Some of the finalists of last year's THINK FAST competition sit with Mark Spina to give us their take on the pros and cons of these programs.

Credits:

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

References:

THE PANELISTS:

Teddy Durgin 

https://www.facebook.com/teddy.durgin  

Michael Towers  

https://www.facebook.com/michael.towers.395/

Curt Strickland

https://pwcenter.org/profile/curt-strickland

https://curtsview.com/

Helen Chang Mao

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helencmao

Cindy Samson Braff

https://www.facebook.com/cindi.sansonebraff

OTHER PLAY COMPETITIONS:

Short and Sweet Play Festival

https://shortandsweet.org/

New City Players

https://newcityplayers.org/lab

Rated S Sketch Comedy

https://www.stagecoachtc.com/rated-s-sketch-comedy/

Secret Theatre

https://secrettheatre.com/

Play Submission Helper

https://playsubmissionshelper.com/

New York City Playwrights

https://www.nycplaywrights.org/

Think Fast Festival

https://www.thetheaterproject.org/think-fast-short-play-competition

Spark Theatre

https://emergingartiststheatre.org/spark/

Playwright’s Center

https://emergingartiststheatre.org/spark/

Manhattan Repertory Theatre

https://www.manhattanrep.com/

Baltimore Playwright’s Festival

https://www.baltplayfest.org/

International Playwriting Festival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Playwriting_Festival

Silver Spring Stage

https://www.ssstage.org/

OTHER REFERENCES:

Lesley’s Playwriting Masters

https://lesley.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writing

Fell’s Point Corner Theatre

https://www.fpct.org/

Rachel Feeney-Williams

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=rachel%20feeney%20williams

August Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson

Lloyd Richards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Richards

Tennessee Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

Elia Kazan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan

The Glass Menagerie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof