Student playwrights have an opportunity to get their work on a local stage.

Oswego Players, a local community theater group, announced that they are taking submissions for their annual short playwriting contest.

The Don McCann Memorial One-Act Playwriting Contest accepts submissions of 20-30 minute plays from anyone above 18 who resides or attends a college in New York state.

“Anyone who has ever had the slightest interest in writing a play is strongly encouraged to enter this year’s playwriting contest,” Oswego Players president Norman Berlin said in a news release.

Plays must be original concepts, previously unpublished or unproduced. They must be one act and require a single set.

Interested playwrights can send their plays to osweplay@yahoo.com by June 15.

Last year’s contest, out of 90 submissions, yielded four winners.

One winner, Michael Brumm, said it was his first time writing a play.

The contest’s namesake, former Oswego Players president Donald J. McCann, was also a professional reporter for the Palladium-Times. He joined Oswego Players in the 1950s and pushed for more cerebral plays, such as “The Visit,” “Agnes of God” and the controversial “Inherit the Wind.” He directed all three shows.

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