2014 FINALISTS & HONORABLE MENTION
FIRST PLACE: Years of Sky by Barbara Blatner SECOND PLACE: All That Remains by Ursula Jordan FINALISTS: Hattie’s Dress by Walter Vail Holding Rain by Talya Adams TBD (To Be Determined) by Paul Elliott HONORABLE MENTION: Bethlehem by Matthew Howard Clippings by Royal Jones Medusa Undone by Michelle Poynton Mississippi Is by Ariadne Blayde The Devil is Waiting by Robert Barker The Man She Was by Ric Averill The Unrepentant by John Lattimore PLAY LOG LINE / SYNOPSIS 2014 FIRST PLACE: Years of Sky by Barbara Blatner Years of Sky chronicles the difficult but enduring love of a bi-racial couple whose fate is bound to the Kennedy assassinations and almost 30 years of American politics. At key moments in 1963, 1968 and 1992, David who is black and Stace who is white confront the racial divide and forge a relationship in spite of it. 2014 SECOND PLACE: All That Remains by Ursula Jordan All That Remains is a play about one woman’s journey to find self acceptance and the will to live in a time of gender and racial inequality. |
UPDATES FOR 2014 WINNERS
Years of Sky received a reading at 13th Street Repertory, New York City on May 13, 2015. Directed by Joe Battista. Years of Sky received a production at 59E59 Theaters, NYC, February and March 2013.
Years of Sky won the Columbia-Greene Playwrights Contest. Years of Sky was presented as a 2015 Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLabs play. * * * * * * * Hattie's Dress was produced by the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays at Penn's Annenberg Center Theatre, and subsequently produced in New York City by The Open Eye: New Stagings.
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