2010 WINNERS

FIRST PLACE: (a tie for First Place)
Breeders by Bob Ost
Three Generations of Imbeciles by William Baer

SECOND PLACE: 
The Barbecue by Buddy Farmer

FINALIST:
A Good Day by Susan Hickey

HONORABLE MENTION:
A Magical Midnight by Nicolette Vaitay
Aftermath by Sarah Cole
Piano Lessons for Dad by John Kaasik
Unnatural Selection by Steve Neufeld

PLAY LOG LINES / SYNOPSES
FIRST PLACE: (a tie for First Place)
Three Generations of Imbeciles by William Baer
Eugenics asserts that "heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime."  This play takes place in 1927, just after the birth of the eugenics theory in America. An idealistic young lawyer tries to stop a young girl with a low IQ from being sterilized against her will, but finds himself thwarted by America's quest to develop the perfect race.

FIRST PLACE: (a tie for First Place)
Breeders by Bob Ost
In response to overpopulation and the general bad state of the world, an artists’ colony takes a moral stance forbidding its members from further breeding.No problem, since they are all gay … until two members discover their latent heterosexuality.

SECOND PLACE: The Barbecue by Buddy Farmer 
A rich Rush Limbaugh type man and his less conservative wife have a spur-of-the-moment barbecue attended by several uninvited guests from various ethnic, cultural, sexual, and racial backgrounds.This clash of diversity results in fights, a bad drug deal, child birth and a social catharsis for the host as well as many of the guests.

FINALIST: A Good Day by Susan Hickey
A young twenty-something overcoming a traumatic past of sexual abuse and drug abuse, and an elderly man overcoming the trauma of the holocaust must work together to realize the difference between living and surviving.

UPDATES FOR 2010 WINNERS

Breeders by Bob Ost received a reading with a Q & A at 13th Street Rep February 20, 2011.

Three Generations of Imbeciles by WIlliam Baer received a reading with a Q & A at 13th Street Rep March 6, 2011

Three Generations of Imbeciles by WIlliam Baer received a reading with a Q & A at 13th Street Rep June 2012

Three Generations of Imbeciles by William Baer was chosen for the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Saginaw, Michigan.

Three Generations of Imbeciles playwright William Baer was the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Grant for fiction.

The Barbecue by Buddy Farmer received a reading with a
Q & A at 13th Street Rep Aug 16, 2011.

The Barbecue by Buddy Farmer received another reading at  13th Street Rep March 3, 2013.

The Barbecue by Buddy Farmer, directed by Rob Hunkele, was produced by 13th Street Rep June 2013.
"Having the play staged and being able to watch it was invaluable to me and I deeply appreciate you (Sandra), Rob
and 13th Street Rep taking on this project." Buddy Farmer