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2005 WINNERS

FIRST PLACE:
God, Sex and Blue Water by Linda Faigao-Hall

SECOND PLACE:
Power in the Blood by T. Cat Ford

THIRD PLACE:
Arkadelphia by Brett Williams

FINALIST:
Call Me Vincent by Audrey Stanley 
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Marion Marion by David R. Draheim
Revolution by Sung J. Woo
He Came Home One Day While I Was Washing Dishes
      by K. Biadaszkiewicz
The Middle Eastern Beauty Unveiled by Rosanna Cacace
Joe B by Norman Rhodes
Back of All Things by Celia McBride


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FIRST PLACE WINNER:
God, Sex and Blue Water by Linda Faigao-Hall
This unconventional farce about religion and family love focuses on a Filipino family's attempts to assimilate in America. Laling, a deeply religious woman, plans on following out the custom of her native homeland by crucifying herself during the Easter pasyon. Her daughter, Clarita, a healer experiencing the stigmata, has just arrived in the US from a childhood in a convent, and has met Brian, an American badly in need of salvation.

 
SECOND PLACE WINNER:
Pow'r in the Blood by T. Cat Ford.
A daughter visits her dying mother in this Southern Gothic comedy set against a background of the religious right. Mother and daughter try to touch each other over the gulf of their differences and in doing so bruise each other repeatedly. As the final moment comes, all that is left is a willingness to touch. 

2005 THIRD PLACE WINNER:
Arkadelphia by Brett Williams.
Bobby returns to his hometown of Arkadelphia, Arkansas after a semester of college in Manhattan. Seeking refuge in two childhood friends, he ends up exposing a secret the small, religious town would rather keep buried.


UPDATES FOR 2005 WINNERS

God, Sex and Blue Water by Linda Faigao-Hall was produced on NYC's Theater Row at the Lions Theater, April 18 - May 9, 2009.

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Pow'r in the Blood by T. Cat Ford received a reading with Q & A at 13th Street Rep on October 8, 2006.

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Arkadelphia by Brett Williams received a reading with Q & A at 13th Street Rep on July 23, 2006.

Arkadelphia was submitted to Applause Books by the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest for inclusion in their Best American Short Plays for 2005; Applause Books published Arkadelphia.

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He Came Home One Day While I Was Washing Dishes by
K. Biadaszkiewicz, which received an Honorable Mention, was published by Applause Books when New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest submitted it for inclusion in Applause Books' Best American Short Plays for 2005.
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