Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Semifinalists
Listed below are the semifinalists of the inaugural ScreenCraft Stage Play competition. These impressive projects written for the stage were selected from nearly 700 entries. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
This year's jury is comprised of two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, managers at Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and The Gotham Group, the Art Director for The Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, and an Emerging Playwright and Award-winning writer on OWN's Queen Sugar.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and winners here and our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
| A Champagne Glass in the Moonlight | John Schugard |
| A Field Gide to the Amazon | Phoebe Eaton |
| A Night in Jerusalem | Marc Aronoff |
| A Windmill in Chinatown | Mike McGee |
| All That Remains | Ursula Jordaan |
| And They Call it Puppet Love | Kayla Mancuso |
| Bad Hearts | Mike Bencivenga |
| Birdy | Casey Adler |
| Bloody Kansas | Jeff Bergquist |
| Bordeline | Kelli McNeil |
| Boy About Ten | Jon Tuttle |
| Broken Heart Land | Vicki Mooney |
| Castle on the Farm | Alaina Baskerville-Bridges |
| Chrysalis | J.D. Volk |
| Convicted | Riley Thomas |
| Diamond Girl | Bruce Calhoun |
| Dionysus on the Down Low | Michael Proft |
| Disposable Necessities | Neil McGowan |
| Dogmai | Jonathan Vick |
| Dr. Arthur Goldman's Birthday Party | William Ludel |
| Fallen Kingdom: Picking Up the Pieces | Bob Canning |
| Flame Broiled. or the ugly play | Rodney Hicks |
| Freudian Sip | Nicholas Camacho |
| From Out Beyond My Shame | Shawn Nabors |
| Geriatric | Marisa Wexler |
| How to be an Immigrant | Gillian Royes |
| I Shot Mussolini | Alice Bishop |
| Indigo Rising | Justin Smith |
| Invasions and Penetrations | Mike Solomonson |
| Just Like Stealing | Douglas Gearhart |
| Kill All Politicians | Thomas Yungerberg |
| La Mujer Barbuda | Cristina Luzarraga |
| Light of the Blues | Jisoo Yoon |
| Like Forever | Merridith Allen |
| Lineage | Anne Flanagan |
| Look Up, or Why We Don't Go Camping Anymore | Hannah Vaughn |
| Losing My Religion (in 140 Characters or Less) | Hannah Langley |
| Metadata | Amy Crider |
| Metta Physics, or The Great Flash | Victoria Moyer |
| Mine & Yours | Carolyn Kras |
| Mysterious Ecstasy of the Lonely Business Traveler | Scott McCrea |
| Myth Of The Ostrich | Matt Murray |
| New Wave | David Hudacek |
| North Avenue | Christopher Kess |
| Nothing But the Truth | Eve Lederman |
| Nowhere Man | Rob Dames |
| Petie | Lori Fischer |
| Pharaoh | Paul Wootton |
| Revelations: A Play on Words | Stan Werse |
| Right In Front Of Us | Mary Ruth Clarke |
| Roadkill | Leah Sarbib |
| Salvatori | Sindy McKay |
| Ship | Douglas Williams |
| Silence and the Machine | Liam Salmon |
| Silk Purse Project | Ward Kay |
| Spanish Nuts! | Angela J. Davis |
| Sputnik: A Love Story | Lowell Williams |
| Successsion | Charles White |
| Supremacy | Rosalyn Rosen |
| Terms of Use | Patrick Brennan |
| The Audit | Lynda Crawford |
| The Blizzard: A Rehabilitation of The Tempest | Richard Morell |
| The Bronte Girls, Part III: Gods and Correspondence | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
| The Bronte Girls, Part II: Monsters and Etiquette | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
| The Cheapest Hope in Town | Quintin Peterson |
| The Coat of Looking On | Dianne Cutlack |
| The Day After My Suicide | Cary Wong |
| The Diagonal Trilogy | Vita Morales |
| The Fixer | Susan Pak |
| The Forgotten Place | Jeff Locker |
| The Gods of the Ozarks | Matthew Kelly |
| The Haze | Heather Marlowe |
| The Jewel in the Manuscript | Rosemary Zibart |
| The Last Comrade | Jack Raymond |
| The Lavender Mafia | Luke Yankee |
| The Mapmakers Lines are Crooked | Robert Gardner |
| The Reckoning | Kimba Henderson |
| The Spanish Prayer Book | Angela J. Davis |
| The Trial | Simon Bowler |
| The White Dress | Roger Mason |
| Unbound | Steve Apostolina |
| We Are The Futurists! | Jeffrey Bracco |
| Welcome Home | Stephen Brown |
| Where's Helen? | Shiva Ramanathan |
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