The Dimensions

Our One Act Festival is named in memory of Raymond Laine, a gifted actor, director, and teacher, and a legendary figure in the history of both the Playhouse and this training program. Raymond developed the advanced directing courses, which feature one-act plays and production teams of students and professionals working together. His mastery of his craft, wisdom, honesty, and high standards inspired all of his students to do their very best work. Raymond’s legacy is present in the work of these young artists today, including the directors, stage managers, actors, crew, technicians, and designers. We are honored to remember Raymond Laine by presenting these plays to you, our audience.

- Steven Wilson, Advanced Directing Professor and Point Park Faculty

Last semester, we knew we didn't want to do "Zoom plays". We pushed ourselves beyond what most of us thought we were capable of and each created our very own short films (which you all loved! thanks!). This semester, we wanted to challenge ourselves more than ever before. The Spring semester One Acts Festival always features new works, and just because we were working in this digital medium, didn't mean we wanted to let go of that piece of tradition that symbolizes so much of what Raymond Laine stood for. So, we carried the torch of new works into the spring semester and created all-new, never-before-seen stories in the beautiful (but complicated) medium that is film. Even though we hold onto this piece of the RLM One Acts festival tradition, we continue to redefine what the One Acts Festival could mean under a world rooting against its very existence. These projects are all entirely created with new mediums, new scripts, new performers, new methods; new dimensions.