Reserve Your Seat: The Cary One Act Workshop

Seats are available to attend the Cary One Act Workshop on Sunday, October 12. Reserve your seat by clicking below!

What is the Cary One Act Workshop?

The Cary One Act Workshop is a collaboration between Cary Players and the Cary Playwrights’ Forum. The 2025 Workshop is a one-day-only table reading of 3 short plays on Sunday, October 12, 2025 (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM), at the Cary Arts Center. After each reading, the participating artists and the audience will provide written feedback for the playwright. The workshop is FREE to attend.

Closure by Bahati Mutisya

Bahati Mutisya is a practicing attorney and a Raleigh native with a deep appreciation for the performing arts. In her youth, she danced, acted, and wrote her first play during a summer camp as a rising 5th grader. She is excited to return to her love of storytelling. Bahati’s play “Closure” is the result of her wild imagination exploring what it might look like for two people in a bitter place to use honesty and vulnerability to find a sweet ending—but with a twist!

Pair O’ Pants Lost by Ken Walsh

Ken Walsh finds stage scripts offer challenging story-telling constraints, and that appeals to his engineer side. After being an enthusiastic usher for many years at Triangle productions, he honed his playwriting skills with Cary Playwrights Forum (CPF), aiming to examine what drives solid relationships. Based on a nightmare, Ken’s second staged reading with CPF introduced a ten-minute comedy piece about a groom’s wedding day, and audience members asked what happened to the characters next. Instead, Ken discovered what happened before in CPF’s bar play production of Mac’s Basement. A series of five  scenes forms this 45-minute one act. Here you’ll be entering at a hotel lobby in Scene 2 “Pair O’ Pants Lost.”

Three’s a Crowd by Samantha Eppes

Samantha Eppes earned her BA in Theatre Performance from the University of South Florida, and has lived in Cary since 2022. Her ten-minute play The Moment Before was performed in the Winston-Salem 10 Minute Play Festival last June. Three's a Crowd is her most recent creation, which she originally wrote as a short story before adapting it to a stage play. You can find her scripts on New Play Exchange.