2020 ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on September 30, 2020
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists 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!
All scripts are read "blind" with authors' names invisible to the readers during the first and second rounds of the evaluation process. We verify eligibility of submissions and writers in the finalist round and carry over a few extra writers in each round in case any are disqualified at the finalist stage.
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| (c) Sullivan: The Place Where People Come to Die | Luke Krueger |
| #NWORD | Christian Elder |
| 2051 Marengo | Shia Labeouf |
| 2060 Korean Play (or His Headband) | Nayoung Jin |
| 400 Horses | Mackenzie Yeager |
| 60 Yards North of Roanoke | Greg Harrison Davis |
| A Beautiful Day - 20 Years Later | Colette Keen |
| A Dead's Hope | Mikhail Wageh |
| A Far Shore | Douglas Huff |
| A Look, The Book and a Reason | Donna Clovis |
| A Muslim in the Midst | Anand Rao |
| A Remarkable Hut Near Coropuna | Paul Major |
| A Safe House in North Cork | Tim Connery |
| 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 |
| Against All Enemies | Roy Griffis |
| All The Dying Voices | Reginald Edmund |
| An Ocean In My Soul | Charise Sowells |
| And . . . Again | Dylan Brody |
| Another Round | J. Adam Russell |
| Arcade | Madeline Mahrer |
| Are You Sure? Experiences of a Gay Foster Youth | Zachary Clein |
| As She Fades | Isaac Bañuelos |
| Ashes of Light | Marco Antonio Rodriguez |
| At Play in the Fields of the Hippos | Colette Keen |
| At the Battlefront | Gursimrat Kaur |
| Atascadero | Roman Jimenez |
| Back in the Day | Harold Ellis Clark |
| Bad in Bed (A Fairy Tale) | Karen Saari |
| Banned | Iman Ahmed |
| Beth | Alex Lin |
| 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 |
| Blinders | Robert McCain |
| Bliss Investigations | Mike Buckley |
| Blood Boundary | Vicki Mooney |
| Body and Blood | Shannon TL Kearns |
| Bondage | Star Finch |
| Bottom Lip (moral waiver) | Douglas Gearhart |
| Brains of a Feather | Angelo Campos |
| Bufflehead Bay | Sheila Rinear |
| Castles in the Air | Jamie Ramsburg |
| Caught Dreaming | Ryan Dancho |
| Circles of Hell | Joseph Tamborello |
| CNTL+ALT(RIGHT)+DEL | Sheldon Shaw |
| 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 |
| CommonWealth: A Play Set in Massachusetts | Anastasia Rutkowski & Niki Hatzidis |
| Confidential Informant | Charlie Lyons |
| Consider the Ravens | Brian Murtagh |
| Conundrum - A Prisoner's Tale in One Act | Chris Ferretti |
| Craig Fox Had a Wife | Beverly Allen |
| Cruise of the Elysium | Charles Conaway & Dave Schmeling |
| Crybaby | Henrietta Steventon |
| Cubamor | James Sasser |
| Culture Shock | Gloria Majule |
| Dandelions | Tina Fakhrid-Deen |
| Dead Dads | Gregory Phelan |
| dead lawyers | George Larkin |
| Dearly Departed | Alexandra Wintermute |
| Departure | Simran Bal |
| Desert Oasis Garden Club | Gabino Cabanilla |
| Die, Mr. Darcy, Die! | John Morogiello |
| Dirty Dirty | Amy Gijsbers van Wijk |
| Doubt That the Stars Are Fire | Preston Fox |
| Drinking In the Park | Dan Ross |
| Eleanor Crane | Alex MacDonald |
| Entitlement | Sugith Varughese |
| Eureka Moments | Dan Morra |
| Euthanasia - Almost a Musical | Gail Parent & Stacy Sherman |
| Everything is Fine | Alex Brightman |
| Faberge | Fareeda Ahmed |
| Face to the Sun | Alison Minami |
| Fairville | Steve Apostolina |
| Faithful Until Death | Jayla Creekmur |
| Fam | Sally lewis |
| Fish | Carolina Estrada-Navarrete |
| Flying Bird's Diary - A Play in Three Acts | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Follow The Bear | Cole Friedman |
| Foosball | Sean Czarnecki |
| Forger | Simon Bowler |
| Gilgamesh in Love | David Hill |
| God, Waving | Linda Whitmore |
| Going Solo | Robert Gately |
| Gone | Lynne Sherbondy |
| Grey | Kirsten Benjamin |
| Gym Rats | Howard Harband |
