Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on November 16, 2018
Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the inaugural ScreenCraft Stage Play competition. These impressive projects written for the stage were selected from nearly 700 entries. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
This year's jury is comprised of two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, managers at Kaplan/Perone Entertainment and The Gotham Group, the Art Director for The Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, and an Emerging Playwright and Award-winning writer on OWN's Queen Sugar.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the quarterfinalists:
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9/10 |
Richard Willett |
| A Champagne Glass in the Moonlight | John Schugard |
| A Field Gide to the Amazon | Phoebe Eaton |
| A Kind of Marriage | Charles Leipart |
| A Night in Jerusalem | Marc Aronoff |
| A Pound of Flesh | Kenneth Butler |
| A Shvitz in Hell | Paddy O'Carroll |
| A Step Beyond the Rain | Merridith Allen |
| A SUMMER WITHOUT JOSEPHINE | Emanuel Ruggeri |
| A Windmill in Chinatown | Mike McGee |
| Afterlife | Faizah Tiffany Adjepong |
| All That Remains | Ursula Jordaan |
| And They Call it Puppet Love | Kayla Mancuso |
| Apples and Tangerines | Erica Bennett |
| Awakening Ocean | Barbara Baker |
| Bad Hearts | Mike Bencivenga |
| Badge of the Love Deputy | Janet Burnham |
| BAEv2.0 | Michael Lee |
| Beach Break | Joanna Pickering |
| Best Friend | Christopher Sullivan |
| Beyond the Glass | Francis DiClemente |
| Birdy | Casey Adler |
| Birthday Pie | Arthur Wooten |
| Black Hearts & Hungry Bears | Steve Shear |
| Bloody Kansas | Jeff Bergquist |
| Bordeline | Kelli McNeil |
| Boundaries | Morgan English |
| Boy About Ten | Jon Tuttle |
| Broken Heart Land | Vicki Mooney |
| Butterflies Don't Die | Theresa Sailes |
| Case Officer | Lou Yang |
| Castle on the Farm | Alaina Baskerville-Bridges |
| Children of Camelot | Nakisa Aschtiani |
| Chrysalis | J.D. Volk |
| Company Christmas | Diana Woody |
| Convicted | Riley Thomas |
| Crawling From the Wreckage | Kim Curlee |
| Cross Words | Scott Gibson |
| Curved | Kristin Shepherd |
| Dance Bright Gods | Ben Collum |
| Dark Am I, Yet Lovely | Becky MacDormand |
| Diamond Girl | Bruce Calhoun |
| Dionysus on the Down Low | Michael Proft |
| Disposable Necessities | Neil McGowan |
| Djarum Vanilla | Cary Simowitz |
| Dogmai | Jonathan Vick |
| Dolphin Study | Tom Senning |
| Dr. Arthur Goldman's Birthday Party | William Ludel |
| Driver's Ed | CM Webb |
| Drone | Norman Mathews |
| Eco Village | Phoebe Nir |
| Elephant | David Gow |
| Embers of Tent City | Tita Anntares |
| Familiar Strangers | Nina Joshi Ramsey |
| First, Do No Harm | J. Thalia Cunningham |
| Flame Broiled, or the ugly play | Rodney Hicks |
| Freak Show | Jordan Beswick |
| Free Free Free Free | Haleh Roshan |
| Free Tom Mooney | Margaret Lynch |
| Freudian Sip | Nicholas Camacho |
| From Out Beyond My Shame | Shawn Nabors |
| Geriatric | Marisa Wexler |
| Go Be Joan | Nathaniel Adams |
| Hank & Jim Build a Plane | David Gregory |
| How to be an Immigeant | Gillian Royes |
| How Will We Live Tomorrow? | Paul Fallon |
| I Shot Mussolini | Alice Bishop |
| In a Clearing | Karen Saari |
| In The Winter of Pretty | Kristeen Tadich |
| Indigo Rising | Justin Smith |
| Invasions and Penetrations | Mike Solomonson |
| Joint Account | Laurence Klavan |
| Joy After The Pain | Ayasha Tripp |
| Just Like Stealing | Douglas Gearhart |
| Karma | Michelle Morgan |
| Kill All Politicians | Thomas Yungerberg |
| King Lesbian | Adi Eshman |
| La Casa Azul | Gregory Hancock |
| La Mujer Barbuda | Cristina Luzarraga |
| Lean Age | Nicholas Guerreiro |
| Light of the Blues | Jisoo Yoon |
| Like Forever | Merridith Allen |
| Lincoln 2020 | Holiday Kinard |
| Lineage | Anne Flanagan |
| Look Up, or Why We Don't Go Camping Anymore | Hannah Vaughn |
| Losing My Religion (in 140 Characters or Less) | Hannah Langley |
| Manilamen | Jeff Bergquist |
| Marianas Trench | Scott Sickles |
| Metadata | Amy Crider |
