{"id":289,"date":"2026-02-09T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:56:41","slug":"festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/blog\/festival-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hosted By Potomac Playmakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hagerstown, MD<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>January 30, 31, February 1, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Outstanding Production<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Transient Faults,<\/em> Rockville Little Theatre<em><br \/>\nThe Waiting Room<\/em>, Silver Spring Stage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Outstanding Production\u2014Runner-Up<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>For Better or For Crying Out Loud<\/em>, Opening Night Productions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Cliff Smith Memorial Award for Excellence <\/strong><strong>in Directing<br \/>\n<\/strong>Natalie McManus, <em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<br \/>\nRobin Berl, <em>The Waiting Room<\/em>, Silver Spring Stage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ed-Ro-Char Award for Excellence in Technical Achievement<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Production Team, <em>Transient Faults,<\/em>Rockville Little Theatre<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sandra K. Doherty Award for Excellence in Stage Management<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ali Baughman, Potomac Playmakers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Outstanding Performance<br \/>\n<\/strong>Robert Sebo, <em>For Better or For Crying Out Loud<\/em>, Opening Night Productions<br \/>\nMarla Harper, <em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<br \/>\nDavid Dieudonne, <em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<br \/>\nRachel Brightbill, <em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<br \/>\nErica Smith, <em>The Waiting Room<\/em>, Silver Spring Stage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Outstanding Ensemble Performance<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<br \/>\n<em>Ruby<\/em>, Thunderous Productions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Outstanding Achievement in Scenography (Set and Costume Design)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Production Team, For Better or For Crying Out Loud<\/em>, Opening Night Productions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Excellence in Playwriting<br \/>\n<\/strong>Meredith Yanchak, <em>The Last Student<\/em>, Potomac Playmakers<br \/>\nB. G. Craig, <em>Transient Faults<\/em>, Rockville Little Theatre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted By Potomac Playmakers Hagerstown, MD January 30, 31, February 1, 2026 Outstanding Production Transient Faults, Rockville Little Theatre The Waiting Room, Silver Spring Stage Outstanding Production\u2014Runner-Up For Better or For Crying Out Loud, Opening Night Productions Cliff Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Directing Natalie McManus, Transient Faults, Rockville Little Theatre Robin Berl, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mctfa.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}