As a pastry chef, Hannah Mitchell could be providing any of the sweet treats that accompany the ceremonies that take place in the “Happy Endings Wedding Chapel,” which has its premiere Aug. 12 at the Sarasota Players.

But she’s also the playwright who came up with the idea for a comedic play that she says is a “like a diary of what I was going through at the time I was writing it.”

It’s about love and divorce and marriage, and Mitchell said there are a lot of similarities between her and the main character, Kathy, who runs a wedding chapel with her mother and other extended family members.

The play was the selected as the winner of the 2024 Sarasota Players New Play Festival, which featured readings of five new works. The prize is a full production the following summer.

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