C.O.W. FESTIVAL 2025

About the 2025 Created Original Works Festival

Broken in the Multiverse

Written by the 2024 Character Work class

A multi-verse traveling deity is unexpectedly anchored in place by a young mortal who is struggling with all aspects of his life.  As the deity attempts to fix the “broken one” it has unintended consequences across the multiverse, leading the deity to understand that sometimes brokenness must take its own time to heal.

Moving On

Written by the 2024 Character Work class

Friends navigate insecurities, broken friendships, and whether to forgive others, or even yourself. 

The Domino Effect

Written by the 2024 Character Work class

 Mason’s obsession with ordering food delivery inadvertently summons three deities, sparks a godly war, and leads to a high-stakes competition of the mortal apprentices. 

The Kingdom of Detentiona or The Girl Who Found Her Words

Written by the 2024 Introduction to Scene Study class

A girl struggles to make friends and is isolated/low status at school.  At home, she deals with her annoying little sister and her instigating friends.  When she is falsely blamed for plagiarizing her school project work, she is sent to detention, which becomes a fantasy land where all the characters in her life are represented in this strange world.  As she journeys through this land, she realizes she can make changes in her own world if only she can find her way back. 

Lockdown Drill

Written by the 2024 Inside Out class

A group of students take shelter in the library when a drill happens, and continue their conversations, interactions in that claustrophobic space and pressured situation. 

Ric’s Bad Day

Written by the 2024 Aesops Improv class

Ric needs coffee.  He really needs coffee.  But he forgot to have coffee, and that’s just the start of his very bad day.  He gets picked on at school, lets down his true friends, and then turns to revenge with his mad scientist machine.  As his machine turns the other students into fable characters that represent them, he begins to realize that the morals in Aesops Fables can help not only his friends, but can help him, even on a bad day.