OC-centric New Play Festival

OC-centric New Play Festival Orange County's up coming and veteran playwrights come together to bring their written work to life in OC-Centric New Play Festival!

Now in its fifth year, OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival is a collaboration involving actors and directors from the various Southern California theatre scenes and dramatists who call Orange County home. Fundamentally, the festival celebrates new works for the theatre and the voices of OC playwrights. It has become a destination event for the local theatre scene, with favorable publicit

y and reviews from the OC WEEKLY, Examiner.com and other media outlets. Chapman University (and its College of Performing Arts and Theatre Department) host OC-centric annually. OC-centric is not part of the university’s annual theatre season; it is a summer festival that is marketed and promoted to the greater Southern California community. Since the festival’s inception, we have produced new work from a variety of up-and-coming playwrights who have been staged around the country, including Erica Bennett, Megan Breen, Julie Tosh, Abbe Levine, Joni Ravenna, John Lane, Andrea Sloan Pink and Eric Eberwein, Each year, we support, affirm and introduce the works of local playwrights through full productions.

Here's an update on the OC-centric New Play Festival.
12/14/2024

Here's an update on the OC-centric New Play Festival.

OC-centric is proud to announce its five 2024 playwright finalists.
03/29/2024

OC-centric is proud to announce its five 2024 playwright finalists.

The OC-centric New Play Festival will be taking a hiatus in 2024. The producers have made this decision due to several d...
03/23/2024

The OC-centric New Play Festival will be taking a hiatus in 2024. The producers have made this decision due to several different factors. OC-centric intends to return to the local theatre scene in 2025, perhaps in a different context.

We will announce the 5 full-length play finalists for 2024 next week. We may elect to produce one of these plays in 2025.

Last call! Last call! 1/8 deadline. See our FB page (pinned post) for full submission details.
01/07/2024

Last call! Last call! 1/8 deadline. See our FB page (pinned post) for full submission details.

01/01/2024

The final countdown! Single digits! You have 7 more days to submit a full-length play to OC-centric! Our deadline is 1/8 at midnight! If you have a full-length play and you live in or hail from Orange County, CA, send us your script. No submission fee, the playwright gets paid and the play gets a full production. See our previous post (at our page) for all the submission details.

OC playwrights - submit your scripts! The submission window is open for our 2024 festival! Details below. 1/8/24 deadlin...
12/13/2023

OC playwrights - submit your scripts! The submission window is open for our 2024 festival! Details below. 1/8/24 deadline.

They say theatre is fleeting, but theatregoers know that theatre artists can create memories that are indelible, that ca...
08/20/2023

They say theatre is fleeting, but theatregoers know that theatre artists can create memories that are indelible, that can last for a lifetime. As we look back on the 12th annual OC-centric New Play Festival and our production of The Mortician's Wife, we want to thank all of the amazing theatre artists who had a hand in helping us create these memories and this year's festival, onstage and backstage. And so we thank ... Sokratis Alafouzos, Janelle Asti, Allan F. Brooks, Ruthe Brunner, Sean Burgos, Alexis Cisneros, Dayne Donnell, Eric Eberwein, Oscar Garcia, Familia Gineri, Shalom Gineri, Alexander Grace, Alyssa Helstern, Judy Jones, Matthew Rodriguez Kleeburg, Jeff Larson, Andrew Laughery, Jenna Lavin, Nora Lavin, Christopher Metzger, Orlando Montes, Genevieve O’Gilvy, Giulio Ongaro, Callie Prendiville, Branden Sandoval, Katherine Sharpless, Bianca Nicasio Singer, Michael Spolsky, Kaelin Tester, Mathew Tyrrell, Tamiko Washington, Peter Westenhofer, and Caleb Wildman.

Join us for the 13th annual OC-centric New Play Festival in August 2024! Watch this page, our Instagram (), and SoCal social media theatre groups for our call for plays (fall 2023) and our audition notices (winter 2024).

Today we wrap up our designer spotlight series with a look at Caleb Wildman and his work on The Mortician's Wife! Three ...
08/18/2023

Today we wrap up our designer spotlight series with a look at Caleb Wildman and his work on The Mortician's Wife! Three more shows: Fri-Sat at 8pm and Sat at 2pm. Tix at ocnewplays.com.

What's onstage Thursday night in OC? The Mortician's Wife! We begin week 2 of our run tonight at 8:00 at Chapman Univers...
08/17/2023

What's onstage Thursday night in OC? The Mortician's Wife! We begin week 2 of our run tonight at 8:00 at Chapman University, in the O.L. Halsell Studio Theatre in Moulton Hall. Featuring Bianca Nicasio Singer, Andrew Laughery, Matthew Rodriguez Kleeburg, Judy Jones, Shalom Gineri and Nora Lavin. Written by Callie Prendiville and directed by Sokratis Alafouzos. Week 2 shows: August 17-19 at 8pm (Th-Sat) + Sat, Aug. 19 matinee at 2pm. Tix at ocnewplays.com or morticianswife.brownpapertickets.com.

Today we spotlight our costume designer, Christopher Metzger! See his work tonight, Fri and Sat at Chapman University in...
08/17/2023

Today we spotlight our costume designer, Christopher Metzger! See his work tonight, Fri and Sat at Chapman University in The Mortician's Wife! Tix at ocnewplays.com.

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