ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition |
2025
Past Stage Play competition winners and finalists have signed with representation with CAA, WME, A3 Artists, 3 Arts Entertainment and more.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Jane, Queen's Foole
Private
Winner
Stage Play
· Historical
· 85 Pages
Jane, Queen's Foole, based on the only documented female Fool/jester in the English court, charts the rise and tumultuous fall of the disabled beggar Jane when she becomes, by her wit and boldness, the Foole and court entertainer of Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII.
No bio available.
Winner
Stage Play
· Drama
· 105 Pages
Unsure of how she got there, a young woman awakens in a dive bar in hell to a diverse group of characters. As patrons exit to the stroke of each hour to relive their death, our lead must wait her turn, counting down the minutes until she can learn the truth of her demise.
Brooklyn, NY
Kyle attended the School Of Visual Arts where his thesis film became an award-winning feature at SVA's Dusty Film Fest. Since graduation in 2010, Kyle has worked in film and TV as an editor and assistant for director Tom Gormican. His short films were accepted into numerous festivals including Palm Springs ShortFest. In 2021, Kyle was accepted to th...
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Finalists
A Waking at the Motley
Private
Finalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 116 Pages
Following the death of an elderly castmate and friend after the final performance of their summer stock Lear, four actors and one director of various ages descend upon the local festival haunt, The Motley, for an impromptu wake. As the Rusty Nails flow, so do the insults, histories, drama, revelations and, hopefully, some form of maturity, understan...
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No bio available.
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 93 Pages
A tech startup develops an AI that predicts human behavior. When a whistleblower letter surfaces, the team uses the AI against each other to ferret out the culprit.
No bio available.
Finalist
Stage Play
· Other
· 104 Pages
Gillian Flynn meets Greek Tragedy, minus the poisoned wine.
During Covid, I began to experiment with incorporating my passion for mysteries and telling ghost stories into my female-centric playwriting, and was startled at the overwhelming response. My acceptance rate at festivals soared, I began winning awards and getting published at far higher rates than with my traditional dramas, and I'm having so much ...
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Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 72 Pages
Jay "Juggernaut" Hayes thinks she has been called by God to be an MMA fighter, and is fiercely determined to fight ex-champion Maria Rodriguez. As the fight approaches, Jay’s resolve strengthens while Maria, persuaded by her manager to return after a year away, begins to question if she really wants to face the so-called "Daughter of God."
Ciara Ni Chuirc is an Irish writer based in Los Angeles.
Her plays include MADE BY GOD (Off-Broadway), JUGGERNAUT (O'Neill Finalist, Columbia@Roundabout Finalist, Miranda Theatre Company 2021 Grant Recipient), AFGHANISTASIA (Campfire Theatre Festival Finalist, Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist), FERNS (O'Neill Finalist), and SURE THIS IS IT (Tin...
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Finalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 145 Pages
A queer millennial update of the "mistaken identity comedy"(Think Parent Trap, While You Were Sleeping, Every Shakespearean comedy ever), Missed Opportunities uses mistaken sexual identity to examine the one thing those stories never do - the consequences. (Don't worry, it's still a comedy.)
Chicago, IL
Jillian Leff is a Chicago based playwright, actor, & stage combat nerd. Her work has been produced in Chicago & Los Angeles, with SMALL WORLD (co-written with Joe Lino) receiving a Jeff Award Nomination for New Work, THE S PARADOX winning Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s Joining Sword & Pen Competition, & THE MARK being named a 2023-2024 Henley R...
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Obit
Private
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 53 Pages
Maya Hawthorne, an "advance" obituary writer for the New York Times, arrives at aging college president, Philip Stern's house in the Hudson Valley to interview him for his obituary. President Stern is hoping this interview will yield him a great obituary in the Times. Maya Hawthorne is finally taking her revenge on a man who ruined her life years e...
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Rebecca Chace
No bio available.
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 87 Pages
In this tragic-comic grief play, type A daughter Shannon’s preparations for her mother Michelle’s assisted suicide rub salt in type B daughter Kat’s mental health wounds as the family’s conflicting perceptions of the validity of choices around death force them to confront long avoided traumas.
