One Act Festival

One Act Festival

The LOST Theatre Company has run the One Act Festival each year for the past 27 years. This event offers the chance for participants to air their work on the London fringe in front of an appreciative audience of industry professionals and friends.

2012 sees LOST building on the success of the radical changes we made to the Festival last year. So, again this year we are especially looking for directors and writers who are 27 years old or younger. However, this does not exclude people above that age, if your director and writer are both older than 27 you can still enter as long as your entire cast are under 27. Simple!

The prizes will be for the Best New Writer (under 27) Best New Director (under 27) and Best Cast (under 27). The 3 winners will be offered the chance to run their winning work for 4 nights at LOST in the autumn. All we ask is that each show must consist of only one Act and be between 20 and 45 minutes in length. Every year we invite an adjudicator to watch all the shows and to provide constructive comment and criticism of each show at the end of every evening. If you are a budding Director with no play or a writer with a play and no Director, we also welcome your entries and will try and match you up.

Previous Winners

One Act 2011 – Adjudicator Jeremy Kingston

Best Direction (under 27 old age): Almost 1 million – Directed by Jenny Parsons

Best New Writing (under 27 old age): Suffer the Little Children – Written by Jamie Chandler

Best Cast (under 27 old age): The Winning Crowd – The National Arts Service

Adjudicators Special Commendations:

Conversations with Love – Ann Akin

The Spiral Sown by Jermaine Barton

One Act 2010 – Adjudicator Jeremy Kingston

Guest Presenters – Alun Armstrong, Dennis Kelly, Ralph Fiennes

Best Direction: Martinis and Midnight directed by Alice Cooper

Best New Writing: Catch written by Emma Jowett

Best Overall Production: Selling Clive

One Act 2009 - Adjudicator Jeremy Kingston

Best New Writing: Anna Jordan for ‘Just For Fun – Totally Random’

Best Direction: Benet Catty for ‘Tabooed’ by Katty Pearce

Best Overall Production: ‘Monday’ by Gloria Williams

Adjudicators Special Award – ‘Barren’ by Cassie Vallance & Gus Gowland

One Act 2008 - Adjudicator Jeremy Kingston

Guest Presenter – Steven Berkoff

Best New Writing:  ‘All Talk’ by Benet Catty

Best Direction: ‘The Big Ending’ Directed by Tammy Mendelson

Best Overall Play: ‘Angel’ by Matt Grinter and Directed by George Turvey

Adjudicators Special Award for Outstanding Performance: ‘Blind Spots’ Written, Directed & Performed by Robert Crighton

One Act 2007 - Adjudicator Adrian Brown

Guest Presenter – Alison Steadman

Best Direction: A Woman Uncertain Age – Mark O’Grady

Best Overall Play: Henna Night – Directed by Kevin O’Sullivan

Best New Writing: Teaching Gods – Written by Robert Crighton

One Act 2006 - Adjudicator Adrian Brown

Best Direction: Siren Song of Stephen J. Gould – Directed by Emma Serlin

Best Overall Play: Fantasy Terrorist League – Written & Performed by Robert Crighton

Best New Writing: Brief as Women’s Love – Written by Darren Munn

One Act 2005 - Adjudicator Adrian Brown

Best Direction: Two Way Mirror – Directed by Mike Miller

Best Overall Play: Mad Margaret’s Revenge – Written by Lesley Ross

Best New Writing: All Talk – Written by Benet Catty

Adjudicators Special Award – 4th Photo by Jenny Ayres & Glimpse of the Invisible

One Act 2004 - Adjudicator Adrian Brown

Best Direction: Surgeon & the Nurse – Directed by David Dorrian

Best Overall Play: Catching Dust – by Tangled Feet Productions

Best New Writing: Madam Butterfly’s Child – Written by Lesley Ross