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Past National Award Winning Plays and Playwrights
2021 National Award Winning Playwrights
Nayna Agrawal
Ace Anderson
Claudia Barnett
Jacqueline Bircher
Dan Borengasser
Shelli Pentimall Bookler
Dorothea Cahan
Rachael Carnes
Sheila Cowley
Christine Evana
Rich Epsey
Patrick Gabridge
Catherine Haigney
Heidi Kraay
William Leavengood
Khalil Lesaldo
Danielle Eliska Lyle
David Lindsay-Abaire
Jeff Locker
Susan Miller
Timothy Nolan
Daryl Patrice
Phanesia Pharel
Karen Saari
Clinnesha Sibley
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2020 WINNER Jacquelin Bircher
WEBSTER’S BITCH
THE FINALISTS
Amy Berryman WINNER
Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich THREE a.m.
Karen Fix Curry CRAZY QUILTS
Cayenne Douglass VARIABLE RATES OF KINDNESS
Siegmund Fuchs THE OTHER SIDE
Vince Gatton HEY
Richard Hellesen CHOPIN’S PIANO
Gethsemane Herron-Coward THE FALLING MAN
Daniel Hirsch A SMALL BREACH OF PROTOCOL AT BIG RICK’S ROCKIN’ SKY DIVE ACADEMY
Donna Hoke YOU HAVEN’T CHANGED A BIT
Andra Hunter STAR BRIGHT
Stephen Kaplan IN MRS. BAKER’S ROOM
William Kovacsik BOTTLE FOR A SPECIAL OCCASION
John Minigan CLOSING DOORS
Marj O’Neill-Butler THERE’S A NEW LIFE COMING
Amber Palmer BABY DYKE WHISPERER
Phanesia Pharel AND OTHER DREAMS WE HAD
Eric Pfeffinger SOMETHING THIS WAY COMES
Kris Rasmussen SEUSSIFIED
Lia Romeo LIFESTYLE CONTENT
Paloma Sierra COLA’O
Philip Middleton Williams A LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITY
Steve Yockey – GO GET ‘EM, TIGER
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About the Class of 2020 Playwrights:
2020 Winner: Jacquelin Bircher (Webster’s Bitch)
Jacquelin Bircher, Winner of the 2020 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest with Webster’s Bitch; Jacqueline Bircher is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Her work has been produced and/or developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Primary Stages, Market Garden Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, and Talk Back Theatre, among others. Full-length plays include Another Revolution (upcoming world premiere at Gulfshore Playhouse 2021), The Once and Future Casey Colman, and The Rule of Thirds. City Theatre produced Webster’s Bitch as part of SheShorts in July/August of 2019.
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France-Luce Benson
France-Luce Benson, Fall. Named “Someone to Watch ” by American Theatre magazine; Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, Miranda Family Foundation grant recipient; Dramatists Guild Fellow, Sam French OOB Festival Winner, Princess Grace Award runner up. Selected productions: The Talk - Crossroads Theatre and City Theatre, Risen from the Dough - City Theatre of Miami and 2015 National Award winner; Showtime Blues and Fall - Ensemble Studio Theatre NY. France-Luce, with her roots in the South Florida Haitian community, is also a regularly commissioned playwright for City Theatre’s Short Cuts Middle School tour.
Amy Berryman
Amy Berryman, Winner. Amy Berryman is a New York based actor and writer originally from Seattle by way of West Texas. Plays: Walden (Premiere Play Festival Runner-Up 2019, honorable mention for the Parity Commission), The New Galileos (O’Neill Finalist 2019), Epiphany (Finalist Shakespeare's New Contemporaries, O'Neill Semi-Finalist 2020), The Whole of You (commissioned by Rising Phoenix Rep), and Three Year Summer. Her short play Winner was a Top 12 Finalist for Sam French OOB and a Finalist for City Theatre National Award. Her work has been developed at theatres around the country, and the short film she wrote, co-produced, and starred in “You Are Everywhere” won Best Drama in the LA Short Film Festival 2018.
Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Three a.m. Her award-winning plays include Hitting the Wall, off-Broadway (Prod. Tony-winner Arielle Tepper Madover); Sister Sister, Northern Light Theatre; Boy Girl Boy Girl, Trinity Rep (Providence); Double Vision and Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings, both in the NY International Fringe Festival (former transferred off-Broadway); Romeo Chang; Still Life; Big City; her work has been developed in New York and around the country. Won: Beverly Hills Julie Harris Playwriting Award and Israel Baran Award. Runner up: Sundance Playwriting Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Princess Grace Award, Heideman Award. Nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Award and Kilroy Listed. Published: Applause, Smith & Kraus. Barbarablumenthalehrlich.com
Karen Fix Curry
Karen Fix Curry, Crazy Quilts. Karen Fix Curry writes dramas and comedies relating to the human condition. She received her degree from California State University, Fullerton, CA., in 1999, is a member of Orange County Playwrights Alliance and The Dramatist Guild of America. Recently relocated to the Puget Sound, her main focus is writing and developing new plays.
Cayenne Douglass
Cayenne Douglass, Variable Rates of Kindness. Cayenne has had work developed and/or produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Fresh Ink Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Dixon Place, The First Stage Residency through The Drama League, The Barn Arts Residency, and The Emerging Artists Residency at Tofte Lake. This spring, her full-length play, Maiden Voyage won The Lorraine Hansberry Award (2nd place) and Distinguished Achievement for both The Rosa Parks and Paula Vogel Playwriting Awards through The Kennedy Center. Variable Rates of Kindness was a finalist for The Garry Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award and will be published by Concord Theatricals in Theatre Masters’ Take Ten Anthology 2020. www.cayennedouglass.com
Siegmund Fuchs
Siegmund Fuchs, The Other Side. Siegmund Fuchs hails from Cleveland, Ohio, but now lives in Washington, D.C. He practices law for the United States Department of Justice, but in his free time, he writes. His most recent full-length play, In The Closet, placed in five national competitions and had its NYC premier at Studio Theater on Theatre Row on 42nd Street in 2019 (produced by Ebner-Page Productions). It had its world co-premier in 2018 at Convergence-Continuum in Cleveland, Ohio, and The Rainbow Theatre Project, in Washington, D.C. Other works include Never Turned Out To Be Four Months, A Night At the Movies, and The Other Side.
Vince Gatton
Vince Gatton, Hey. Vince Gatton is a New York-based playwright and Drama Desk-nominated actor. He’s been a finalist for the National Short Playwriting Award at City Theatre twice before, and a winner of the LIC Short Play Festival and the Samuel French OOB Festival. His full-length play Alexandria was the winner of Sanguine Theatre Company’s Project Playwright Festival and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award. www.vincegatton.com
Richard Hellesen
Richard Hellesen, Chopin’s Piana. Richard is thrilled to return to City Theatre, where previous festivals featured his shorts Dos Corazones, Untamed, Four One-Hundredths, Communique, Layin’ Off The Lizard Boy, Teardown, and A Speedy and Public Trial. An Associate Artist at Ford's Theatre in DC, his plays for adult and young audiences have been seen across the country. www.richardhellesen.com
Gethsemane Herron-Coward
Gethsemane Herron-Coward, The Falling Man. Gethsemane Herron-Coward’s plays include Heifer, Blanks and Lordes (w/Katherine Wilkinson). Gethsemane’s work has been seen with the The Fire This Time Festival, JAG Productions, and more. Fellowships include: Puffin Foundation, Yasmin Scholarship from the Millay Colony. Member: Dramatist’s Guild. MFA: Columbia University.
