Overnight Sensations 2025

Five original plays written OVERNIGHT and produced the NEXT DAY!

Since 2006, Hollins University's Playwright's Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre have partnered to bring this popular event to Roanoke. Five playwrights are randomly paired with five directors, who are then draw from a hat one of five casts made up of five actors. Then they draw random prompts to find out what the genre, theme, and location will be. The writers write all night, share their work with the director over breakfast and make revisions, then they share the plays with the actors at 11AM over lunch, and rehearse from noon to 5PM, when they do a cue to cue, set levels, and open the doors for the audience at 7:30 Saturday night so that we can share what we've done with all of you!

This year, as last year, we'll be doing this jointly produced event of the Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Partnership on the main stage of the Hollins University Theatre. Join us, won't you?

Always FREE and open to the public! No tickets or reservations necessary.

You may also like the following events from Hollins Playwright's Lab:

• Next Friday, 27th June, 11:00 pm, No Shame Theatre - Summer 2025 in Cloverdale
• Next Sunday, 29th June, 01:00 pm, Unified Auditions - 2025 in Roanoke
• This month, 30th June, 06:30 pm, Guest Speaker: Bob Bartlett in Waldron

Also check out other Arts events in Cloverdale, Theatre events in Cloverdale, Literary Art events in Cloverdale.