New York, NY
Kait Hickey is a NYC-based jazz musician, playwright, composer, actor and caretaker. Her mission as a writer is to invoke the healing powers of dark humor. She performs weekly in various jazz clubs in NYC. When she's not on her NYC grind you can find her making beats and composing symphonies in her room. KaitHickey.com
The Silver Thread
Private
Finalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 76 Pages
In Alabama 1845, three enslaved women, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy arrive at the makeshift medical lab of J Marion Sims. What happens over the next four years changes the course of modern medicine and alters the lives of all who enter - for they are forever connected by a silver thread. Based on a true story.
Joslyn Housley is a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and librettist. Grants, awards, and honors include: Advance Gender Equity in the Arts ALP Grant; Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant; Women Playwrights International Conference Montreal Official Selection; New American Voices/Landing Theatre Finalist; Bay Area Playwrights Festival ...
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Semifinalists
A DISSONANCE
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 79 Pages
Who do you want to be?
In 1994, following a rave, three friends go on a protest to ‘kill the Criminal justice bill’. What happens that day leaves its mark for decades to come.
London, GB
I particularly love real stories and looking at ways to tell new narratives around true events. I've had attachments at Soho & the National Theatre was part of the 2016 Drama Room @ BBC Writersroom & on the BBC New Talent Hotlist. Alfred Fagon Award 2008 & Roland Rees Bursary 2023. Work I'm proud of includes: Monday (John Whiting award shortlist)...
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An Act of Love
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 100 Pages
Stuck in the wilderness, a young doctor and her favorite actress get tangled in an unlikely affair as they survive the elements, until the man they both love threatens to break them apart.
No bio available.
Bad Call
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 82 Pages
A lonely, retired woman in London rediscovers her joie de vivre through an unlikely friendship with an equally depressed customer service rep in Delhi who shares her passion for Arsenal football club, unaware that he is actually a scammer.
Hong Kong, California, HK
Shane grew up with crippling cultural confusion and his writing tries to reconcile the Indian traditions of his family with with the reality of his adult life. His short 'Diwaloween' was a finalist for Best International Short in 2021 at the 365Holiday film festival. His romantic comedy 'A Widow of No Importance' was produced at East West Players an...
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Be Not Forgetful
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 72 Pages
A med school drop-out doing back alley abortions meets a fallen angel who wants their wings cut off leading to the angel to a human death after hundreds of years of immortality. A play about the choices we have the right to make when it comes to our bodies.
Brooklyn, NY
Tee Hoida, a trans nonbinary writer based in Brooklyn, NY, is on a journey that embraces exploration of identity and an earnest advocacy for human rights, with a particular emphasis on trans rights and bodily autonomy across all genders.
In 2021, Tee completed their Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tee ...
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Brain Hemingway
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 45 Pages
A songwriter with a looming deadline is haunted by the subject of her last theatrical flop: Ernest Hemingway.
No bio available.
BUSHWICK '77
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 82 Pages
Hope (a repeatedly laid off Vet) and Londa (an undocumented Trinidadian) struggle as poverty sinks them to the depths of no electricity or running water. Darkeye, on the run from a murder charge, invites Hope to cash-in on “White-Flight” commissions to burn down buildings. A city-wide electrical blackout grants Londa hours to stop them. Set during N...
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Brooklyn, NY
No bio available.
Charlotte's Letters
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Historical
· 98 Pages
A fresh new take on the Brontës, CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS intertwines Charlotte Brontë's two years as an unpublished young woman at a Belgian school--where she became close to her married male tutor.employer--with her friend and biographer Mrs. Gaskell's struggle to salvage Charlotte's posthumous reputation and trailblazing novels, when Gaskell is forced...
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Jennifer OGrady
No bio available.
Duffy's Cut
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 68 Pages
Two brothers, guided by the ghosts of Duffy's Cut, solve America's oldest true crime cold case.
No bio available.
Furlough's Paradise
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 78 Pages
When her mother dies, Sade receives a 3-day furlough from prison and confronts the only living person who knew her before the cell. Her cousin Mina, seems from a different world.
a.k. payne
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Unknown
· 90 Pages
When Guenevere is confronted by the mythical sword in the stone, it's she, not Arthur who pulls it out, proving she's the rightful heir to Camelot. Her friend, Arthur, wants to seize power for himself and talks her into giving him the sword. Guenevere devotes herself first to helping Arthur, then when she discover's Arthur's true nature, taking back...