Daniel Hirsch
Daniel Hirsch, A Small Breach of Protocol at Big Rick’s Rockin’ Sky Dive Academy. Daniel Hirsch is a playwright, screenwriter, and journalist based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared at City Theatre of Pittsburgh, Custom Made Theatre, the Asylum Theater of Las Vegas, Bay One Acts Festival, the SF Olympians Festival, Playground LA, and selected for Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival the San Francisco Playwright's Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He is a two-time recipient of a screenwriting prize from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for Traitorous and Sheepish. His libretto for the opera ID, Please, composed by Soosan Lolavar, was performed at Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London. He has an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
Donna Hoke
Donna Hoke, You Haven’t Changed A Bit. Donna’s work has been seen in 47 states and on five continents, including at Barrington Stage, Barrow Group, Celebration Theatre, Gulfshore Theatre, Queens Theatre, The Road, Phoenix Theatre, Atlantic Stage, Purple Rose, Skylight, Pride Films and Plays, New Jersey Rep, Hens and Chickens (London), The Galway Fringe Festival, and Actors Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg. Plays include Brilliant Works of Art (Kilroys List), Elevator Girl (O’Neill and Princess Grace finalist), and Teach (Gulfshore New Works winner). She has been nominated for the Primus, Blackburn, and Laura Pels prizes, and is a three-time winner of the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play, Seeds, Sons & Lovers, Once in my Lifetime, and three-time Buffalo's Best Writer.
Andra Hunter
Andra Hunter, Star Bright. Andra Laine Hunter earned a BFA in Theatre Studies from SMU with a double concentration in Playwriting and Directing. She is currently an MFA in Playwriting Candidate with Spalding University. Her plays are slated for performance in Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and Tennessee. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
Stephen Kaplan
Stephen Kaplan, In Mrs. Baker’s Room. Stephen Kaplan’s plays have won the NJ Playwrights Contest, New American Comedy Showcase, Chameleon Theatre Circle; finalist: Woodward/Newman, Seven Devils, B Street Theatre's New Comedies Festival, Trustus, City Theatre; semi-finalist: O’Neill, PlayPenn, Ashland New Play Festival. He is a Dramatists Guild member and serves as the Northeastern Regional Representative for the DG National Council. www.bystephenkaplan.com
William Kovacsik
William Kovacsik, Bottle for a Special Occasion. William was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama from 1994-2001. Most recently, he served as chair of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch Asia graduate program. He has had thirty-one of his plays performed in the US, Wales, Scotland, Canada and Singapore. His play The Masrayana won the Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for Best New Play in Chicago, 2005-2006, and Morisot Reclining was nominated for an Ovation Award by the Denver Post. His play Move To First, was produced in City Theatre’s 1998 Summer Shorts Festival. He has been published by both Playscripts, Inc. and Next Stage Press.
John Minigan
John Minigan, Closing Doors. John Minigan’s Queen of Sad Mischance is a 2020 winner of the New American Voices Festival. Noir Hamlet, named an EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater 2018, was produced at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. He is a Massachusetts Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing and Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England. John’s play, It’s The Jews was produced in City Theatre’s 2014 Summer Shorts Festival
Marj O’Neill-Butler
Marj O’Neil-Butler, There’s A New Life Coming. Marj O’Neill-Butler, is the Florida Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild. A member of the New Play Exchange and International Center for Women Playwrights, her work has been seen in 29 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Great Britain, Scotland, Hong Kong and Seoul, S Korea. She has had 49 different plays produced in multiple theaters
Amber Palmer
Amber Palmer, Baby Dyke Whisperer. Amber Palmer’s plays have been seen across the country, including Activate Midwest, The Mitten Lab, Flint Repertory Theatre, Bristol Valley Theater, and Tipping Point Theatre. Awards and publications include Best Men’s Monologues of 2019 and finalist for City Theatre's National Award for Short Playwriting (2019). MFA Western Michigan University (2020).
Phanesia Pharel
Phanesia Pharel, And Other Dreams We Had. Phanésia Pharel is a Haitian-American playwright who addresses the divine metaphysical dilemma of Black and Latinx girlhood. Her plays span revolutions, islands, and Afro-Futurism. She is currently an Artist in Residence for New York Stage and Film, a National Young Playwright in Residence for the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America. Her writing first came to the attention of City Theatre when she was selected for the company’s NextGen Playwrights Program, and then interned for its literary and CityWrights conference.
Eric Pfeffinger
Eric Pfeffinger, Something This Way Comes. Eric Pfeffinger is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America east. His plays have been produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, the Denver Theatre Center, the Geva, the Phoenix, and developed by the Lark, Page 73, PlayPenn, the Colorado New Play Summit, Orlando Shakes Playfest, Chicago Dramatists, and others. His previous work with City Theatre includes Melto Man and Lady Mantis, That Thing That Time, Be Good, and Tiny Baby.
