“ A Very Short Intro to Very Short Plays” with John Augustine

February 26, 2026
4:00 - 5:30 pm

Volta Center for Writing Arts
Bucks County Community College Library
Newtown, PA

Fee:
$15.00 adults
$10.00 students, seniors, veterans
*scholarships are available

Join us for a quick look at how much a very short play can accomplish in no time at all. 

We will explore examples, try a few of our own, and we will do it all in record time with the inimitable  John Augustine.

JOHN AUGUSTINE’S plays have been produced in NYC at The Zipper, HERE, Naked Angels, Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Miranda Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and 59E59 Theaters and National Theatre Of The Deaf

His anthology of 20 short plays, Augustine’s Confessions, is published by Playscripts.com. Also published in the short play anthologies Take Ten, Best American Short Plays. His play PeopleSpeak is published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier. The New York Times wrote of this play, “PeopleSpeak” (is) a witty and acerbic play that is the best of the Summer Shorts festival.” He and playwright, Willy Conley were commissioned by the National Theatre of the Deaf, to write OH! FIGARO! Touring the United States. For television, Augustine wrote for the Fox TV show Titus and for Encore! Encore! with Nathan Lane and Joan Plowright. He has taught playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The 42nd Street Collective, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and Bucks County Playhouse. He is a Revson Fellow, and a member of WGA,The Dramatists Guild, SAG, AEA.