Previous fall, when the leaders of the Raven Gamers theater business invited playwrights throughout the state to submit original, unpublished scripts for the theater’s very first shorter participate in competition, they rather underestimated the reaction.

“We had been hoping to get 50 to a hundred submissions,” explained Steven Martin, the company’s inventive director. “We got properly above 800, and that was wonderful, but then we had to read them all.”

It took more than two dozen volunteer participate in visitors and multiple rounds of voting to pare down the mountain of scripts to the fifteen plays that will be presented