March 2019 – LITE Short Play Festival 2019, part of the CPF Independent Producers Series (Jack Berry)
- May 2019 – PlaySlam! 2019: May the Fourth PlaySlam Be With You!
2017 – 2018 Season
- July 2017 – Town of Cary general grant awarded – $2000
- July 2017 – United Arts Council grant awarded – $2100
- August 2017 – Playwriting Workshop for Veterans
- September 2017 – Directing for Writers
- September 2017 SPARKCon Theatre – selection from Chrysalis
- November 2017 – Bar Plays 3
- November 2017 – Dawn’s Early Light, part of the CPF Independent Producers Series
- January 2018 – Writing a 10–Minute Play, 4-week class
- January 2018 – Town of Cary Lazy Daze grant awarded – $1000
- March 2018 – No Exit, part of the CPF Independent Producers Series (Pequod Productions)
- April 2018 – Grandchild of PlaySlam – Photos!
- June 2018 – Master Class Series: The Finish Line
- June 2018 – Volunteer Appreciation soiree
2016 – 2017 Season
- July 2016 – Town of Cary general grant awarded – $2000
- July 2016 – United Arts Council grant awarded – $1500
- November 2016 – Bar Plays 2.0
- January 2017 – Town of Cary Lazy Daze grant awarded – $1000
- February 2017 – Chrysalis Project
- Short scenes from full-length works presented as a staged reading
- One audience favorite emerged and the full-length play will be work-shopped and produced in June 2017
- March 2017 – LITE Short Play Festival 2017, part of the CPF Independent Producers Series (Jack Berry)
- April 2017 – First Live Broadcast of the CPF Radio Hour on April 11th, 2017
- April 2017 – PlaySlam! 2017: Son of PlaySlam
- June 2017 – THE BRIDGE by Alexandra Hubbell, a Project Chrysalis production
- New full-length play that was live-workshopped in its entirety
- June 2017 – Playwriting Basics, class on How to Write a Play
- June 2017 – Volunteer Appreciation soiree
2015 – 2016 Season
- June 2016 – Volunteer Appreciation event at The Cary Theatre
- June 2016 – “Burt and Abby” by Libby Heily Workshop
- June 2016 – “After the Fall” by Marilynn Barner Anslemi
- April 2016 – PlaySlam
- March 2016 – Chakra (The Wheel of Life) – based on the Indian epic Mahabharata
- February 2016 – Town of Cary Lazy Daze grant awarded – $750
- January 2016 – “Introduction to Screenwriting” Workshop hosted by Ian Finley
- November 2015 – Celebration of NC Songwriting’ – Co-production with Kirk Ridge & Friends band
- November 2015 – Fall Writing Workshops
- September 2015 – United Arts Council grant awarded – $1590
- September 2015 – Bar Plays
- July 2015 – Town of Cary general grant awarded – $1650
2014 – 2015 Season
- June 2015 – Jane Austen Drinks the Young Wine
- December 2014 – The Finish Line – Playwriting Workshop hosted by Ian Finley
- Nov: ‘Tar Heel Tales‘ – A full production and world premiere of six original short plays by North Carolinians with live original music written and performed by the Kirk Ridge & Friends band! The first live theatre event in the new ‘The Cary‘ moviehouse! Click here for pictures and movie trailer! (DVD available for purchase!)
- May: ‘Staged Reading of New Works‘ – Featuring eleven local playwrights, across two nights, each evening with different plays! Performed at the Paul Cooper Room at the Cary Arts Center. Click here for pictures! Here is the program for one of the two.
- Feb: ‘Playwriting Workshop with Mark Harvey Levine‘ – In association with the Cary Players production of his works, each participant’s short play is discussed and feedback is given by Mr. Levine, a master of the short play form. Click here for pictures!
- Jan: ‘24 Hour Play Festival‘ at NRACT (North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre) – Six Playwrights! Six Directors! And only 24 hours to create six new plays for 21 actors! Thanks to Kirk Ridge and Friends Band for performing original music during the show! Click here for pictures!
2013:
- Oct: ‘Close Encounters: Tales of Space, Ghosts & Blood!‘ – Staged reading at the Paul Cooper Room in the Cary Arts Center. The show included two ‘plays of the day’ contributed by passers-by at our CPF booth at Cary’s Lazy Daze! Click here and here for pictures!
- Sept: ‘Fracturing’ – Working with the Roving Readers of the Triangle, a reading of the 2010 Off-Broadway play at Carolina Meadows to benefit the Sierra Club.
- August: ‘Threads’ – A summer showcase of short plays in the Marcus Dry Room at the Cary Arts Center. These plays were developed through our playwriting workshop taught by Jesse Lowe at Carolina Preserve, an active adult community, to assist the development of new playwrights in our community.
- Mar: ‘The State I’m In‘ – A collaboration with Owl Tree Theatre, a fully-staged series of plays at the Paul Cooper Room at the Cary Arts Center. Click here for pictures!
- Mar: ‘Spring Forward! Tales of Life, Love, and Rebirth‘ – A staged reading at the Paul Cooper Room of the Cary Arts Center. Click here for pictures!
2011 – 2012 Season
- Nov: ‘Storytelling‘ – A staged reading at the Triangle Wine Company and Cary Arts Center.
- Sept: ‘Pitfalls and Promises’ – Partnered with WinterWorks Productions in presenting this new one act musical play.
- Jun: ‘Summer Evening of Original Plays‘ – Our first fully-staged production on the main stage at the Cary Arts Center! Click here and here for pictures, and here for a video of Bachebaze! Here is the program.
- Jan: ‘Winter Festival of Short Plays’ – A staged reading at the Cary Arts Center. The plays: Gondola Fare by Phil Lewis, Sight by Don Quiett, A Very Bad Western by Laura E. Towne, Inspiration From A Spider by Catherine Thoits, Off the Beaten Path by Nancy Young, The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Merz. Here is the program.
2010 – 2011 Season
- June 2010 – 5th Staged Readings at the Page-Walker House
- December 2010 – 6th Staged Readings at the Page-Walker House
- June 2011 – An Afternoon of 8 Short, Original Plays presented at Bond Park Community Center
- November 2011 – ‘Taking Care of Mimi’ – a staged reading of Marilynn Anselmi’s play at the Cary Arts Center.
2009 – 2010 Season
- June 2009 – 3rd Staged Readings at the Herb Young Community Center
- Here is the program.
- January 2010 – 4th Staged Readings at the Herb Young Community Center
- Here is the program.
2008 – 2009 Season
- June 2008 – First Staged Reading of New Works – at the Herb Young Community Center
- Here is the program
- December 2008 – Holiday Journeys
- 2nd staged readings at the Herb Young Community Center
- Here is the program.
