15 Minutes of Frame 2025 Playwrighters' Competition

Playwrights, actors, and directors will be presenting 7 selected original plays of over 500 submissions. Audience votes!

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15 Minutes of Frame
A playwrighters' competition

Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond St, NY, NY 10012 (btwn Lafayette& Bowery)

Performances are

August 21st & 22nd at 8pm

August 23rd at 7pm

Dear audience,

Please join us — and help us select the winning play!

Our playwrights, actors, and directors will be presenting 7 of the best original plays from over 500 plays submitted — and the winner will be decided by you, the audience.

The winning production will have the opportunity to develop their 15-minute short play into a full production, to be presented and produced by Lucky’s Lighting Inc. and 24 Bond Arts Center at the Gene Frankel Theatre.

The winner will be announced following our final performance on Saturday night, August 23rd, followed by a gala celebration.

These festivals are presented in honor of Gene Frankel’s Summer Festival in August at The Gene Frankel Theatre & Film Workshop, and Gail Thacker’s Shotgun Theatre Festival at the Gene Frankel Theatre — where the audience vote tradition began!

This is our 3rd year of 15 Minutes of Frame, a playwrights’ competition held in August at the Gene Frankel Theatre. We look forward to this year’s competition and to welcoming our growing community.

Join us!

Lucky

Every year we choose an artist to draw our star. This year our beautiful star is by poet JORGE CLAR

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