Kris Rasmussen
Kris Rasmussen, Seussified. Kris Rasmussen is an educator and playwright living in Michigan. Her work has been featured in anthologies such as Smith and Kraus’s “Best of” series. Her plays have premiered at several regional theaters and she is the founder of the Great Lakes Festival of Shorts. Find her at www.krisrasmussen.net
Lia Romeo
Lia Romeo, Lifestyle Content. Lia Romeo’s play The Forest was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and was scheduled to receive a National New Play Network rolling world premiere in the upcoming season. This and three of her other plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays have been produced by companies around the country and are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, and Dramatists Play Service. Lia’s most recent production for City Theatre was the 2019 National Award winner, The Presentation, produced in Summer Shorts 2019.
Paloma Sierra
Paloma Sierra, Cola’o. PALOMA SIERRA is a Puerto Rican writer based in Pittsburgh. Current Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County, Paloma has presented her work with Poetic Theater Productions and Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Her writing is published in Bridge: The Bluffton University Journal, Persephone's Daughters and Sampsonia Way. For more, visit www.pasierra.com
Philip Middleton Williams
Philip Middleton Williams, A Life Enriching Community. Philip Middleton Williams has written over forty plays from full-length to one minute, many available through New Play Exchange, ArtAge’s Senior Resource Center, and Smith Scripts. A Moment of Clarity was a 2017 finalist in the City Theatre National Short Play Contest. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Steve Yockey
Steve Yockey, Go Get ‘Em Tiger. Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based writer with work produced throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His plays Bellwether, Pluto, Afterlife, Octopus, Large Animal Games, CARTOON, Subculture, Very Still & Hard to See, The Fisherman’s Wife, Wolves, Disassembly, and Niagara Falls & Other Plays are published and available from Samuel French. Additionally, his play Joshua Consumed an Unfortunate Pear (originally commissioned by Miami’s City Theatre) was included in the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays and the subsequent published anthology. Other plays include Blackberry Winter, The Thrush & The Woodpecker, Bleeding Hearts, and Bliss. His new play Mercury will open this season at Salt Lake Acting Company in Salt Lake City, Utah and Stray Cat Theatre in Phoenix, AZ. Steve is an artistic associate at Forum Theatre in Washington, DC and a company member of Out of Hand in Atlanta, GA. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently serves as a writer/producer for the television series Supernatural. Steve is City Theatre’s most commissioned playwright with plays produced in Summer Shorts, Shorts Gone Wild and Winter Shorts.
2019 WINNER Lia Romeo
THE PRESENTATION
THE FINALISTS
Jake Chapman (Music) and Lisa Mongillo (Book & Lyrics) HOSPITAL KIDS
Jen Diamond THIS IS HOW GHOSTS SPEAK
Nelson Diaz-Marcano RABIOSA and EL YUNQUE IN ENGLISH
Scott Dixon ENCYCLOPEDIA ELIZABETHA
Gracie Gardner BALLGIRL
Vince Gatton BETTER
Stephen Kaplan DEATH DEFYING
Jean Koppen GOT A LIGHT?
