Go Play Outside with Linestorm Playwrights: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays to Be Performed Outdoors

LineStorm Playwrights contributed to and curated this anthology of twenty-five short plays designed to be performed outdoors, written by some of the most well-known playwrights creating ten-minute plays today. These compelling pieces can be performed inside, on a traditional stage, but they can also be site-specific works, set in a backyard, on a front porch, in a park, by a street, in a fountain, on a field, by a pool, or under the stars. The collection contains varied scenes and monologues-selections of comedy, farce, satire, musical theater, and drama-perfect for classroom study and for performance by a wide range of actors.

Lolly Ward’s plays include 72 Objects (semifinalist, O’Neill NPC), Gone (Inkwell’s Lerner Fellowship; finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild), Mate (Eric Tucker at the Actors’ Gang; CalTech), Do You Take This Woman? (Smith & Kraus, Best Ten Minute Plays 2019), Black Press in the White House (Smith & Kraus), and The Ethel Party (Silk Road Review). She was a member of the LA-based Playwrights Union before moving to Oregon, where she joined the board of PATA and co-founded LineStorm Playwrights. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University in English and creative writing. Read her work on the New Play Exchange. She is a member of Actors’ Equity, the Dramatists Guild, and SAG-AFTRA. LineStorm Playwrights was established in 2016 as a nonprofit collective of Portland-area dramatists. LineStorm fosters the development of new and diverse works of theater by member playwrights, sharing those works in progress with the general public to encourage dialogue and provide an opportunity to hear community voices. LineStorm is a playwright company in residence at Artists Repertory Theatre.