Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 8, 2020

Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2019 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 three Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, an agent at Creative Artists Agency, and an Emerging Playwright and Award-winning writer on OWN's Queen Sugar.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists, finalists and grand prize winners here and our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

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Here are the quarterfinalists:

*101*	Sunee Foley
*30th Ave*	Matt Fried
*60 Yards North of Roanoke*	Greg Harrison Davis
*A Couple of Months*	Deborah Riley
*A Favoured Species*	Michael Ball
*A Fractal Pile-Up of Unexpectedness Divided By The Inevitable With The Alternative Title of Bucket*	Michael Beckley
*A Green Old Age*	Bryan Crockett
*A Problem of Evil*	RC Atchisson
*Ageless*	Bridgette Portman
*Alchemy of the Spirit*	J. Thalia Cunningham
*All the Dead Biddles*	Shelli Pentimall Bookler
*Armistice*	Paul Farrell
*At the Battlefront*	Gursimrat Kaur
*Baby Come Back*	Lea Sellers
*Bad Hearts*	Mike Bencivenga
*Before You Go*	John C Ashton
*Behind the Opera*	Mathias Lefevre
*Between Panic and Desire*	Bear Kosik
*Bismillah or In the Name of God*	Nakisa Aschtiani
*Black Sky*	Amanda Andrei
*BlackHawk*	Christopher Aronsten
*Bless This House*	Lovell McFadden
*Bound By Truth*	Sheila Rinear
*Broken:*	Devlin Elliott
*Butterfly's Child*	Ralph Protsik
*Buying Time*	Michelle Bergamo
*By the Grace Go I*	Allison Lahikainen
*Centurions*	Sally Stubbs
*Chicken In A Box*	Whitney Powell
*Child of Lions*	Jared Michael Delaney
*CJ, An Aspanglish Play*	Mercedes Floresislas
*Colloquia*	David Zarko
*Color Timer*	Michael Long
*COMPROMISED*	Mike Bencivenga
*Conversation Peace*	Richard Butler
*Creating a Kosher Pig*	Mack Edwards
*D'Eon*	Renny Krupinski
*Dateline: Greensboro*	Paul Woolverton & John Merritt
*Daughters of the Sexual Revolution*	Dana Leslie Goldstein
*Dead Enough*	Biljana Radovic
*Delusions of Power*	David Dubczak
*Do Not Go Gentle*	Paul McLaughlin
*Don't Marry No Fool*	Wendy Speights
*Doppelg√§nger*	Craig Donnelly
*ED IV*	Joe Carlisle
*Elvira*	Arnold Gold
*Emily Adams and her Wonderful, Amazing, Extraordinary Death Ray*	Ryan Costello
*Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, sometimes*	Franky Gonzalez
*Evening*	Michael Raver
*Every Little Nookie*	Sunny Drake
*Exhibit I*	Raymond Santos
*ExWhy*	Jared Hamilton
*Fair is Foul*	Marc Ellis
*Fathers on Earth*	Zac Thompson
*Finding Mr. Rightstein*	Nancy Davidoff Kelton
*Fire And Fae*	Marisa Wexler
*Fixx Me*	Marisa Wexler
*For Better, For Worse*	Reed Arnold
*Forger*	Simon Bowler
*Four White Flowers*	Kendall Fowler
*Free Birdie*	DeLaney Hardy-Ray
*Funeral for a Fish*	Michelle DeFranco
*Gentleman's War*	W. Colin McKay
*George & Martha's Wedding Gift*	Charles Leipart
*Happy Hour*	Sam Roseme
*Hate Street*	Frank Tumminia
*Heroine Addiction*	Melodie Edwards
*Hit and Run*	Kate Herbert
