<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/westmont-news/professor-publishes-short-play-collection.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>07/27/2026</pubDate><title>Professor Publishes Short Play Collection</title><excerpt>A longtime Westmont theater professor helped create a process encouraging college students to develop short plays. In the past 13 years, the Hive has yielded 120 plays by MFA playwrights from various universities, providing eclectic and diverse material for Westmont’s annual Fringe Festival.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image><img src="/westmont-news/Mitchell-Thomas-Book-Header.jpg.jpeg" alt="Professor Publishes Short Play Collection"/></image><caption/><description>A longtime Westmont theater professor helped create a process encouraging college students to develop short plays. In the past 13 years, the Hive h...</description></item>