For the Festival, five writers will be joined by professional actors and production teams who help bring their vision to life; all eight of the playwrights will participate in events as part of the OPC artist community.

Schedule of Events:

11:00am - The Red Man by JuCoby Johnson

Have you ever been so lonely you could just…? Jacqueline has. That is until her estranged twin brother, Jackie, turns up one night at her shack in the Florida swamp. But Jackie’s brought home more than Jacqueline bargained for. Something is following him—and now it’s after her, too. The Red Man is a Southern Gothic thriller and love story that asks how far we’ll go to escape our past.

3:00pm - Madre de Dios by Marvin González De León

Following years of estrangement, Moisés returns to his mother’s home in the Southern Nevada desert for his sister’s wake. Set against an apocalyptic landscape where supernatural forces loom, old grudges boil to the surface, and secrets are revealed as this family drama catapults into a mythic tale of Biblical proportion.