| Hannah Elias | Nathan Ross Freeman |
| Happy Place | Thomas Blakeley |
| Hawk and Wallace | Hannah Chapman |
| HEIRLOOMS | Yolanda Wilkinson |
| Her Majesty | Carmela Corbett |
| Hindu Times | Jaimini Jethwa |
| Homemade Takeaways | Ben Wilson |
| Honky-Tonk Parade | Rik Isensee |
| Hot Tragic Dead Thing | Ashley Rose Wellman |
| Household Name | Joshua MacNeal |
| How We Bleed | Mario Valdivieso |
| I Know It Is The Moon | Kirsten Benjamin |
| In Bed with the Bogeyman | Elizabeth Doyle |
| In The Woods | Nora Kirkpatrick |
| Indispensable | Douglas Allen |
| Insurgentes | Jonathan Cook |
| Invincible Summer | Kevin Brodie |
| Is Not That Strange? | Brian White |
| Josefina Jordan, Junior Underwater Explorer and the Mystery of the Plastic Fish | Daniel Stone |
| July Don't Cry | Adam Beshara |
| Kangaroo | M Gott |
| Khardal | Victor Lesniewski |
| KUDZU 2012 | Tracy Baxter |
| La Luz Roja | Peter Sonenstein |
| Lancer & Lace | James Bruns |
| Land of the Free | Diane Samuels |
| Last Rites | Randy Neale |
| Lena Passes By | Amanda Andrei |
| Les Museums | Manning Jordan |
| Levi Clears Out | Ronald Gephart |
| Life of the Party | Mirek Gosney |
| LifeBlood | Erik Nikander |
| Lifeline | Robert Axelrod |
| Like a Grey Echo | Mahasin D, Shamsiddeen |
| Lincoln's Father | William Lightfoot |
| Little Sugar | Sandra Cruze |
| Macho | Jamie Bogyo |
| Manny Pacquiao Punches the World But The Earth Doesnt Even Flinch | Mark Galarrita |
| Marilou & Marilyn | Melanie Klug |
| Meatloaf and Porn | Wendy Eiben |
| Mental | Andrew Rajan |
| Midnight Waltzes | Leslie Liautaud |
| Moondog's Progress | Dan Flanigan |
| Mourning After - Stage Play | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Musket and the Rat | Sammy Horowitz |
| My 4 Bodies | Patricia Fox |
| My Grandparents in the War | Matt Foss |
| Nadya | Christopher Byram |
| Near-Death Experiences | Kuros Charney |
| New Deli | Harley Adams |
| Night Moths on the Wing | Kimberly Kalaja |
| No Such Thing As Normal | Samantha Walker |
| Noblesse Oblige | Kieran Angelini |
| Now More Than Ever | Matt Thekkethala |
| Nuclear | Sean Fisher |
| O Días Apolýthike (Zeus Dethroned) | Jackson Compton |
| Off Track | James Comtois |
| One Good Tree | Robert Barnett |
| One Step Ahead of the Terrorists | James Eychaner |
| Only Words | Tara Norton, Ashley Norton |
| Orange Crush | Daniel Goldstein |
| 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 |
| Over Deenethorpe | Ashara Ann Hirsch |
| Palace of Secrets | Jon Fraser |
| Palisade Peaches | Jacob Combs |
| Paris Syndrome | Ross Buran |
| Pearl | Sonhara Eastman |
| Pirandello's Wife | Lynn Elliott |
| Planet Amnesia | John Catlin |
| Potshots | Stephanie Kline |
| Processing | Narineh Tahmasebian |
| Projector | Vernon Paul |
| Proud Flesh | Buck Bloomingdale & Madeleine Chalk |
| Punk Grandpa | Laura Scruggs |
| Purple Sins | Pierce McDonough |
| Rapture | Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris |
| Red Ink | Steven Morris |
| Red Tar | Morgan Smalley |
| Renegade. A Victoria Woodhull Play. | Pennie Diamond Quintana |
| Restitution | Ryan Locke |
| Restricted | Danyele Brickner |
| Return of the Incredible Shrinking Man! | Joe Carlisle |
| Right | Ben Siegler |
| Rio | Ilaria D'Elia |
| Rite of Passage | Izzy Salant |
| Saint(s of) Joan | Sharmini Kumar |
| Saudades | Fernando Segall |
| Schooled | Lisa Lewis |
| Screaming for Trains | Mitchell P Ganem |
| Second Coming | Andrew R Kelly |
| Sefarad in America | David Saffan |
| Seneca and the Soul of Nero | Marcia Eppich-Harris |
| Sequence | Arun Lakra |
| Shanidar | Chandler Hubbard |
| She's Dead! | Matthew Lucas |
| Shrines | Ashley Rose Wellman |
| Silver Alert | William Leavengood |
| Sit Down | Oliver Cane |
| SNUC | Mike DiSalvo |
| SoHo | Dimitri Neos |
| Someone With Nerve | Noah Keeling |
| Sources | Ellie Pyle |
| Spirit of the Molly Maguires: A Carbon County Legend | Genia Miller |
| Stay In My Corner | Rick Smith |
