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Step into a world where joyful childhood memories spark tales of personal self-discovery. Those are the core themes of this year’s ScriptWorks OUT OF INK 2025: In Step. This varied collection of ten-minute plays reveals ScriptWorks members' creative renderings of three mandatory script ingredients that provided inspiration during the Weekend Fling 48-hour writing event in the fall.

This year, director/playwright Christopher Fontanes, actor and long-time Out of Ink ensemble member Gina Houston, and dancer/choreographer Kelsey Oliver provided the following ingredients:

Be inspired by a joyful memory from your childhood
Include a character finding their true purpose
Include synchronistic footwork

At the end of the Weekend Fling, the plays were read in a ScriptWorks Salon. A selection committee consisting of playwright and stage manager, Maxine Dillon; multi-hyphenate theatre artist and scholar, Lisa Flanagan; and Bottle Alley founder and Vortex Associate Artistic Director, Chris Fontanes, chose eight plays for production in Out of Ink from the thirty-plus plays that were submitted.