Seattle native chosen for college one-act play contest

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WALLA WALLA, WA (02/17/2012)(readMedia)-- David Otten of Seattle recently participated in the 2012 Whitman College one-act play contest. Two of his plays, "Little Brother" and "The Station," were chosen as finalists for the contest. The festival ran from Wednesday, Feb. 8 to Sunday, Feb. 12.

The plays were quite different from one another. "Little Brother" is about a grandfather and his soldier granddaughter in a post-apocalyptic world. "The Station" tells the story of an awkward janitor who falls in love with a woman waiting at a train station.

The annual one-act play festival gives Whitman students the opportunity to see their original work on stage. Student playwrights submit their work in the fall, and faculty judges select three plays to be performed in the spring. All one-acts are written, acted in, and directed by Whitman students.

Otten, the son of Michael and Susan Otten, is a 2008 graduate of Bishop Blanchet High School. He is currently a senior theatre major at Whitman.