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2012 WINNERS

FIRST PLACE: 
The Front Steps by Marcia Jablonski
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Captain Corporate Personhood by Adam Sharp
Goodnight Mrs. Calabash (Wherever You Are)
                     by Jon S. Robbins
The Beaurocrat by Philip Pinkus
The Draper's Eye by Fengar Gale

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2012 FIRST PLACE:  
The Front Steps by Marcia Jablonski
Wally is a lonely, remorseful man, content living life sitting on his front porch while self-medicating with Old Style beer.  He finds new purpose when a single mother and her son become tenants in his three-flat.  Helping save them, he saves himself. 

UPDATES FOR 2012 WINNERS

The Front Steps received a reading  and Q & A at 13th Street Repertory in NYC - March 3, 2013.  Directed by Rob Belchere.

The Front Steps received a production at Alley Stage, Mineral Point, WI, in 2010.

The Front Steps won the 2009 Wisconsin Wrights Playwriting Competition.  

The Front Steps writer, Marcia Jablonski, is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Playwrights

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The Draper's Eye was given a concert reading in New York at the League of Professional Theatre Women's Julia Miles Reading Series, followed by a staged reading at Houston's Landing Theatre Company New American Voices Play Reading Series, and a staged reading at the Manhattan Theatre Works 2014 Newborn Festival where it received the Excellence in Playwriting Award sponsored by Indie Theatre Now. In April 2015, the play was given a workshop at the Athena Project's Plays in Progress Festival in Denver, Colorado, directed by Hart DeRose, with dramaturgy by Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski.
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