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LONG STORY SHORT: 10 minute plays – Thursdays, Jan. 18 and 25, Cascade Campus
Gail Jeidy
Six plays written and directed by PCC students Tayde Ramirez, Richard Sangeleer, John Pfeil, JJ Lostica, Garrett 
DeRose/David Traynor and Matt Sorensen/Brad Sosinski will premiere as part of the 2018 Fertile Ground Festival of New Work. Showings are slated for Thursdays, Jan. 18 and 25 in the Moriarty auditorium on the Cascade campus.
The plays were written in PCC Creative Writing Scriptwriting classes and celebrated in a handbook of 10-minute student plays produced Summer 2017. “This short form gives full voice to student stories,” says Gail Jeidy, scriptwriting instructor and creative advisor to the production. The diverse works pose questions of sexuality (Enough Wine to Kill a Horse – Sorensen) and coming to terms with family in the AI age (Sage – Pfeil). One showcases the dialogue between two runners in the 10 minutes before a championship race (5K – Lostica) and another explores what happens when an everyday shopper meets a sentient self-check-out station (Barcodes – DeRose). There’s a complete telenovela in under 10 minutes (Beautifully Ugly – Ramirez) and a tortured take on the writing process (Last Call – Sangeleer).
“The students have gone above and beyond to make this event happen,” says Jeidy. Performances are free and open to the public.