2025 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 22, 2025

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. These exceptional plays 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 Finalist announcement on February 12th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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 Semifinalists:

A Dissonance	Paula B Stanic
A Waking at the Motley	Chris Smith
An Act of Love	Fareeda Pasha
Bad Call	Shane Sakhrani
Be Not Forgetful	Tee Hoida
Brain Hemingway	Erin Murray Quinlan
Bushwick ‘77	jaymes Jorsling
Cassandra	Christopher Miller
Charlotte's Letters	Jennifer OGrady
Crime Fiction	Deirdre Girard
Duffy's Cut	Liz Kerr
Furlough's Paradise	a.k. payne
Guenevere	Susan Cinoman
Hello Kitty Must Die	Gail Restorer & Kurt Johns
Hey! I Heard You're Black	Alicia Whavers
High School Antigone	Judy Klass
I Know Exactly What I'm Doing	Josh Verges
In Defense of Medea	Lane St Sebastian
Jane, Queen's Foole	Barbara A Blatner
Juggernaut	Ciara Ni Chuirc
Lincoln's Children	Mike McGeever
Maladies	Chris Sherman
Missed Opportunities	Jillian Leff
New Eden	Heidi Kraay
Obit	Rebecca Chace
Rails	Tom Paitson Kelly & Tom Kenaston
Right	Darryl Vinyard
RUA Robot	Rick Kinnebrew
Spitting Image	Nimisha Ladva
Sun Sisters	Vasanti Saxena
Swim	Kait Hickey
The Dead Woman	Chelsea Sutton
The Forever Question	James Christy
The Glass Between Stars	Evan Brodsky
The More Loving One	D Tucker Smith
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog	Thomas Yungerberg
The Silver Thread	Joslyn Housley McLaughlin
The Victims	Kyle C. Mumford
This Is My Covenant Which You Shall Keep	Yechezkel Zach Greenberger
Witchduck	Eva DeVirgilis