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Madsion, CT
Susan Cinoman is a playwright and screenwriter whose work is published and produced internationally. For television, she is the creator of the recurring character, Miss Cinoman on ABC’s, The Goldbergs, and a frequent writer and contributor. Primarily a playwright, Cinoman loves writing in all forms and has sampled most. She's also a mom to daughter...
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Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 54 Pages
A subversive Asian Feminist Allegory, Fiona Yu is an unconventional 30 yr old Chinese-American lawyer torn between her traditional family, her quiet anger at being a fetishized "hello kitty" stereotype, and her desire to live her own life, her own way. This leads her to re-kindling a friendship with the mysterious boy who saved her from her first b...
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No bio available.
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Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 65 Pages
Through a series of vignettes, black couples, strangers, neighbors, and co-workers talk about the intricate realities of their everyday lives, while Nella, the “Holla Hotline” specialist, is just trying to do her job.
Newark, NJ
Alicia (EMC) is an actress, singer and playwright, who was born and raised in Newark, NJ. She received a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Honors English from Drew University. Alicia has performed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Massachusetts. Some of her favorite past credits include Julius Caesar, Canarsie, Murphy’s Law, Macbeth, Paterson Falls, Me...
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High School Antigone
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Musical
· 70 Pages
When the new right-wing school board shuts down a show mid-rehearsal, Arabella and her students turn a rebellious play by Sophocles into a replacement musical. Arabella and her wife are aware of how polarized and scary their small town is becoming. The school board rep's son, who plays Kreon, the strong-minded girl who plays Antigone, the wussier gi...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 130 Pages
1) People are going to hurt you, why try to protect yourself? 2) People are going to hurt you, so protect yourself at all costs. These are the ends of the spectrum Ana finds herself challenging when she befriends Connor, the struggling boyfriend of a close friend. Unsettled yet helpful, Connor becomes an avenue to talk about her recent assault. Her ...
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Los Angeles, California
Poet/Actor/Playwright, Josh Verges lives in Los Angeles. Publications: Collective Unrest magazine. Commissions: Public Assembly Theatre Company; Urban Confessional: A Free Listening Project.
He hopes you're well.
In Defense of Medea
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 143 Pages
A retelling of the gender defying Medea, In Defense of Medea tracks the memories of a trans Latino academic before his utmost diversion from societal sutures.
No bio available.
Lincoln's Children
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 70 Pages
A black female history student struggles to uncover long hidden truths about her ancestor, a female slave who once worked in the Springfield home of Abraham Lincoln.
No bio available.
Maladies
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 87 Pages
What happens when a woman riddled with phobias and anxiety meets a new male neighbor lonely and desperate for friendship?
This play explores the themes of life after tragedy, fighting fears, and letting people into your heart.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 97 Pages
When the answer to Michael’s desperation stumbles in from a blizzard in the form of a wandering poet, he convinces the kid help build a sanctuary that will save the world. But when they kidnap a journalist to write their manifesto, the road to salvation becomes their ruin.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Musical
· 112 Pages
A man caring for his grandmother takes a wild ride through the stories of her past as he struggles to determine her future.
New York, NY
Tom has been writing and developing new works for more than 20 years. With the Lexington Group, he collaborated on “Step In and Stand Clear” and “Ballad of Larry the Flyer,” both workshopped at Ensemble Studio Theatre. “… Larry the Flyer” was selected for the New York International Fringe Festival and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.
With...
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Right
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 71 Pages
Two brothers, one who believes in vaccines, the other an anti-vaxxer, risk tearing their family apart for the sake of being right.
A writing teacher once told me, “Your characters have an interesting way of expressing themselves. A lot of people don’t talk like that.” I’m guessing it’s because I grew up in a house where my mom was born in Okinawa and my father was a barely-high-school-graduate from the Ozarks. I am still intrigued by the way people use language to get what they...
