Feb 25, 2021 LAKE PLACID This week the Lake Placid Center for the Arts will begin to feature winners of the Zoom Play Festival, a celebration of short plays written exclusively for Zoom. The showcase will be available for purchase on Vimeo beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday through March 26. Patrons can find all information and a link to the Vimeo page at www.lakeplacidarts.org/virtual-experiences/zoomfest. In August 2020, the LPCA put out a call for new plays written specifically to be performed on Zoom as an opportunity for theater artists to keep creating in the new landscape shaped by the pandemic. The showcase is a compilation of eight one-act plays: four winners and four honorable mentions selected from more than 135 submissions sent in from all over the world.
Yuyu Kitamura as the prospective client.
Covid & Cigarettes follows two other collections of ten-minute plays,
Coffee & Cigarettes and
Aurora Theatre founder
Nicole Garbellini always thought of these projects fondly, as they were both fun and very much community oriented. She began to put together a project that could be accessible worldwide, as well as something that could give relief to the artists involved.
Nicole Garbellini commented: “And then it hit me: what if we were to present a third volume of C&C, but with Covid as the main theme, and have it online so that the whole world could have access to it?