| Stuck | Ellen Doyle |
| Sweepstakes | Neil Golin |
| Tata's Manuscript | Irina Bragin |
| The Heist At Hvidore | James Rosenfield |
| The After | Erin Osgood |
| The Bastard Son of William Shakespeare | George Larkin |
| The Blues in Your Whites | Niv Elbaz |
| The Brawler, the Pickpocket, and Terrible Tim | Troy Sloan |
| The Burials of André Cailloux | Alan Freeman |
| The Choice | Roger Walker |
| The Cold Inside | Jennifer Rowland |
| The Color of the Sky | Miles Metcalf |
| 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 Followers | William Johnson |
| The Gods | Robert Bowman |
| The Gospel Of | Allison Theveny |
| The Great Comic Book War of 1954 | Noah Wilson |
| The Havana Orthodoxy | Vita Morales |
| The High Cost of Heating | Craig Thornton |
| The Honeywagon | Joy Goodwin |
| The Humanist | Kuros Charney |
| The Inferno | Chris Sherman |
| The Junkie Whisperer | Hayley Sigmon |
| The Last Chapter | Janice Corran |
| The Lilithine | Izzie Cava |
| The Living Room | Samantha Potochick |
| The Magical Tragical Surgical Theater of Dr. J. Marion Sims | Abraham Tetenbaum |
| The Man Who Laughs | Alicia Nyblade |
| The Mark | Jillian Leff |
| The Mermaid | Nayoung Jin |
| The Messy Antigone Project | Tim Errickson |
| The Mojave | Jaime Estepa |
| The Murder Play with Jack & Melissa | Matthew McLachlan |
| The New Fuck You | Paul Hoan Zeidler |
| The Night Climber | Joshua Rebell |
| The Obliterati | Kuros Charney |
| The Obstacles | Gabriel Choi |
| The One-Fifth | Lisa Lewis |
| The Ordeal of Water | Stephanie Walker |
| The Other Way Around | Nathan Ross Freeman |
| The People vs Frankenstein | Kevin Glover |
| The Precious Scars | Brian Farrey-Latz |
| The Re-Education of Fernando Morales | Justin P. Lopez |
| The Reveal | Katie Lee |
| The Smuggler | Ronan Noone |
| The Stars of Orion | Joe Cappello |
| The Thousandth Night | Carol Wolf |
| The Thug | Harley Adams |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| The Train is Coming and There's Nothing We Can Do to Stop It | Varun Bhuchar |
| The Truth About Santa | Michael Glover |
| The Turkey Farm | Chris Wellard |
| The Vacancy | Jeptha Storm |
| The Victims | Kyle C. Mumford |
| The Way It Works | Marsha Roberts |
| The Western Male | Enzo Gattuccio |
| The Window | Andre Fuad - Degas |
| The Wreck | Leslie Liautaud |
| The Yellow Sign | Chris Poor |
| This Way Out | Anne Rosenberg |
| Till It Stops | Sophie Max |
| Time After Time and Time Again | Madeline Puccioni |
| Tires of a Dream | Nicholas Gutierrez |
| To Protect the Poets | John Doble |
| Tracy Jones | Stephen Kaplan |
| Transisters | Jay Huling |
| Trojan Woman | Jim Dalglish |
| True To You | Nicky Denovan |
| Tucked Away | Joni Ravenna |
| Tulips From Theodore | Georgia Merdinger |
| Tweet Tweet | Andy Dispensa |
| Typical Plan | Michael McClung |
| Umbra | Kathryn Evans |
| Unfinished Business | Susan and Doug Decatur |
| Unnatural | David Tichauer |
| Veils of Justice | Tita Anntares |
| W. T. F. | Jennie Hawley |
| Waiting for Godínez | Daniel Olivas |
| Warmth in the Palace of Ice and Snow | Joshua Brewer |
| Wayward | Eric Berg |
| Wedding Secrets | Joe Starzyk |
| Welcome To Your Haven | Anastasia Barkow & Talitha Barkow |
| What Do They Call Me? | Bridgette Bilberry |
| What Holly Would Do | Jody Duncan |
| What It Was Turned Ollie Queer | Mike Tuohy, Jacq Marie Jack |
| What Manner of Child | John Braswell |
| Where the Lovelight Gleams | Kyle McCloskey |
| Who Are We? | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| Why We Have Book Club | Grace Parker |
| WICKED SMAHT - a full length Stage Play | Kevin Scott Chess |
| Without Papers | Tom Vecchio |
| Witty Woman: A Play in Two Acts | Felicity Nussbaum |
| Wolves At The Door | Ali MacLean |
| Woman On The Bridge | Julia Pascal |
| Women: In Space! Gaslight Supernova | Caity-Shea Violette |
| You Are The Blood | Ashley Rose Wellman |
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