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Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Other
· 39 Pages
Students Blake and Avery prevent a robot takeover of their school. A site-specific show inspired by the 1920 sci-fi play R.U.R. by Karel Capek. Clown routines, audience choice, and immersive elements combine to tell a comic adventure story of child empowerment. For family audiences.
Evanston, IL
As a beloved children’s librarian, Rick Kinnebrew tells ghost stories and fairy tales. His audio and stage plays have played from Chicago to New Orleans. In 2020, his scripts Ten Dollar House and Fog City, were both top 10% finishers for the Nicholl Fellowship. A recent graduate of UCLA's Professional Program in Screenwriting, he knows how to drive ...
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Spitting Image
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 84 Pages
When a student files a complaint about being subjected to a classic short story from the Harlem Renaissance, two estranged high school friends, Taneisha, a Black woman who is now provost at the university, and Nalini, a South Asian woman who is the adjunct instructor who taught the story, are forced into a reunion. Oh! There's also the writer who is...
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No bio available.
SUN SISTERS
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 117 Pages
A daughter's homecoming. A mother's secrets. SUN SISTERS explores the clash between unspoken desires and cultural traditions as one woman's illness forces her to examine her life's choices.
No bio available.
The Dead Woman
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Fantasy
· 99 Pages
After stumbling across a dead woman lying in the garbage outside a convenience store, Zoe and April are stuck in a waiting game, listening to the 911 busy signal. But when Zoe starts seeing the dead woman talking to her, things spin out of control, and nothing seems quite right.
Studio City, CA
Chelsea Sutton is a writer and theatre maker of what she likes to call gothic whimsy. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a Humanitas PlayLA award-winner, a graduate of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. Her macabre steampunk adaptation of Pinocchio written with Rogu...
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The Forever Question
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 82 Pages
Why do people have kids?
Mike is a loving father, happy with his marriage and his life. But when his wife Carolyn mentions casually that she thinks it’s time they have a second child, he begins asking this question. While Carolyn is at first patient, the search for an answer itself becomes a problem of its own. The question takes Mike and Caroly...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 79 Pages
A chance encounter at 27 spins former high school sweethearts Claire and Gideon on a non-linear journey of grief, love, and the enduring ties that bind two people together across eternity. Torn apart by a tragic event their senior year of high school, they must now confront whether their connection is a fleeting memory or a lasting force.
New York, NY
Evan Brodsky is a queer Brooklyn based playwright and actor. His full length plays include The Glass Between Stars (The Tank, 2024; New York Theater Festival, 2021, Winner of Most Creative New Play), Kaleidoscope (Semi-Finalist, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2022), The Memory Centre (reading with Dovecote Reading Series) and For(e)bear ...
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The More Loving One
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 75 Pages
When a sex worker with a billion-dollar tech idea fails to assuage the pain of her unresponsive new client they both cling to - and challenge - each other in ways as unpredictable as the tempest that rages outside.
New York, NY
I used to get in trouble for not sleeping because I would stay up all night acting out stories in my floral-papered bedroom. At some point, I was given a book and a pen and I've been writing ever since. I'm a produced playwright; have authored several screen projects that have received recognition in competitions, and I love dogs and ice baths but n...
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Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 106 Pages
An introverted typeface designer battles his fear of love and human connection while trying not to fumble a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redesign the IKEA logo.
Los Angeles, CA
Thomas adores exploring oddball topics with universal conflicts that speak to audiences in ways they didn't think were possible. He started writing in college where he won an Emmy from the Southeastern Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His stage play was a finalist in Screencraft's play writing contest, his screenplay GROSS PROFIT won the grand...
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This Is My Covenant Which You Shall Keep
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 75 Pages
Estranged from his Orthodox Jewish family, an agnostic doctor is invited to his newborn nephew’s bris, where decades-long resentments are brought to the fore.
No bio available.
Witchduck
Private
Semifinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 106 Pages
WITCHDUCK is an appalling comedy about the absurd lengths to which men will go to control women. A fast-paced, furiously funny feminist folktale told by an all-female ensemble, WITCHDUCK is a story of perseverance, sisterhood and stickin’ it to the man.
Eva DeVirgilis
No bio available.
Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Other
· 46 Pages
B.B.'s is a cozy little New Jersey neighborhood bar/eatery, a crossroads for the regulars, the occasionals, and the passing-through types, each with a story, some poignant, some funny, some sweet...and some a little bit of everything.
Linden, NJ
Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, produced playwright and screenwriter.
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Musical
· 85 Pages
Based on an Ecuadorian legend, this horror musical tells the story of Jacinta, an Indigenous woman who finds work in an elegant house, 1028 Manor, whose residents have recently gone through a tragedy. Soon, Jacinta finds herself having strange dreams and learning dark secrets that put her life in danger as she confronts the ugly truths inside the ho...
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Quito, EC
Born and raised in Quito, Ecuador. My main interests are exploring dark themes in humorous ways and portraying Ecuadorian and Latin American traditions and mythology in an accurate, engaging, and entertaining way.
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 72 Pages
1963, Havana. At an engagement party, a father attempts to protect his family by marrying his daughter off to a high-level member of the regime, but when Fidel Castro makes a surprise appearance, a series of events inadvertently lead to his death, forcing the father to don the beard and pose as the dictator for the evening.
Throughout his life, ...
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Los Angeles, CA
Edward G. Excaliber is a Los Angeles-based, Miami-born Puerto Rican writer, a sci-fi/fantasy videogaming nerd who blends his darkly comedic, self-deprecating voice with emotionally sincere characters, focusing on grounded, personal stories in elevated genre worlds. He began writing comic books, poems and lyrics, eventually focusing on narrative stor...
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Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Thriller
· 57 Pages
On a dark and stormy night with a serial killer on the loose, Olivia is visited by the police and a charming stranger, but ends up haunting them with secrets of her own.
A serial killer on the loose. A deadly storm. Two Strangers. The perfect recipe for a Killer Evening.
Writer, Director, Actor, Author, Student
Writing Credits-
Scroll Hunters: The Drenched City (2020)- novel
A Killer Evening @ Flat 44 (2024)- stage play
A KISS LIKE NO OTHER
Private
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 75 Pages
No logline available.
Steve Monroe
No bio available.
A Little Problem
Private
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Other
· 66 Pages
“A Little Problem” is a full length play about a young couple who live in Manhattan and strive to be part of that Upper class that Americans pretend does not exist.
The problem starts when their young child begins to exhibit signs of anti-social behavior, biting them, being cruel to animals, hitting other children, threatening the couple's NYC so...
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Debra Victoroff
No bio available.
A Lovely Wife
Private
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 80 Pages
A playwright and wife of a candidate for Congress learns of his infidelity and indirectly causes a death. The spirit of early 20th century painter Hilma af Klint urges her to write a play about the incident. Facing up to her angry and cynical husband, she tells her story.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 104 Pages
In today’s society, a woman carries her fears and dread with her in the form of a notebook that no one else cares to open. When her terrifying predictions come to fruition, the men in her life come face to face with reality of a woman’s world.
Berkeley, California
I am a writer who focuses primarily on stories of women's health. Outside of writing I am a graduate student studying maternal, child, and adolescent health. I value learning, teaching, and understanding, and I hope to use my writing to tell stories that teach the experiences of women and children.
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Drama
· 89 Pages
Faced with an existential crossroads, brilliant math student Jay quits his program to visit his unwell mother and travel. However, when a strange old man appears and claims to know things about Jay's mother's past that Jay was never aware of, a home visit becomes an investigation into Jay's family history. A dramedy about a personal price of doing s...
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Madison, Wisconsin
I was born in the Soviet Russia. Got a B.A. in Playwriting from Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow (Russian Yale, an excellent school). Then worked as a dramaturg and a creative writing teacher at a children's theater. Immigrated to the US knowing I'd have to learn to write in English. Got a Master's degree in psychology from Harvard and spent years...
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A Woman Over Forty (the Cabaret)
Private
Quarterfinalist
Stage Play
· Comedy
· 53 Pages
Invisible? I don't think so. A quintet of both dark
comedic monologues and songs that celebrate the trials
and tribulations of 'a woman of a certain age'. No
matter what life throws at them, which is a lot, they
remain FABULOUS!
No bio available.