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2017 WINNERS
Submissions for 2015 and 2016 contained so many incredible plays.  And 2017 continues with submissions of extraordinary work.

Congratulations to all of the playwrights who wrote scripts that were finalists or scripts of honorable mention.  
FIRST PLACE
O Do Not Love Too Long by Richard Molloy
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SECOND PLACE
Street Poet by Caleb Corkery
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THIRD PLACE
Governor Kath by Cile Pace
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FOURTH PLACE 
The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer & Mary Wilkinson
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FIFTH PLACE
Heathen Hill by Jason Forbach
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FINALISTS (alphabetical)

A Tale of Africa by Tyler Powell
An Unexamined Life by William Ivers
David and Alice and Sophie Broke Up by Joel Fishbane
Golden Land by John Adams
Mortar and Pestle by Stuart Warmflash
Pomegrenade by Ran Xia
Shades of White by Ilan Kozlowski
The Grave Diggers Lament by Gavin Kayner
There is No You and Me by Linda Manning
Valley Story by Margaret Wesseling
When the Doorbell Rings by Krista Piccotti
HONORABLE MENTION (alphabetical)
6 1/2  Dollars: A WASP Girl's Quest for Ubuntu by Lila Dupree
A Bush House by Larry G. Fortin
A Community of Saints by Shawn Erker
Child of Lions by Jared Delaney
Conquerers by Rena Goldstein
Deserter by Daniel Thau-Eleff
Escape by David Cintron
Hibernation by Conor LaRocque
Late to the Riots by Helen Valenta
Loss Share by Beth Blair
Onaje by Robert R. Bowie, Jr.
Out of Print by Danielle Nusbaum
Primary Feathers by Rita Cox
Sundown in Beaver Creek by Larry G. Fortin
The Last Man by Michael Spiegel
The Myth of the Kamikaze Geisha by Michael Cooney
Toss of the Dice by David Saffan
TRANS-formation by triangle productions!
We Will Make it Through by Jenn Weatherall
Where is Everybody? by Kevin Daly
PLAY LOG LINES
2017 FIRST PLACE: 
O Do Not Love Too Long by Richard Molloy

In contemporary London, two aging, eccentric Irish immigrants, both haunted by the ghosts of the past and the present, seek redemption for their many sins and failures.

2017 SECOND PLACE:
Street Poet by Caleb Corkery

Street Poet, a black man who captures the “keeping it real” effect of popular spoken word artists, narrates the experience of a white poet teaching at an inner-city, predominantly African American high school.  Though amused and disgusted observing a white man exploring the black city, Street Poet ends up being defined through the white poet’s story.

2017 THIRD PLACE:
Governor Kath by Cile Pace

When the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court dies, Governor Kath puts her name in for the Chief Justice appointment.  Conflict ensues when Kath’s old boss and nemesis, a sitting Justice, puts himself forward for the spot while supporting Kath’s husband to fill his vacancy.

2017 FOURTH PLACE:
The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah  Dyer & Mary Wilkinson

Two seemingly different women form an extraordinary and enduring friendship that carries them through domestic violence, murder, and prison to unrecognized goals of independence and redemption.   

2017 FIFTH PLACE:
​Heathen Hill by Jason Forbach

Set in the very near future in an ever expanding Alt-America, six men in an internment camp for Homosexuals turn toward creativity, art and truth as a way to survive.  As the political environment becomes more and more hostile, the play examines the retaliative strength found through expression.  
UPDATES FOR 2017 WINNERS
O Do Not Love Too Long received a February 2017 reading at the Irish Theatre of Chicago, directed by Carolyn Kruse

O Do Not Love Too Long was 
Shortlisted, King’s Cross New Writing Award 2016

O Do Not Love Too Long was Shortlisted, Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize 2015

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Street Poet received a March 2018 reading at the Temple bar in Lancaster, PA, produced by the Lancaster Dramatists Platform and directed by Kelsey Pollard.

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The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer and Mary Wilkinson 
received an April 2017 stage reading produced by the Playwrights Local of Cleveland OH, at the Creative Space at Waterloo Arts, directed by Nick Hrutkay.

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