Queens Short Play Festival 2024 Tickets

Queens Short Play Festival 2024 Running: February 2024 – March 2024

The Queens Short Play Festival launches on February 22nd and runs for four weeks until the Grand Final on Sunday, March 24th. The Secret has a long tradition of presenting short and one-act play festivals over the last decade; the Queens Short Play Festival is a popular event where you will see over 60 plays, and perhaps 120 – 180 different actors in the multiple shows that are split into different programs. The shows can be funny, serious, poignant, moving, thought-provoking, irreverent and sweet but whichever program you choose you will see talented actors present great original, contemporary plays.

The festival is a friendly competition where the various plays compete in their group for audience votes. After 4 performances the scores are tallied and the top two plays from each group move on to the Semi-Finals then from the two Semis a final 8 plays are chosen to compete in the Grand Final. At the finals stage the audience votes on two non-gendered Best Actor Categories, Best Director and Best Play.

Before the awards ceremony at the Finals, the audience and casts enjoy a free after-party with cocktails and hot dogs while all the votes are counted before we hand out the oversized checks.