2023 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on December 7, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on January 25th on our blog 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:
| "a falling away" | John Spellos |
| "CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR" | Daniel Waters |
| "God's Peculiar People." | Marilynn Loveless |
| (Gold is Gold) | Matthew Puckett |
| #NWORD | Christian Elder |
| 10 X 2 | ANDREW SMITH |
| 72 Hours | Deno Seder |
| a curious thing; or superheroes k'ain't fly | Jeremy O'Brian |
| A Great Fresco of Stupidity | Luke Krueger |
| A Hidden Life | Randy Neale |
| A Lovely Day to Kill Your Spouse | Lindsey Brown |
| A Midlife Summer's Dream | Charlotte Runde |
| Alexa, Play | Alexa Elmy |
| All Stations Distress | Joshua Chamberlain |
| An Eight Second View | Kevin Anthony |
| An Ideal Wife | Sarah Knight |
| And the Stones Will Cry Out | David Graham |
| Another Draft, Another Placeholder Title [that I will change this time, I promise] | Samantha Langmead |
| Archetype | Azenath Adede |
| Bearding the Lyons | Pab Sungenis |
| Before, I Talked To Shoes | Alina Rios |
| Birthday Club | Phil Olson |
| Bliss Investigations | Mike Buckley |
| Boulevard of Bold Dreams | LaDarrion Williams |
| Buried Phoenix | Laura Leininger-Campbell |
| Chasing Destiny | Adrian Crawford |
| Clary and Alice | karin doucette |
| Cops on Drugs | Jeff Eyres |
| Cosmas and Damian | Dana Hammer |
| Cuddle Buddy | Noah Wilson |
| Dark Horse | Gary Blackwood |
| Dionne's House: Ecstacy and Primal Agony (Mostly) on the Michigan Riviera | Paula Kamen |
| Dogrose Patrol | Brendan Bourque-Sheil |
| DoofyLand | Mike Hadge |
| Drinking In Church | Kieran Angelini |
| Drinking In the Park | Dan Ross |
| ELVIRA | arnold gold |
| Erin Go Bragh-less | John Shea |
| Euphoria | Mark Ridge |
| Fenway: Last of the Bohemians | Robert Kelly McAllister |
| First Ladies and the Big White Lie | Janine Sternlieb |
| FLINCH | Sam Given |
| FLOATING NAKED WITH PIRANHAS (HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE WORKING AT AMAZON) | Rich Rubin |
| Flush | Kelly Kidwell |
| French for Bread | Oli Isaac |
| God, Waving | Linda Whitmore |
| Gold | Marcus Gorman |
| Group | Alex Rubin |
| Growing Flowers on the Moon | R. T. Bowersox |
| Gunk | Simon Haines |
| Gutmusik | Joe DiPietro |
| Hearing Art | Lee Kitchen |
| Heartbeat | lee aubry |
| Helen Keller Was Real | Allison Theveny |
| Hello Boys & GIRLS | Joseph Maldonado |
| Hello Trouble, Come On In | Gwynneth Lau |
| High Maintenance | Peter Ritt |
| Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow Stage Play | Harold L. Brown |
| I Am Here | Lewis H. Mackie |
| I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING | Josh Verges |
| Illicit | PAUL MROCZKA |
| Imagine That | Audrey Webb |
| In the Middle | Megan Sass |
| IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD: Nudity, Debauchery and Afternoon Tea | Bob Canning |
| It Burns | Sam Spoll |
| It's Magic! | Flora Doone |
| John Milton's Paradise Lost | Christopher Bramble |
| Joyhood | CH Keong |
| Judgment of the Eye (previously Forger) | Simon Bowler |
| Killed by the Boys | Sam Robotham |
| Kilonova | Jon Krupp |
| Last Rites | Randy Neale |
| Lies | Jerry Slaff |
| Little Sugar and the Pilgrimage of Grace | sandra Cruze |
| Looking for Redfeather | Linda Collison |
| Love or Best Offer | Phil Olson |
| Lyme Disease: The Musical | Ellen Thompson |
| Mama Bushwick is Dead | Elizabeth Shannon |
| Marlowe Part Two | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Marlowe, Part One | Simon Bowler Khan |
| MATTIE MOON | Cheryll Crane |
| Mimosa | Jediah Craig |
| Missing in Person | Sheila Rinear |
| Monogamy | Sophia Mertins |
| Music Box | Allison Quiller |
| Necessary Friends - Roosevelt and Churchill | David Tabasko |
| New woman | Ida Marinic |
| Nice Guys Finish Last | Harrison Gale, Jeremy Adkins |
| Nightcaps | Eric Grant |
| Nina | Forrest Malloy |
