Pittsfield, MA’s award-winning Barrington Stage Company (BSC) has announced casting for its 10-minute plays for the 10th Annual 10x10 New Play Festival.

Forming part of the 2021 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, the plays will be filmed on the Boyd-Quinson mainstage with no live audience and will stream from 11-14 & 18-21 March.

This year’s programme consists of the following plays: Protecting the Innocent by Brent Askari, Finding Help by Marj O’Neill-Butler, Don’t Call Me Cupid by Jonathan Cook, People Will Talk by Scott Mullen, Lizzie Borden Gets Engaged by Ellen Abrams, Speed Play by Alex Dremann, Blind Larks by Christine Foster, A Dateless Bargain with Engrossing Death by John Minigan, Happy Birthday Leonard by Walter Thinnes, and On The Rocks by Jessica Provenz.

The cast features 10x10 festival veterans: Doug Harris, Maya Loren Jackson, Matt Neely, Keri Safran, Peggy Pharr Wilson and Robert Zukerman.

Directors for this year’s 10X10 New Play Festival are BSC Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Emmy-nominated director Matthew Penn, with costume by Azalea Fairley, set design by Joseph Martin, lighting by Scott Pinkney and sound by Alex Sovronsky.

Artistic Director Julianne Boyd said: “Who knew when we started our 10x10 New Play Festival ten years ago that it would become one of our most popular events of the year? We started with two weeks of performances and as of last year, we ran our 10x10 Plays for one month in the middle of the winter. This year, we have the added challenge of filming the plays in an empty theatre and streaming them into our patrons’ homes. While this is not the challenge we were looking for, we hope to reach an even larger audience than ever before!”

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