2023 Winning Plays, Playwrights, Directors, synopses, and characters. Click here
We are sorry to announce that we will not be having a Showcase this year. Please check back in January for information about the 2025 Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase. Thank you for your interest.
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
The Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, or NAPS, was founded in 2007 when two graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at Northern Arizona University, Patricia Petelin and Brooke Wonders, and Creative Writing Professor, Ann Cummins, proposed a collaboration with members of the Theatrikos Theater Company, Virginia Brown and Linda Sutera, to host an annual 10-minute play contest and performance.
NAPS AT A GLANCE
Summer playwriting contest – annual contest of 10-minute plays, judged anonymously by new judges each year
Late-summer performances – staged dramatic readings of the winning plays over a weekend in Flagstaff
Additionally – writing workshops, spooky Halloween plays, and other literary and theater partnerships throughout the year