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Southern Fried Bake-Off – Back For Seconds!

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No Comments Crispopher Bouquet, an anthromoporphized bucket of fried chicken, smiles at the viewer, at the center of an orange-to-yellow colored starburst surrounded by text reading: Southern Fried Bake-Off: Back for Seconds, January 3-4, 2025, Essential Theatre, 7Stages

The Southern Fried Bake-Off returns January 3 and 4, 2025 to start your year off right by having fun with folks from across our community, doing what we do best: making theater together.

New year, new home
Last year’s Bake-Off at CORE in Decatur was a hit. We literally had standing room only by showtime! So this year we’re thrilled to announce our move to a bigger venue: go ahead and block off Saturday evening January 4 and come spend it with us and this year’s producing partner, 7Stages!

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First Annual Southern Fried Bake-Off (January 2024)

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Join Essential Theatre on January 5 and 6 as we launch a new 24 Hour Play Festival at Core Dance in downtown Decatur! A variation on past Atlanta 24 hour play festival formats, the Southern Fried Bake-Off will be an exhilarating 24 hours where participants write, rehearse, and perform brand new plays based on a Bake-Off theme and a list of “ingredients.”

“We want to come together and create new work just for the fun of it,” shares Bake-Off co-creator Emily McClain, “and the Bake Off model allows for maximum creative challenge in a short time frame like a 24 hour plays festival.”

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