TEN MINUTE PLAY SHOWCASE 2026
Sunday, September 13 – Tuesday, September 15
2:00 pm Sunday / 7:30 pm Monday & Tuesday
ACT II Sharon Heflin Performing Arts Education Center
315 N Main St Suite A, North Little Rock, AR 72114
Featuring original and previously unproduced plays created by Arkansas playwrights, directors and performers, ACANSA’s Showcase returns in collaboration with Argenta Contemporary Theatre for a perfect “10”. Among multiple entries, plays are selected for performances in ACT II’s intimate black box setting, where the focus is on the essentials: the writing, the actors, the room, and the spark between artists and audience.
The ACANSA / ACT 10 Minute Play Showcase features a Halloween porch with an uninvited past, a mountain-trail myth, a homecoming halftime memory, a café argument after an anonymous accusation, a quiet park where danger finds its way in, and a couple trying to choose the right moment for an impossible goodbye.
The showcase is funny, sharp, surprising, heartfelt, and unmistakably local.
Selected Plays and Creative Teams
GRASS FED
By Fran Gerard
Directed by Erin Fowler
Featuring Mary Faulkner Turriff and Debby Herden
On Halloween night, a mother’s front porch becomes the last place she expected to face what she has finally learned to leave outside.
King Rabbit
By James Mainard O’Connell
Directed by Wyatt Hamilton
Featuring Alexis McAlister, Susan Thomey, Mark Hansen, and Stef Bailey
A park bench on a rugged trail becomes a meeting place for myth, certainty, and one very strange search for a miracle.
MISS 1977
By Jack Shock
Directed by Jeremy Williams
Featuring Jane Morgan Balgavy and Alexandra Powell
After a homecoming halftime show, a former twirler stares down fifty and finds unexpected glory in sequins, memory, and second chances.
Righteous Rage
By Scarlet Sims
Directed by Jeremy Williams
Featuring Diego Ladino, Adam Ryan Whitfield, Wil Wes, Marseiko Jackson, and Alexandra Powell
When an anonymous accusation shakes a local café, idealism, loyalty, and suspicion collide before closing time.
The Nazarene
By Charles Bonet
Directed by Jeremy Williams
Featuring Jameson Watkins, Tyranni Hubbard, and Ryan Bass
In a quiet park at dusk, a man chasing peace discovers the past still knows where to find him.
The Right Time
By Mark Mulkerin
Directed by Wyatt Hamilton
Featuring Jazmine Denney and Jameson Watkins
A couple tries to choose the right moment for an impossible goodbye, and finds out the argument is about much more than timing.
