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Sunday, November 9, 2025

In-Person Reading!
12:30 to 4 p.m.

Venue

Lakeside Public Library
12428 Woodside Avenue
San Diego, CA 92040 United States

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In-Person Reading: Competition Winners

Special In-Person Reading
Winning plays from the
2025 “Script Tease of Short Plays Competition”

Date: Sunday, November 9
12:30 – Light refreshments
Readings: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Lakeside Public Library
12428 Woodside Avenue
Lakeside, CA 92040
Limited Seating!

Readings begin promptly at 1 p.m.,
followed by a facilitated discussion.
Afterwards, gather with the playwrights and
actors to discuss the plays.
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  • FEELING–AN EMOTIONAL STATE OR REACTION, by Max Kennel

    Mary, a blind mole person, and SIR (short for Social Interaction Replicator), a robot with sensory processing issues, come to an understanding about each other over a rotten tangerine that SIR can’t stop caressing.
    First Prize, 2025 Script Tease of Short Plays Competition

  • YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, by Roger Henry

    Jordan, intending to propose to his girlfriend, meets Rex, who is running from his life’s problems, at a TSA x-ray machine, an unexpected cross-roads that could have resounding implications for both their fates.
    Second Prize, 2025 Script Tease of Short Plays Competition

  • DUE, by Tim West

    An elderly woman accosts a young library assistant to renew a book on Time Travel – long overdue – without proper authorization. Both borrower and author bear the same faintly familiar name.
    Third Prize, 2025 Script Tease of Short Plays Competition; also “Judge’s Favorite”

  • HOSTILE, by Marielle Vizcarra

    As Josie and her grandmother Annie are preparing for the funeral of Josie’s beloved aunt (Annie’s daughter), an unexpected guest arrives to throw them for a loop. Hostile is a play about anger and resentment, and what it means to address those feelings when it’s too late.
    “Judge’s Favorite”, 2025 Script Tease of Short Plays Competition

  • Moderator:
    Marc Biagi
    About the Authors...

    • Max Kennel
      is a San Diego-based writer. His play, The Story of Jimmy Kaplingus, has received awards from the Kennedy Center and Cal Poly Arts. Currently, he’s trying to write a book about a workaholic superhero and earn a multiple-subject teaching credential.

    • Roger Henry is a San Diego-based playwright and screenwriter who began writing scripts in 2022. His work generally aims to stir emotion, reaction or conversation while exploring the human condition, usually with an injection of his quirky sense of humor. He is grateful to have found his community as a member of The Scripteasers.

    • Tim West: Approaching his 40th year as theatre artist, Tim West continues active as actor in readings with Riot and Roustabouts, and with his own series of monthly readings at Trinity Theatre, 2024-25. West’s short plays have been seen in half-a-dozen states, his one-act and full-length plays produced in San Diego.

    • Marielle Vizcarra is a bilingual Mexicana-Americana who identifies herself as a poet, playwright, podcaster and creative. She is fascinated by the family dynamic in Latinx/e households and enjoys portraying these stories in her work. Some of her plays have been performed in San Diego, Boston, New York, Texas, Atlanta and Virginia.

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