2019 WINNERS Congratulations to the Winner, 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 new awareness to others!
FIRST PLACE Drone by Norman Mathews
FINALISTS (alphabetical) Enemy of the State by Simon Bowler Killing Cora by Cecile Pace The Unexpected Advocate by Deborah Dyer and Mary Wilkinson To Protect the Poets by John Doble Yesterday Iran/Today Iraq by LS Goldberg
HONORABLE MENTION (alphabetical) A Dream of Evil by David Miller Bequest to the Nation by George Hickenlooper Cooper’s War: A Ghost Story by Robert Menna Detroit Blues by Patrice Cassedy Disenchanted by Shelley Segal Family by Numbers by Arianna Rose Forger by Simon Bowler Loving Wendy by Katerine Zaniboni Our Father’s House by Ken Kaye The Birthday Lottery by Richard Fouts
PLAY LOG LINES 2019 FIRST PLACE: Drone by Norman Mathews What are the moral and social consequences of America's drone program? A drone pilot discovers that war by long distance is devastating not only to the victims but also to himself and his family.
UPDATES FOR 2019 WINNERS
Drone by Norman Mathews Reading date for Drone TBD
Congratulations to Norman Mathews for his autobiography: The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater
Born in the wrong town, the wrong era, and with the wrong name, Norman Mathews was forced to conjure a more enticing, if imaginary, world to better navigate the perils of childhood. From the ashes of near-calamity rose the existence Norman Mathews always dreamed of, eventually becoming a Broadway and film dancer working with Barbra Streisand, Gene Kelly, Dorothy Lamour, and Michael Bennett. His star was on a consistent upward trajectory. But an injury cut short his career as a performer and so he reinvented himself as a pianist, composer, creating award-winning works for the concert stage, for Tony-Award winners, and for opera luminaries. This passionate and inspirational autobiography is a paean to all late-bloomers - proof that no matter how many wrong cards you are dealt, it's possible, with hope and tenacity, to come up with a winning hand.
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.