Acme Theater of Maynard, MA is proud to announce the selections for our 8th annual New Works Winter Festival. The festival will be performed over two weekends: January 9, 10, 16, and 17. Selected plays will be divided into two festival tracks and will be performed once per weekend. At the conclusion of each festival track, one playwright will be awarded the audience choice award, known as "The Charlie".

The 2009 New Works will be:

• Azariah by Ron Frankel
• Alex and Anne by Jay Boyer
• Hot Zero by Peter Snoad
• Pregnant Pause by Jay Hanagan
• Is Anyone Sitting Here? by John C. Davenport
• Holy Hell by Barbara Lindsay
• For Want Of A Shoe by Kristine McGovern
• Thirteen by Francis Alix
• The Wrong Mistake by Kim Z. Dale
• Things That Don't Happen by Lia Romeo
• Happy Birthday Leonard by Walter Thinnes
• Louisville Swinger by Alex Odom
• Secret Santa by Debra Wiess
• Shakespeare Lives! by Mark Harvey Levine
• That Thing by John Shanahan
• Heartbreak Hill by Lisa Burdick
• Not Funny by Christopher Lockheardt
• Alice… wonders by Debbie Roy
• The Error Proof Test by Philana Gnatowski
• In Bloom by Jennifer McCartney