With the help of his brother, College senior Jon Rand has created a website that has opened the door for ambitious playwrights to showcase their work on a larger scale than they could have ever imagined.
Playscripts.com is an online publishing company that has enlisted playwrights from Luxembourg, South Africa and Canada, as well as across the United States.
Rand and his older brother Doug started the company in March of 2000. Since then, they have been inundated with hundreds of submissions.
There are currently about 45 plays available on the site, and the company has already sold the rights to those plays for nearly 500 different productions.
"You hear from theater groups that are having a great time, and from playwrights that can't believe their plays are being performed," said Rand, a College senior.
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