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2018 WINNERS

​2018 was another year of receiving strong, poignant scripts.  Congratulations to the Winners and to the Finalists and  playwrights whose scripts received Honorable Mention.  Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to writing scripts that help change lives and enlighten others!  

FIRST PLACE
Muse by Tom Alan Robbins
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SECOND PLACE
Madness by George Steitz
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THIRD PLACE

The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer & Mary Wilkinson
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FINALISTS (alphabetical)
Birthmark by Steve Orlov
Bless Me, Father by John Adams
Cash Cows by Anthony Fiorentino
d-baby by Jane Louise Cafarella 
DeliKateSSen by Richard Atkins
Life Aint Fair by Shelley Chester 
Marching On by Margaret Veach 
Signature Photo by Michael Bucklin
The Choice by Roger Walker
The Dance by Joseph DeGise II 
The Hugger-Mugger Murders by Kirk McGee

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HONORABLE MENTION (alphabetical)
Alejandra's Journey by Siobhan Fitzpatrick
Benedict Arnold by Douglas Huff
Black Matter by John Donahue 
Break Free by Max Bush
Chains of Spanish Moss by Kelsey Wartelle
Enemy of the State by Simon Bowler
Family Night by Cassandra Medley
Fish by Patricia Pfeiffer
Freak Up the Street by Billy Robinson 
God’s Necklace by Morgan Trant Kinnally
I am Charlie by David Blackman
Indian School by Esther Almazan
Madame Andrèe by Andrew Sarewitz 
She Sleeps in Beauty by Stephen Bellwood 
Stoned, Stupid, & Stuck by Natalia Regalia-Affinito 
That Last Shot in the Dark by Gavion E. Chandler
The Thieves Road by HW Freedman 
The Trouble Is by Christopher Babson
Veils of Justice by Tita Anntares
Your Own Sons by Stephen Near 


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2018 FIRST PLACE:
Muse by Tom Alan Robbins

Famed painter Leonard Paul has hired a young model/aspiring artist to pose for a series of figure studies. Where is the intersection between sexual attraction and artistic inspiration?
When does the power dynamic of artist and model tip into that of stalker and prey?


2018 SECOND PLACE:
Madness by George Steitz

A curious stranger seems to have lost all sense of time and place when he enters a jam & tea shop and appears to tumble down a rabbit hole from which there is no escape. His terrifying memory of a violent argument with his wife that morning leads him to believe he’s falling into madness.

2018 THIRD PLACE:
The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer & Mary Wilkinson
Two women, seemingly different, form an extraordinary and enduring friendship that carries them through domestic violence, murder, and prison to unrecognized goals of independence and redemption.
UPDATES FOR 2018 WINNERS
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READING OF 2018 CONTEST WINNING SCRIPT: 
MUSE by Tom Alan Robbins
May 14, 2019 
Playroom Theater
151 West 46th St, NYC
In the heart of Broadway's Theater District

With Dakin Matthews (Currently in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway) and Helen Cespedes) 

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Birthmark by Steve Orlov was produced at MAI Centere in a production from the Teesri Duniya Theater in Montreal
​Nov 3 - Nov 18, 2018.


Birthmark by Steve Orlov had a staged reading at InfinitiTheatre in Montreal on Sept 15, 2016.

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Cash Cows by Anthony Filorentino was performed Sept 26, 2018 as part of Chicago's Artemisia Theater's Fall Play Festival.

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The Unexpected Advocate received an April 2017 stage reading produced by the Playwrights Local of Cleveland OH, at the Creative Space, directed by Nick Hrutkay.

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  DeliKateSSen by Richard Atkins
  was produced in the Center for
  Performing Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
  Jan 18 - Jan 27, 2019.

  DeliKateSSen by Richard Atkins
  was produced at Centre Stage A
  in Greenville, South Carolina
​  May 2017.


  DeliKateSSen by Richard Atkins
  was produced at the Adobe
  Theater in Albuquerque, New
  Mexico, April 3 - April 26, 2016.

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​The Dance
by Joseph DeGise II
A Dramatic Reading at
The Bhakti Center, NYC
February 17, 2018
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Thieves Road was chosen Stageplay Winner by the 2011 Moondance International Film Festival.
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