| Metta Physics, or The Great Flash | Victoria Moyer |
| Mine & Yours | Carolyn Kras |
| Misconduct | Nalsey Tinberg |
| Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky | Dianne Nora |
| Monsters | Ian Fletcher |
| Mr. Boom | Jake Fallon |
| Murder In Little Italy | Sebastian Milito |
| Mysterious Ecstasy of the Lonely Business Traveler | Scott McCrea |
| Myth Of The Ostrich | Matt Murray |
| New Wave | David Hudacek |
| Nickie and the Dragon | Elixeo Flores |
| North Avenue | Christopher Kess |
| Nothing But the Truth | Eve Lederman |
| Nowhere Man | Rob Dames |
| O | George Schwimmer |
| Passionfruit | Jacob Menke |
| Petie | Lori Fischer |
| Pharaoh | Paul Wootton |
| Piece n' Harmony | Robert Small |
| Quilters of Gee's Bend | Betty K Bynum |
| Rain on Fire | Karen Saari |
| Rebound | Warren Glover |
| Reflections | Dominic Witkop |
| Revelations: A Play on Words | Stan Werse |
| Right In Front Of Us | Mary Ruth Clarke |
| Roadkill | Leah Sarbib |
| Salon of '77 | Sophie Hood |
| Salvatori | Sindy McKay |
| Setting Sun | Andre Thierry |
| She's Not There | Ali MacLean |
| Ship | Douglas Williams |
| Signature Photo | Michael Bucklin |
| Silence and the Machine | Liam Salmon |
| Silk Purse Project | Ward Kay |
| Some Type of Ecstasy | Khari Wyatt |
| Spanish Nuts! | Angela J. Davis |
| Spinning You Home | Sally Stubbs |
| Sputnik: A Love Story | Lowell Williams |
| Sraddha | Ari Abraham |
| Starcrossed | Nevin Millan |
| Stripped | Colleen O'Doherty |
| Successsion | Charles White |
| TENDER | David Preece |
| Tennis Lessons | Peter Gunter |
| Terms of Use | Patrick Brennan |
| The Apeman of Manhattan | Rosalyn Rosen |
| The Audit | Lynda Crawford |
| The Battles of Richmond Hill | Penny Jackson |
| The Best Thing We Do | Max Berry |
| The Blizzard: A Rehabilitation of THE TEMPEST | Richard Morell |
| The Bronte Girls, Part I: Ghosts and Attraction | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
| The Bronte Girls, Part II: Monsters and Etiquette | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
| The Bronte Girls, Part III: Gods and Correspondence | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
| The Cheapest Hope in Town | Quintin Peterson |
| The Coat of Looking On | Dianne Cutlack |
| The Crying Tree | Peter Gunter |
| The Day After My Suicide | Cary Wong |
| The Diagonal Trilogy | Vita Morales |
| The Dig Sites | Mark Alvarado |
| The Dog Lives In The End | Jake Arky |
| The Egg | David Boito |
| The Fixer | Susan Pak |
| The Forgotten Place | Jeff Locker |
| The Fred Allen Show | Rory Lance |
| The Friendzone | Ian Fletcher |
| The Garbologists | Lindsay Joelle |
| The Ghost of Jimmy Dean | Stephen Wright |
| The Gods of the Ozarks | Matthew Kelly |
| The Haze | Heather Marlowe |
| The Jewel in the Manuscript | Rosemary Zibart |
| The Judas Sheep | Jeff Boam |
| The Last Comrade | Jack Raymond |
| The Lavender Mafia | Luke Yankee |
| The Lighthouse | David Boito |
| The Lost Virginity Tour | Cricket Daniel |
| The Mapmakers Lines are Crooked | Robert Gardner |
| The Men of Las Charcas | Carlos Rojas |
| The Reckoning | Kimba Henderson |
| The Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will | JIm Shankman |
| The Spanish Prayer Book | Angela J. Davis |
| The Sunset Gazette | Kim Canedy |
| The Torso | Paige Esterly |
| The Trial | Simon Bowler |
| The Value | Nicholas Dunn |
| The Vultures | Mark Ridge |
| The White Dress | Roger Mason |
| Third Quarter | Michelle Howe |
| Time Traveler (Please Don't @*ck Anyone Else While I'm Gone) | Douglas Gearhart |
| Tuesday Morning Has No Doors | John Schugard |
| Two Plus Two Plus One | Jaye Hansin |
| Unbound | Steve Apostolina |
| Unburied | Rebecca Norris |
| Wanda Johnson and the Kingdom of Hair | Janet Burnham |
| We Are The Futurists! | Jeffrey Bracco |
| Welcome Home | Stephen Brown |
| Where Fairy Tales Live? | Olga Verasen |
| Where's Helen? | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Woman Descending a Staircase | Phoebe Eaton |
| World War < 3 | Harrison Bryan |
| World's End | Michael McGoldrick |
| Worms | Laura Leininger-Campbell |
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