January 8th-10th
Synopsis
The 2026 One-Act Festival is comprised of student-directed short plays, some of which are also student-written! A longtime HTC tradition, the One-Acts give seniors an opportunity to experience directing and putting together their own shows, and allow actors to explore their talents in non-conventional roles. The 2026 Winter One-Acts will be performed January 8th-10th in the Harriton Black Box.
The One-Acts will be taking place in the Black Box, which has limited seating capacity. Due to this, tickets may not be available at the door. You are only guaranteed a seat if you purchase online.
The 2026 One-Acts and Casts
The Chocolate Affair, written by Stephanie Walker and directed by Delaney Free and Will Epstein
October 31st, Beverly steals her daughter’s halloween candy and sneaks into a shady motel to eat it alone. Just her and a pumpkin basket. Yet to her surprise, she’s greeted with mysterious guests Mr. Goodbar and M&M who look suspiciously like candy as they try to talk sense into her. Justifying eating a child’s candy isn’t exactly easy, but it’s all with the right intentions.
BEVERLY – Emil Brody
MR. GOODBAR – Ellie Reber
M&M – Sydney Newmuis
No Space, No Time, written & directed by Henry Yearly
It’s opening night for a local theater’s performance of their own custom show, “Space and Time”. However, due to a tremendous loss in their budget, and a considerable lack of communication between the director and the actors, the performance turns out to be….below average at best. Just imagine the things that could have happened with money!
ACTOR 1 – Wren Kovalchuk
ACTOR 2 – Lev Marmer
ACTOR 3 – Sasha Maslen
UNDERSTUDY – Ariel Dichamp
DIRECTOR – Makayla Purdie
STAGE MANAGER – Grayson Joson
Porridge: A New Musical, written and directed by Casey Everson
Meredith and her son, Horace, are in need of food because of a famine in the region that has caused shortages of ingredients. “Luckily”, an excess of leftover, frozen packages of porridges are widely available. Eventually, Meredith has trouble affording porridge yet Clarabelle has way too much and no one to share it with. One lucky day, their paths cross, and suddenly they switch houses. This goes well at first, but Meredith forgets to take her son with her! In the end, the two women decide to both move into Clarabelle’s house, and Horace follows them on a hungry stomach and a spoonful of sweet revenge…
MEREDITH – Belle Starr
CLARABELLE – Harlequinn Toth
HORACE – Fransya Turenne
MR. BORIS – Esti Richter
Forget Me Not, Tuberosa, written & directed by Tenzin Joh
“Hey, it’s me again. It’s not like it’d be anyone else anyway; it’s always been you and me for as long as you can remember. I’m the one who never leaves, after all. Nothing else matters-” Except seeing the show!
ALEX – Jack Ingoisi
LUMEN – Ella Texada
ROWAN – Clark Heaton
STERLING – Bridgett Appiah
AMITY – Rowan O’Sullivan
Variations on the Death of Trotsky, written by David Ives and directed by Sara Yushkevich
Leon Trotsky is dying—again and again. Set on the day of his assassination in 1940, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia, relive the moments surrounding his death after discovering an encyclopedia entry that describes how he dies.
TROTSKY – Coy Evans
MRS. TROTSKY – Colbie Tomei
RAMON – Maximillien Munch
Classic Murder, written & directed by Rosa DeMonte
It all starts off with a dinner party. With all of the characters talking to each other then the lights go out and a big scream and the host is dead on the floor stabbed, the butler is covered in blood holding a bloody knife The detective tries to solve the crime but is an idiot and goes into shenanigans.
HUGO HOMES – Harrison Cobitz
QUINN – Leo Baker
THE BUTLER – Owen Pierson
EDRICK – Hailey Sun
OLIVIA – Maddie Zinck