Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings
Cincinnati, Ohio—July 10, 2025—At its June board meeting, Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
(CPI) Board of Directors announced the selected scripts for its New Voices 30th Anniversary 2025/2026 season which will showcase both new and emerging local playwrights.
The following CPI members will have their Full-length, One-Act and Short plays performed as
staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati on the following six Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
- September 16, 2025
HOLLYWOOD MASALA
A full-length play by Sanjay Puligadda - October 28, 2025
FRIGHTFEST
CPI’s annual ten-minute play festival fundraiser returns with a Halloween theme to
support the Cincinnati Care Center Animal Blood Bank. 8 short plays will be selected and
announced in July. - November 18, 2025
THANKS FOR CALLING a One-Act play by Dave Doster
STILLWATER DEPOT, CENTER STREET, AND SGT. SKINNER GOES FOR COFFEE
Three ten-minute plays by Clint Bramkamp - February 10, 2026
WELCOMING ECHOES
A one-Act play by Paul Bergman
MUST BE THE MUSIC, OFF THE BEATEN PARTH CAFE, NEXT TRAIN AT PLAYFORM 22, and THE HOLY TERRORS
A Playwright’s Potpourri: Four Ten-Minute Plays by Roger Collins - March 10, 2026
THE ANGELS OF MERCY
A one-act play by Charles Stephan
WHAT ARE THE ODDS
A ten-minute play by Charles Stephan - April 14, 2026
MARTHA’S WILL
A full-length historical fiction play by Susan and Doug Decatur
Twenty-minute audience talkback sessions are conducted for staged readings at the end of each performance. Written feedback will be obtained from the audience for FRIGHTFEST.
Season tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 11 through Tuesday, September 16, 2025 for $55 which includes all 6 dates for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at
www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2025-2026-series or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787. Single event tickets also go on sale July 11, 2025 for $11 per person. FRIGHTFEST tickets will be $16.50 each with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Cincinnati Care Center Animal Blood Bank. All ticket prices are inclusive of service fees.
CPI is a non-profit theater arts organization whose mission is to support playwrights in the
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to provide valuable feedback so that scripts can be further developed to potentially become fully produced or published.
To join CPI, visit the website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow on social media both on
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights and X https://x.com/cincyplaywright.
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