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Livestreamed on this page Wednesday 18 April and Thursday 19 April 2012 4-6pm EDT.

New York, NY, United States
Wednesday 18 April and Thursday 19 April 2012.

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Short Play Awards at the Kennedy Center

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Wednesday 18 April and Thursday 19 April 2012.

Concert readings of the national finalists of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Ten Minute Play Award and the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play were livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 18 April and Thursday 19 April 2012.

The livestreaming schedule was as follows:

Wednesday, April 18 4-6pm EDT

Down by the Highway Side by Lupe Flores, Texas State University-San Marcos
Featuring Mitchell Hébert, John Stewart and Michael Willis
Directed by Jason King Jones
One imagined night of Robert Johnson’s San Antonio recording sessions.

The Lost Slipper by Amanda Newman, University of Missouri
Featuring Lauren Culpepper, Rana Kay, Tuyet Pham, Anastasia Martin, Julia Proctor and Pomme Koch
Directed by Jessica Burgess
Worlds collide as an American couple travels to China to adopt a baby girl.

Starf*cker by Adam Pasen, Western Michigan University
Featuring Jenna Sokolowski and Joe Brack
Directed by Michael Dove
Outside the mansion of a Hollywood A-Lister, Girl and Boy banter. As the banter slides dangerously close to a real conversation, Girl must decide whether to spend the night with the movie star or if she and Boy will embark on a movie of their own.

Honest to God by J.C. Pankratz, DePauw University
Featuring Melissa Flaim
Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner
After the death of her mother, Nina moves back to her Iowa childhood home to find the burning bush ablaze in her backyard.

Thursday, April 19 4:30pm-5:15pm EDT

White or the Musk Ox Play by Jonathan Fitts, New York University
Featuring Frank Britton, Rick Foucheux, Michael Kramer, Jennifer Mendenhall and Nancy Robinette
Directed by Colin Hovde
A grieving woman journeys to Point Barrow, Alaska, to scatter her father's ashes and when a muskox blocks her path, she must overcome both the beast and the memories of her father in order to finally let him go.

Thursday, April 19 6pm-6:50pm EDT
Unnamed Lands by Nicholas Sawin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Featuring Bobby Smith and Jim Holmes
Directed by Bob Bartlett

Somewhere in Between by Zdenka Turecek, Florida State University
Featuring Lauren Culpepper and Alejandro Rodriguez
Directed by Rahaleh Nassri
Growing apart is part of growing up. Two friends find themselves in the middle of a dried out corn field, somewhere in between love and letting go forever.

Jars by Brittany Taylor, Abilene Christian University
Featuring Alejandro Rodriguez and Joe Brack
Directed by Rahaleh Nassri
Two brothers try to connect over the distance caused by ones’ service to war and the others’ severe autism.

A scene from The Swing of the Sea by Molly Hagan. Ohio University, premiered by Arcadia University
Featuring Rana Kay and Joshua Morgan
Directed by Steven Carpenter
Recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award.

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing-arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected] or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal. View the video archive of past events.

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