2026 SacTown Play Festival

Join us at our 5th Annual SacTown Play Festival featuring the works of aspiring playwrights!

At the festival, each of the playwrights scripts will be performed and a panel of judges (local theatre professionals) will determine the winners for Best Playscript ($200 prize) and Best Directing and Staging ($100 prize – for the director).

And YOU, the audience, will also have the opportunity to vote for your favorite play (a prize of $75 to the playwright and $75 to the director) and who you think the Best Actor and Best Actress of the festival was (includes TBA prizes as well!).

The finalists will be announced in July! Stay tuned!

WHEN

Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 1pm (Doors open 30 minutes to curtain)

VENUE

Royal Stage Theatre
6174 Sunrise Blvd.,
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
(Note: the venue is on the Greenback end of the mall, in between where Macy’s Mens and Zumiez used to be)

TICKETS

$12 – online
$15 – at the door

Tickets Go on Sale in Mid-August

About the Festival

The SacTown Play Festival has been created to support aspiring playwrights.

The competition has been designed with the goal to inspire, educate and nurture artists and our community towards a thoughtful and humane world view through the art of story-telling.

We desire to help theatre artists find their voices, cultivate social consciousness and prepare for a lasting career. We support new AND established playwrights and incubate new plays.

We seek to make a lasting, life-long impression on our community – inspiring the audience to continue provocative conversations long after the curtain closes.

The scripts participating at the Festival will be chosen based on script creativity, characterization, and staging potential. The festival will feature six 1-Act plays (must be 10 to 15 minutes long) written by aspiring playwrights.