| No Expectations | Jediah Craig |
| No Such Thing As Normal | Samantha Walker |
| NOVEL | Ryan Bernsten |
| Of Prophets and Fools: the Horace Bender Story | Josh Williams |
| One Million People, Full Stop | Janet H Swinney |
| Penelope's War, the Musical | Nancy Ellis, Marc Ellis |
| Piles of Dirt | Louise Schwarz |
| PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST | Richard Demak |
| Prima Donna | Chris Leyva |
| Problems in Moral Philosophy | Boaz Gaon |
| QUEEN OF THE BONACKERS | Susan Kathryn Hefti |
| Real Fakes: The true story of the fake spy who saved D-Day. | David Dubczak |
| REUNION | Steve Karp |
| REVISITING WILDFIRE | KARI FLOREN |
| Rich | Mark Wallinger |
| Ride | Eric Lane |
| RUSSIAN TROLL | Rich Rubin |
| Rx Machina | Caity-Shea Violette |
| Sam Langford: The Apollo Interview | Charles Coulter |
| Scary Black Play or the Play Where the Black Folk Live | Zander Thomas |
| Scrambled Eggs | Jessica Fisher |
| Second Flood | Annie Sudler |
| SEDONA | Kait Hickey |
| Sensitivity Training | Rob Ackerman |
| Separate and Equal | Seth Panitch |
| Sex Work, Sex Play | Caytha Jentis |
| Shakespeare's Women | Lorien Haynes |
| Shapeshifter | Dan Borengasser |
| Shrimp Pudding | Kyle C. Mumford |
| SIBLINGS x 2 | Michael Diamond |
| Sign of Life | Mark Ridge |
| Signature Photo | Michael Bucklin |
| Snowbirds | Lauren Holmes |
| Snowmen | Michael Kell |
| Southern Exposure | Claude Brickell |
| Spirit | Gianna Ferraro |
| Stacks | Anthony Toohey |
| Stalking | Jayne Hannah |
| Stingers | Pamela Leahigh |
| Stirrups | Stacey Powells Lyster |
| TALK OF THE TOWN | Mike Bencivenga |
| Tango Mike (Thanks Much) | Daniel Stone |
| Tennessee Wet Rub | Kim Ruyle |
| That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven | Franky Gonzalez |
| The Advocate | Bill Mesce |
| The Anamorphosis | Hailey Sipes |
| The Ashes of Aquitaine | Rusty Harding, Leigh Moore |
| The Bauer Sisters | John Dirrigl |
| The Beach House | Christina Alagaratnam |
| THE CASSANDRA MURDERS | Madeline Daly Puccioni |
| The Clipper | Maryanne Melloan Woods |
| The Count of One | Gary Blackwood |
| The Curse of Madame Phoebe | Cara Marshall |
| The Dame and the Devil | Chelsey Urich |
| The Demand of Avarice | Matthew McLachlan |
| THE DIRTIEST GAME | STEPHEN MONTAGNE, Jason Slawson |
| The Enemy of the State | Simon Bowler Khan |
| The Face Of The Deep | Jennifer Chaney |
| The Great Comic Book War of 1954 | Noah Wilson |
| The Great Divide | Jeff Kaufman |
| The Happiest Place on Earth | Libby Gardner |
| The Heart of Christmas | Nick Abdo |
| The Last Doughnut | colette freedman |
| The Levitation of Newel Knight: A Tragedy in Three Acts | Stuart Calloway |
| THE LIGHT AT ARLES | Robert Menna |
| The Literal Word of God | Henry Gough |
| The Myth of the Mountain | Danielle Koenig, Justin Cook |
| The Perish | Mario Tofano |
| The Pirates of Chemo | Paul Schutte |
| The Public Therapy Sessions: Series D-1F7, Curated by Lillian Marsella | Victor Lesniewski |
| The Redemption of Mrs. Satan | Julie Daniels |
| The Third Law | Ann Greenseth |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| The Value | NICHOLAS DUNN |
| The Warren Commission Spectacular | Courtney Taylor |
| The Wind Chimes an American Musical - Stage version | Laurie Whitaker |
| The Zomb-Apocs | Tom Cavanaugh |
| This Is My Story | Marcia P. Samuels |
| Tripping Over Roots | jaymes Jorsling |
| Triumvirate- Glory, Sacrifice and peace | Kate Hawkes |
| Tune in | Carlos Lacamara |
| USED | Lauren Fleishman |
| VEILS OF JUSTICE | Tita Anntares |
| We Can't Breathe | Phillip Christian Smith |
| WHISPERINGS OF THE GODS | Paul Coleman |
| White Nights, Black Paradise | Sikivu Hutchinson |
| WHY IS THE DOG HOWLIN', MOMMA? (play) | Rosalyn Rosen |
| Winsor and Gertie: A Play in Four Epochs | Donald Crafton |
| You Don't Have to Cry | M.J. Morrone |
| Young Benjamin Banneker | Juan Villegas |
| Zig-Zag | Philip Catherwood |
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