*How to Stage a Coup*	Josiah Houston
*Huntington*	Jamie Cowperthwait
*I Heard a Rumor*	Judy Klass
*Icarus in the Sea*	Saige Cross
*In the Sauce*	M. J. Putnik
*In The Winter of Pretty*	Kristeen Tadich
*Ink'dWell*	Erin Adams
*Isaac, A Documentary Play in Two Acts*	Lee Franklin
*Jamal*	Jennifer Rowland
*Kill 'Em With Aloha; Or, Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play*	Shanti Reinhardt
*Lavender Men*	Roger Mason
*Leftovers*	Ellen Wittlinger
*Let's Misbehave*	Lawrence Gullo
*Liberty*	Sarah Lawrence
*Linchpin*	Jake Arky
*Losing Patients*	Emma Oberle
*Made in Heaven*	Steven Bogart
*Men Express Their Feelings*	Sunny Drake
*Minuet on Third*	Mike Bencivenga
*Monsters*	Ian Fletcher
*Mr. Waheeb*	David Loughlin
*Munjoy Hill*	Jack Fuhrmann
*Noblesse Oblige*	Kieran Angelini
*Nurse Cadden*	Kate Mickere
*On Love*	Clare Sladden
*On the Border*	Howard Waxman
*One Kill Rule*	Mare Jones
*Open Casket*	Miriam Kopec
*OTOSOTR (On the Other Side of the River)*	Anatoliy Ogay
*Palace of Secrets*	Jon Fraser
*Parczew 45*	Michael Nachoff
*Parlour Games*	Michael Baroto
*Pheasant Hunting*	R.B. Fischer
*Pirandello's Wife*	Lynn Elliott
*Pun Off: A Musical Inside the High-Stakes World of Pun Competitions*	Matthew Patrick Davis & Joe Chandler
*QC, the gay rodeo musical*	Bear Kosik
*Sealed Orders*	Jean Collinsworth
*Sentenced*	Tevin Knight
*Shelter*	Jack Gilbert
*Simulating Flight*	Mark Dylan Brown
*Sins of the Father*	Greg Bolanos
*Song To The Moon*	Ron Elisha
*Swan Doubles*	Reed Arnold
*Taste of Soap*	Ariel Zucker
*The Advocate*	Bill Mesce, Jr.
*The Ascent*	Thomas Morison
*The C Word*	Carolyn Wright
*The Carrie Variations*	Vin Morreale, Jr.
*The Crying Tree*	Peter Gunter
*The Demonic Legend of John Faust*	Christopher Bramble
*The Dishonoured*	Aamina Ahmad
*The Dogs Pond*	Travis Baker
*The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia*	Laura Zlatos
*The Faults They Built In*	Ashley Kjos
*The Fohole*	Mark Liebert
*The Frisco Flash*	Julius Galacki
*The Gift*	Mildred Lewis
*The Gods of the Ozarks*	Matthew Kelly
*The Goodbye Levee*	Mike Solomonson
*The Invisible Box*	Jane Bernard
*The Lost Art of Making Cheese*	Tracy Schumer
*The Manager (half-way dead)*	Douglas Gearhart
*The Other Place*	Christopher Bryant
*The Scandalous Zelda Divine*	Jane Allison Jones
*The Senator's Bad Day*	Elaine Purnell
*The Stands*	Eric Thomas
*The Tin Whistle*	Bryan Crockett
*The Tragedy of Yorick*	Patrick Cannon
*The Turkey Farm*	Chris Wellard
*The Watertown Primary*	Jim Macak
*The Way We Fell Out of Touch*	Toni Ann Johnson
*Three Chords*	Kim Kolarich
*Three Men*	Steven Elliott Jackson
*TickTickBoom*	M Lee Speyer
*Toss of the Dice*	David Saffan
*Truth Be Told*	William Cameron
*Unentitled*	Charles White
*Various Emporia*	Howard Ho
*veils of Justice*	Tita Anntares
*Violet Volcano*	Sheila Jenca
*Vultures*	Ernest Langston
*Watchers*	Patrick Shaw
*What's Lost*	Paula B Stanic
*Wicked Smaht*	Kevin Scott Chess
*Women on the Verge*	Kimba Henderson
*Words to the Wise*	Greg Minster
*WTF*	Douglas Baker