Pictured from left to right: Bottom row: Director Erika Tyner, Playwright Walter Thinnes; Top row: Addison Amos (stage directions), Tom Harrison (Quinn), Austin Dakota Whitehead (Joshua), Lily Bartleson (Anna), Olivia Woodford (Lillian), Alan Steele (Caleb)

The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, North Carolina has announced that the winner of their Appalachian Playwriting Festival, based on the readings t,his past weekend is my script BLOODLETTING IN THESE HILLS.

This script will receive another staged reading at the Center for Pioneer Life on Saturday, September 28th at 5:30pm on the porch of the cabin as a part of The Center’s Harvesting Heritage Festival this weekend. Find out more and grab your tickets here: https://bit.ly/APFatTheCenter

Best of all it will also be fully produced in our 2025 Mainstage Season. This production will be showing August 1-10, 2025, and will be directed by Elizabeth DeVault. I am already looking forward to the event!