2021 ScreenCraft Stage Play Writing Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 6, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Stage Play Writing Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on October 27th here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 'Til Death Do Us Part | Katerina Bakolias |
| 36th Street Blues | Jasmine Williams |
| 4RW | Michael Proft & Diane Leaity |
| A Wake in Ma'am Cross | Whitney Hamilton |
| Addendum | Federico Sanna |
| Agathe | Angela J. Davis |
| Aquarium Play | Stephen Wrobleski |
| As Dreams Are Made On | Mike Folie |
| At The Broken Places | Paul Coleman |
| Bad Hearts | Mike Bencivenga |
| Bare Ruined Choirs | Dylan and Derrick Smith |
| Barkadoodle, or Can Lillian Finsterwald Save the Galaxy | Michael Wayne |
| Before the Fall | Patrick Hamilton |
| Broken | Aaron Braxton |
| Bufflehead Bay | Sheila Rinear |
| Clay's Place: Inside My Blue Mind | Angela Wilson |
| Color Timer | Michael Long |
| Craig Fox Had a Wife | Beverly Allen |
| Cuddle Buddy | Noah Wilson |
| Culture Night | Amanda Andrei |
| Dead Dads | Gregory Phelan |
| Dead Soldiers | Garison Piatt |
| Death Row | Calhoun Cornwell |
| Decolonise | Lloyd Evans |
| Dogs | Tom Messner |
| Earth - A Children's Story for Adults | Kashyap Raja |
| Elder Ted | Jake Arky |
| Eleanor Crane | Alex MacDonald |
| Even When The World Burns, I Am Still With You | Elizabeth Shannon |
| Evening | Michael Raver |
| Fat Muslim Girls | Ken Kaissar |
| Fateville | Gary Blackwood |
| Fifteen Hundred | Gloria Majule |
| Fomo | Harold Katkov |
| Forger | Simon Bowler |
| Fractured Moonlight | Carrie Printz |
| Frankenstein: Death of the Monster | Brian Laughran |
| Future Tripping | Brian Gene White |
| Gold Paint | Morey Norkin |
| He Said | Brandon Baer & Garrett Baer |
| Heartbeat | Lee Aubry |
| Heartland | Louis Reyes McWilliams |
| Her Majesty | Carmela Corbett |
| House Church | Brandon Ogborn |
| Human Nature | Dan Morra |
| In One's Lane | Sean Ryan |
| Josefina Jordan, Junior Underwater Explorer and the Mystery of the Plastic Fish | Daniel Stone |
| Judy Speaks: Gumm's Last Tape | Mary Birdsong |
| Just the Melody | Laura Winters |
| Keepin' it Holy | Leah Onuoha |
| Lady Capulet | Melissa Bell |
| Little Rock | Alice Charles |
| Living Situation | Samantha Shane |
| Loretta the Yodeling Cowgirl | Vita Morales |
| Lost Causes | Andrea Carey |
| Lost Girls | Joshua Brewer |
| Many Unknown Friends | Eric Miller |
| Marcus & Patty at the End of the World | Casey O'Neil |
| Memoirs of a Gun | Clint Hooper |
| Mother, I Could Kill You | Barbara Silverstone |
| My Dinner With Andrea | Susan Lambert Hatem |
| Mynx & Savage | Rebecca ONeill |
| Neighborly | Carla Sosenko |
| Net of Worth | Carlyn Flint |
| Night Moths on the Wing | Kimberly Kalaja |
| Noblesse Oblige | Kieran Angelini |
| Nosejob | Susan Rabin |
| On the Border | Howard Waxman |
| On Your Shoulder | Tristen Tarp |
| One-Adam-Twelve | Jeremy Grimmer |
| Paris Syndrome | Ross Buran |
| Penelope's War | Sunny Ellis & Marc Ellis |
| Poetry | Estelle Bajou |
| Pulse of the City | Courtney Dominique Comer |
| Putzi's Progress | A.E.O. Goldman |
| Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Blue Dahlia | Tommy Gushue |
| Reap The Grove | Caity-Shea Violette |
| ReGeneration: The Tucson Story | Jana Segal-Stormont |
| Room Service | Ilene Fischer |
| Runners Telephone | Casey Halleck |
| Rutherford Scattering | Mark Alvarado |
| Saddles in the Rain | Pam Bustin |
| Sage | Darrin Ingram |
| Sanctuary | Darryl Wimberley |
| Sk8er Boiz | Christopher Sullivan |
| Solid Rock Hard Golden Candy Classics and So Much More | John McCloskey |
| Sophia Hayden Deserves Better | Stephanie Walker |
| Stalled | Liesl Wilke & Andy Marsh |
| Stealing the Globe | Deborah Mulhall |
| Stowaway | Barbara Marsh |
| Succulents: The Art of Adulting OR Reasons I Am A Terrible Roommate | Leah Barsanti |
| Talk of the Town | Mike Bencivenga |
| The Angel Riots, bloody and out of love | Alexander Gallimore |
| The Bikers | Sean Mahoney |
| The Clipper | Maryanne Melloan Woods |
| The Demand of Avarice | Matthew McLachlan |
| The Education of Addy Jiménez | Lynea Diaz-Hagan |
| The Extractionist | Michaela Jeffery |
| The First to Know | Jessica Abrams |
| The Flawed Play | Rodney Hicks |
| The Forgotten | Beau Bridge |
| The Group | Richard Peng |
| The Harmony of a Tender Match Among Plenty of Fishes | Evan Cleaver |
| The Impossible Task of Today | Jeff Bower |
| The Legend of Bonny Anne | Chandler Patton |
| The Maginot Line | Emmett Loverde |
| The Masher | Grace Jasmine |
| The Munitionette | Kathleen Rinaldi |
| The Pass | Aaron Roberts |
| The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog | Thomas Yungerberg |
| The River Rises | John Espinal |
| The Rose's Name | Sean Murphy |
| The Savage Queen | Edgar Chisholm |
| The Sisterhood of the Rings | Elizabeth Bickel |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| The Women Decide | Mere Spitzmiller |
| The Write Off | Sadhbh Walshe |
| The Yellow Sign | Chris Poor |
| These and Those | Ruth Geye |
| Those Who Walk the Earth Fairy Tales: The Boy in Search of a Note | Mary Stevens |
| Three Women in a Wildfire | Julianne Jigour |
| Touching People | Felicity Carpenter |
| Triggered | John Norton |
| Triumvirate- Glory, Sacrifice and Peace | Kate Hawkes |
| True Kristian | Karen Saari |
| True North: A Magical New Holiday Musical | Holly Reed & Kelvin Reed |
| Umbra | Kathryn Evans |
| Under the Orchid Moon | Margaret Lepera |
| Us and Them | Ben Kawaller |
| Vanishing Point | Matt Harry |
| Veterans Day | Phyllis Hollenbeck |
| Void | Katelynn Kenney |
| Waiting | Erin Grogan |
| Warmth in the Palace of Ice and Snow | Joshua Brewer |
| We are Family | Kevin Longfield |
| Welcome to the Blue Swan | Paris Crayton III |
| Woody and Mia | Tom Sime |
| Zen & the Art of Profit | Luke Sorge |
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