Jeff Locker THE FORGOTTEN PLACE and SWEET, SHE
Cristina Luzarraga EGG TIMER
David MacGregor BLACK FRIDAY
Michael John McGoldrick THE MOMENT AFTER
Jenny Mead BUT THAT’S OKAY
Amber Palmer THE SPEEDY GONZALES MEMORIAL TURTLE SANCTUARY
Jack Rushton MISTRANSLATIONS
Kirt Shineman A LIFE ASSEMBLED
Bara Swain EXTRAORDINARY
D. J. Sylvis STARS
Jennie Webb SMILING CAT CANDY HEART
Steve Yockey TELEPHONES & BAD WEATHER
Zach Spound DINOSAUR
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​2018 WINNER Ken Weitzman
COVENANT (...OR BAGELS AND BUTCHERY)
THE FINALISTS
Ian August FROZEN FOODS
Leslie Ayvazian SMILING AT YOU
France-Luce Benson MELANIN
Preston Max Allen & Will Buck Franklin Pierce: DRAGON SLAYER
Jeff Bouthiette BIRTHDAY
Rachel Bublitz SWALLOWED
Audrey Cefaly BLOODBATH AT THE FILLMORE
Sheila Cowley DUCK
Alex Dremann PRECIPICE
Greg Edwards & Andy Roninson THE ALMOST IN-LAWS
Brent Englar, WEDNESDAY'S CHILD
Gina Femia FLY, BABY
Scott Gibson AILUROPHOBIA
Lauren Gunderson DAMSEL & DISTRESS
Phillip Hall THE NURSE
Andrew Heinze The BAR MITZFAH OF JESUS GOLDFARB
Monet Hurst-Mendoza WORK IT, BITCH
Lindsay Joy THE CLEANERS
Emily Kaczmarek AMERICAN KIDS
Amanda Keating THIS MOVIE
Mark Harvey Levine OH, TANNENBAUN
Ross Maxwell DON'T TURN AROUND
Emmeline McCabe SHIVAREE
Eric Pfeffinger MELTO MAN AND LADY MANTIS
Ashley Lauren Rogers BECKY'S CHRISTMAS WISH
Becca Schlossberg THE STORY OF GO Greg Smith SCHRODINGER'S GUN
LEM AND THE PATHETIC GIRL
Tracey Smith MEET THE PETS
Justin Warner GHOST LITE
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2017 WINNERS
Christyn Budzyna, Charles Cohen, and Helen Park
BAKED GOODS
THE FINALISTS
Dean Bevan GRIM REAPER
Nathan Brisby JEALOUS HUSBAND RETURNS IN THE FORM OF A PARROT
Jeff Fraga I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN
Timothy Huang MISSING KARMA
Chisa Hutchinson CHOOSING LOVE
Jonathan Josephson GRANDPA AND THE GAY RABBI
David MacGregor JUST DESSERTS
Susan Miller HUMAN AFFAIRS
Lin-Manuel Miranda 21 CHUMP STREET
Eric Pfefinger THAT THING THAT TIME
Yasmine Rana LEAF CUTTER
Hillary Rollins BIG FAT COW
Lia Romeo OUT OF THE PARK
Scott Sickles THE BEDROOM SUMMIT
Angela Stern MAMA'S EGGNOG
Seamus Sullivan VALKYRIE IN THE ROLLER DISCO
R. Eric Thomas MIRIAM 1234
Korde Tuttle CLARITY
Lizzie Vieh MONSOON SEASON
Ken Weitzman COVENANT (OR, BAGELS AND BUTCHERY)
Philip Middleton Williams A MOMENT OF CLARITY
Jane Willis THE KID
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2016 WINNERS Greg Edwards & Andy Roninson,
EVELYN SHAFFER AND THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
THE FINALISTS
Scott Barsotti TELL ME WHO YOU SEE
Suzanne Bradbeer THE COLONEL OF OKOBOJI
Landon Braverman & Derek Hassler CHOICES
Tearrance Chisholm CATHEDRAL THEATER
Patricia Cotter RULES OF COMEDY
Carey Crim ROOM 313
Chris Critelli & Andy Roninson WARPED
Greg Edwards & Ron Barnett EPISCUS & EDENDUS
Rich Espey IN MEMORY OF MS. MARY BROWN
Vanessa Garcia FREEK
Elin Hampton F4
Brough Hansen THE BLUE
Gary Jaffe SUNSET
Jennifer Jasper EGGS
Chris O’Connor MISS RING HAS LOST HER PHONE
Daria Polatin GeTTING AHEAD IN THE BIG BAD WORLD
Lia Romeo LAST CALL BY
Paul Tei WEDNESDAY’ S CHILD
