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2020 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 bring new awareness to others!  

May you and your loved ones be safe through this pandemic.  Stay healthy, stage engaged with the world as much as possible, let love in, and write from the heart about these unique times and the stories that are unfolding before your eyes!


FIRST PLACE
Brothers by Paul Mohrbacher 

​FINALISTS (alphabetical)

A Night in Jerusalem by Marc Aronoff
Dead Dads by Gregory Phelan  
Mary Bailey’s Building and Loan by Karen Lothan
Open Mic Poetry Slam Meet Beat Bobby Slay by Oscar Sanders
Scrubbed by Morna Young
The Good One by Amy Hanson     


HONORABLE MENTION (alphabetical)
Above the Fold by Julie Zaffarano
As Happy as God in France by Julia Pascal
Be It Ever So Humble by Dan Borengasser
Burning House by Joseph Nelms
Craig Fox Had a Wife by Beverly Allen
Down from the Mountain by Ivan Taub  
Fairville by Steve Apostolina   
Goods and Effects by Alvin Schnupp
Humphrey-Johnson, Part 1 by Robert Kehew
I Don’t Have a Gun Stop Shooting by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Inversion: The Function of an Autistic Mind by Aditya Putcha
In Shelter by Jane Graille
Lyndon Agonistes by Andrew P. Mayo
Main Chance by Barry Weinberg
Moon Drops
​       by Domnica Radulescu, Nikaury Rodriguez, Carol Campbell
Nickie and the Dragon by Elixeo Flores
Save the Man by Kevin Stuart Brodie
Serve and Protect by Sissy Van Dyke
Teenagers in Love by Sean O’Connor
The Devil’s Pact by Simon Bowler
The Great Betrayal by Ken Straus
The New Fuck You by Paul Hoan Zeidler
The Tiger Play by Anne Phelan
There’s Been an Accident by Jillian Bevilacqua
Trade with Klan by Donald E. Baker
Transisters by Jay Huling
Transitions by Ronald Davies
Warriors by Tyler Powell


PLAY LOG LINE
2020 FIRST PLACE:

Brothers by Paul Mohrbacher 
Two estranged brothers in their 60s circle each other as they fend off any hint of reconciliation.  Then they meet a couple of intrepid interlopers who get in the ring with them.
UPDATES FOR 2020 WINNERS
Brothers by Paul Mohrbacher 
The stage play was adapted from Paul Mohrbacher's novel - Brothers - published in 2014.

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