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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 (See Log Line Below) SECOND PLACE Madness by George Steitz (See Log Line Below) THIRD PLACE The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer & Mary Wilkinson (See Log Line Below) 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 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 PLAY LOG LINES 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
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) * * * * * * * * 
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. * * * * * * * *
Cash Cows by Anthony Filorentino was performed Sept 26, 2018 as part of Chicago's Artemisia Theater's Fall Play Festival. * * * * * * * * 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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Thieves Road was chosen Stageplay Winner by the 2011 Moondance International Film Festival. |
