2020 ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 21, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| A Beautiful Day - 20 Years Later | Colette Keen |
| A Muslim in the Midst | Anand Rao |
| A Remarkable Hut Near Coropuna | Paul Major |
| A Storm Came Up | Kristy Meanor |
| A Very Great Mischief | Harriet O'Neill |
| A Visitor's Pass on The Virgin Mary | Jacqueline Pereda |
| Acre of Bones | Gene Hobbs |
| Adverse Effects | Taylor Gruenloh |
| All the Dying Voices | Reginald Edmund |
| An Ocean In My Soul | Charise Sowells |
| Another Round | J. Adam Russell |
| Arcade | Madeline Mahrer |
| Are You Sure? Experiences of a Gay Foster Youth | Zachary Clein |
| As She Fades | Isaac Bañuelos |
| Big Dry Run | Briana Cox |
| Billie: This Ain't No Billie Jean King Story | Billie King |
| Birds of East Africa | Wendy Dann |
| Birthday Club | Phil Olson |
| Blood Boundary | Vicki Mooney |
| Body and Blood | Shannon TL Kearns |
| Bondage | Star Finch |
| Bottom Lip (moral waiver) | Douglas Gearhart |
| Castles in the Air | Jamie Ramsburg |
| Circles of Hell | Joseph Tamborello |
| Collegeburg, USA: The True Story of a
Town in Crisis in the Advent of a Racist Regime, or Privileged, or Supreme (We Are Going to Have This Conversation) |
Kerri Kochanski |
| Confidential Informant | Charlie Lyons |
| Dandelions | Tina Fakhrid-Deen |
| Dead Lawyers | George Larkin |
| Departure | Simran Bal |
| Desert Oasis Garden Club | Gabino Cabanilla |
| Doubt That the Stars Are Fire | Preston Fox |
| Drinking In the Park | Dan Ross |
| Eleanor Crane | Alex MacDonald |
| Euthanasia - Almost a Musical | Gail Parent & Stacy Sherman |
| Everything is Fine | Alex Brightman |
| Fairville | Steve Apostolina |
| Flying Bird's Diary - A Play in Three Acts | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Follow The Bear | Cole Friedman |
| Gone | Lynne Sherbondy |
| Gym Rats | Howard Harband |
| Hawk and Wallace | Hannah Chapman |
| Heirlooms | Yolanda Wilkinson |
| Hot Tragic Dead Thing | Ashley Rose Wellman |
| How We Bleed | Mario Valdivieso |
| I Know It Is The Moon | Kirsten Benjamin |
| Insurgentes | Jonathan Cook |
| Is Not That Strange? | Brian White |
| July Don't Cry | Adam Beshara |
| Kangaroo | M Gott |
| Kudzu 2012 | Tracy Baxter |
| Les Museums | Manning Jordan |
| Levi Clears Out | Ronald Gephart |
| Life of the Party | Mirek Gosney |
| Lifeline | Robert Axelrod |
| Midnight Waltzes | Leslie Liautaud |
| Moondog's Progress | Dan Flanigan |
| My 4 Bodies | Patricia Fox |
| Near-Death Experiences | Kuros Charney |
| Night Moths on the Wing | Kimberly Kalaja |
| Off Track | James Comtois |
| One Good Tree | Robert Barnett |
| Orson at the Boar's-Head | Robert Montgomery |
| Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre
On The Air in The War of the Worlds by HG Wells |
Steven Boltz & Amy Hollow |
| Ouija | Laura Danilov |
| Palisade Peaches | Jacob Combs |
| Paris Syndrome | Ross Buran |
| Pearl | Sonhara Eastman |
| Processing | Narineh Tahmasebian |
| Projector | Vernon Paul |
| Purple Sins | Pierce McDonough |
| Red Ink | Steven Morris |
| Red Tar | Morgan Smalley |
| Restitution | Ryan Locke |
| Saudades | Fernando Segall |
| Schooled | Lisa Lewis |
| Sefarad in America | David Saffan |
| Sequence | Arun Lakra |
| She's Dead! | Matthew Lucas |
| SNUC | Mike DiSalvo |
| Someone With Nerve | Noah Keeling |
| Stuck | Ellen Doyle |
| The Blues in Your Whites | Niv Elbaz |
| The Convict and The Kids | Peter Ritt |
| The Devil's Pact | Simon Bowler |
| The Dinner | Lawrence Bergman |
| The Enemy of the State | Simon Bowler |
| The Fall | Susan Ferrara |
| The Fat Sergeant | Douglas Gearhart |
| The Gods | Robert Bowman |
| The Great Comic Book War of 1954 | Noah Wilson |
| The Havana Orthodoxy | Vita Morales |
| The High Cost of Heating | Craig Thornton |
| The Humanist | Kuros Charney |
| The Inferno | Chris Sherman |
| The Mark | Jillian Leff |
| The Messy Antigone Project | Tim Errickson |
| The Night Climber | Joshua Rebell |
| The Obstacles | Gabriel Choi |
| The One-Fifth | Lisa Lewis |
| The Ordeal of Water | Stephanie Walker |
| The Other Way Around | Nathan Ross Freeman |
| The Smuggler | Ronan Noone |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| The Train is Coming and There's Nothing We Can Do to Stop It | Varun Bhuchar |
| The Turkey Farm | Chris Wellard |
| The Victims | Kyle C. Mumford |
| The Western Male | Enzo Gattuccio |
| The Window | Andre Fuad - Degas |
| Tires of a Dream | Nicholas Gutierrez |
| Tracy Jones | Stephen Kaplan |
| Tulips From Theodore | Georgia Merdinger |
| Umbra | Kathryn Evans |
| Unfinished Business | Susan and Doug Decatur |
| Unnatural | David Tichauer |
| Warmth in the Palace of Ice and Snow | Joshua Brewer |
| Wedding Secrets | Joe Starzyk |
| Where the Lovelight Gleams | Kyle McCloskey |
| Who Are We? | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| Wicked Smaht | Kevin Scott Chess |
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