Greg Waters THE DEVIL’S ASSISTANT
2015 WINNER France-Luce Benson
RISEN FROM THE DOUGH
THE FINALISTS
James Armstrong THE TRADE
Neena Beber RUNNING INTO YOU
France-Luce Benson THE TALK
Eleanor Burgess PARK SLOPE MINSTREL SHOW
Patricia Cotter THE ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
Jane Elias BABY STEPS
Rich Espey THE JOYCE KILMER SERVICE CENTER
Lauren Feldman SAND AND SAM
Vanessa Garcia THE CROCODILE’S BITE
Vince Gatton IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF HI-Q
Miranda Hall THE VALUE OF Y
David Hilder MISFORTUNE
Donna Hoke SURVIVAL STRATEGY
Jillian Leff REAL TALK
Jane Martin BEDTIME
Susan Miller READING LIST
Audrey Polinski BURGER BALLET
Lia Romeo YOG SOTHOTH
R. Eric Thomas HUMAN RESOURCES
Greg Waters THE POETRY CURSE
Louise Wigglesworth REAL ART
Ann Wuehler THE MATING SEASON OF FLYING MONKEYS
Anne Wynter RUBY NOW AND AGAIN
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2014 WINNER Arlitia Jones
TORNADO
THE FINALISTS
Leslie Ayvazian THE CLICK
Carey Crim GLAMPING
Richard Dresser HALFTIME
Fielding Edlow BUMP BETWEEN FRIENDS
Jessica Farr NADIE
Edith Freni FLARE
Ira Gamerman DID THIS MATTER? (A Game Show)
Vanessa Garcia LASSO
Gary Garrison GAME ON
Mira Gibson OLD FLAME
Holli Harms COUGAR
William Pendergast III THE LAST OF THE McLAUGHLINS
Craig Pospisil THERE’S NO HERE HERE
Theo Reyna THE SCOTTISH PLAY
R. David Robinson INK
Jake Rosenberg NO ONE GIVES A CLAP
Andrew Rosendorf SISYPHUS
Mark Routhier LEAVING
Becca Schlossberg HANDS
Lojo Simon BATSHIT CRAZY
Gwydion Suilebhan VERTICAL CONSTELLATION WITH BOMB
R. Eric Thomas WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT IT’S RIDICULOUS
Michael Weems ONE THREE TWO
Sheri Wilner THE ONE
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2013 WINNER David Bar Katz
MOTHRA VS. THE CASTING DIRECTOR: AN ALLEGORY
THE FINALISTS
Leslie Ayvazian THE FAVOR
Brad Beckham & Hector Pino PAPELES
Kendra Blevins iZOMBIES
Alex Broun 50 GUNS
Cricket Daniel BREAK DREAMS
Emily Dendinger EVERYBODY HURTS (SOMETIMES)
Vanessa Garcia PAWN
Holli Harms MAKE JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY GO HOME
Israel Horovitz THE BUMP
Peter Kennedy DISCONNECTIONS
Alexis Kozak GIRLS PRAY OR KITCHEN STIGMATA
Nina Mansfield BITE ME
Catya McMulle MISSED CONNECTIONS
Darren Miller & Kevin Mead EDISON/TESLA
John Minigan IT’S THE JEWS
Rick Park PLEASE REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
Mary Sansone WRINGLEYS
Bara Swain THE HOTEL LOBBYIST
Deborah Yarchun THE STARFIRE DANCE
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2012 WINNER Carey Crim
GREEN DOT DAY
THE FINALISTS
Andie Arthur THE DUELING EDWARDS
Allan Baker …LAST AND ALWAYS
David Bar Katz HANDING DOWN THE RECIPE
Allan Bates FORCED ENTRY
Bekah Brunstetter RUN
Barbara Bryan WITHOUT REGARD TO NEW ORLEANS
Patrick Gabridge ESCAPE TO WONDERLAND
C. S. Hanson THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW?
Holly Hepp-Galvan DEPARTURE
David Kranes THE MEMORY PILLOW
Adam Peltzman BEDFELLOWS
Kyle John Schmidt THE DUNGEONS AND THE DRAGONS
Lojo Simon MOSCOW
J. C. Svec VALERIE AND THERESA
Joyce Turiskylie I’LL BE THERE
Sheri Wilner A TALL ORDER
Richard Vetere THE KID’S MENU