From Cradle to Stage 2026 - New Play Festival

From Cradle to Stage is Walterdale’s new play reading program. Walterdale welcomes original play submissions from local playwrights and offers them the opportunity to share their work, gain audience feedback, and experience a workshop atmosphere through staged readings of their finished, original, and unproduced plays. These works should be between 10-60 minutes in length, of any genre.

This is also an opportunity for budding directors to get some experience directing these staged readings.

We are pleased to offer two types of tickets for this festival. You can purchase a general admission ticket for $10.00/show or $24.00 for a festival pass, getting you one ticket to each unique night of programming.

MAY 19 & 23, directed by Dalton Terhorst:
The Dress That Made the Girl by Lynda Celentano
The Long Ride Into Town by Katherine Orsten
Esme and Gillian by Amir Shah

MAY 20 & 22, directed by Mike Hicks
To Be Hanged by Matt Dale
Far From The Tree by Marisa Scarbeau
Wooden by Kalin Jensen

MAY 21 & 24, directed by Rye Fournier
Pieces by Jezec Sanders
Good N' Gooders by Logan Sundquist
The Easy Road by Kristen M. Finlay

All plays, playwrights, directors, and dramaturges can be found here.