2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition Semifinalists Announced
Listed below are the semifinalists 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 finalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
| 30th Ave | Matt Fried |
| 60 Yards North of Roanoke | Greg Harrison Davis |
| A Couple of Months | Deborah Riley |
| A Green Old Age | Bryan Crockett |
| Alchemy of the Spirit | J. Thalia Cunningham |
| Bad Hearts | Mike Bencivenga |
| Behind the opera | Mathias Lefevre |
| Black Sky | Amanda Andrei |
| Bound By Truth | Sheila Rinear |
| Broken: | Devlin Elliott |
| Chicken In A Box | Whitney Powell |
| Child of Lions | Jared Michael Delaney |
| Colloquia | David Zarko |
| Color Timer | Michael Long |
| D'Eon | Renny Krupinski |
| Dateline: Greensboro | Paul Woolverton & John Merritt |
| Delusions of Power | David Dubczak |
| Do Not Go Gentle | Paul McLaughlin |
| Elvira | Arnold Gold |
| Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, sometimes | Franky Gonzalez |
| Evening | Michael Raver |
| Fair is Foul | Marc Ellis |
| Fixx Me | Marisa Wexler |
| For Better, For Worse | Reed Arnold |
| Four White Flowers | Kendall Fowler |
| Gentleman's War | W. Colin McKay |
| Happy Hour | Sam Roseme |
| Heroine Addiction | Melodie Edwards |
| Huntington | Jamie Cowperthwait |
| Icarus in the Sea | Saige Cross |
| In The Winter of Pretty | Kristeen Tadich |
| Ink'dWell | Erin Adams |
| Isaac, A Documentary Play in Two Acts | Lee Franklin |
| Leftovers | Ellen Wittlinger |
| Liberty | Sarah Lawrence |
| Made in Heaven | Steven Bogart |
| Mr. Waheeb | David Loughlin |
| Nurse Cadden | Kate Mickere |
| On the Border | Howard Waxman |
| One Kill Rule | Mare Jones |
| OTOSOTR (On the Other Side of the River) | Anatoliy Ogay |
| Pun-Off: A Musical Inside the High-Stakes World of Pun Competitions | Matthew Patrick Davis & Joe Chandler |
| QC, the gay rodeo musical | Bear Kosik |
| Song To The Moon | Ron Elisha |
| Taste of Soap | Ariel Zucker |
| The Advocate | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| The Crying Tree | Peter Gunter |
| The Dishonoured | Aamina Ahmad |
| The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia | Laura Zlatos |
| The Foxhole | Mark Liebert |
| The Goodbye Levee | Mike Solomonson |
| The Lost Art of Making Cheese | Tracy Schumer |
| The Senator's Bad Day | Elaine Purnell |
| The Tin Whistle | Bryan Crockett |
| The Turkey Farm | Chris Wellard |
| The Watertown Primary | Jim Macak |
| 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 |
| Watchers | Patrick Shaw |
| What's Lost | Paula B. Stanic |
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