Announcing the Winners

11/12 AwareFest Local & National Play Contests

National: Hombres by Stephen Massicotte

Local: The Great and All Wet Water Balloon Battle by Mark Kingsbury

Announcing the winners of the 11/12 AwareFest Local & National Play Contests

NATIONAL CONTEST

1st Place.  Hombres by Stephen Massicotte

2nd Place.  A Very Lovely Dress by D. Richard Tucker
3rd Place.  The Eagle and the Dragon at St. Edward’s Elemiddle School by Matt Hanf
4th Place.  The Homeschooling of Jonathan Anderson by Sean C Lewis
5th Place.  The Boy on the Wall by Dave Carley

Honorable Mention
Seldom is Heard by Mary Steelsmith
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by Gayle Pazerski
D&D&W&P by Fred Betzner

LOCAL CONTEST

1st Place.  The Great and All Wet Water Balloon Battle by Mark Kingsbury

2nd Place.  Conference at the UN by Cat Brassell
3rd Place.  Cry Havoc by Joseph Walker
4th Place.  Godwin’s Law by Margot Morgan
5th Place.  At Home with Israel by Noah Sandweiss

The 1st place winners will have their play produced as part of the AwareFest production of Bomb|Shell in September/October of 2011 alongside many prominent playwrights.


Previous winners of the 10/11 AwareFest Play Contests

The 2010 AwareFest: A Green World enlightened audiences through productions pertaining to environmental issues such as alternative energy sources, sustainable living, carbon footprints, water conservation, and other topics relating back to the year's theme.

Lifecycle Local High School Winners

1st Place – The Rocks by Erdin Schultz-Bever

2nd Place – That’s Not Love in the Air by Elizabeth Anderson

3rd Place – Frets…Not Freaks by Nicole Cox

4th Place – Logging Around by Abi Caron

5th Place – Cause of Death by Keagan Vaughan, Rhian Tanner, Ayanna Ince, Susannah Lodge-Rigal

Local Winners

1st Place – Six Lights by Joseph Walker

2nd Place – Buckle by Emily Goodson

3rd Place – Tragedy of the Commons by Tracy Bee

4th Place – Our Old Tree by Kelly Lusk

5th Place – The Water Monopoly by Kaylee Spivey

National Winners

1st Place – Time to Change the Pitch by Trace Crawford

2nd Place – Big Jimmy Bob’s Hot Lot by Patricia Jang

3rd Place – Green Dating by Chantal Bilodeau

4th Place – Jammed by Alex Broun

5th Place – After Dark by Lavinia Roberts

Last year's winning plays were produced alongside such nationally renowned playwrights as:

Craig Wright - Emmy nominee for Six Feet Under, Lost, Dirty Sexy Money, Brothers & Sisters, The Pavilion (ATCA Best New Play nominee)
Jon Marans - Pulitzer-Prize finalist for Old Wicked Songs, The Temperamentals (currently off-Broadway)
Wendy MacLeod - The House of Yes (starring Parker Posey), playwright in residence at Kenyon College
Israel Horovitz - Line (longest running off-off-Broadway play of all time), most produced American playwright in French theatre history, two-time OBIE winner
Michael Healey - Governor General's Award for The Drawer Boy, Chalmers Award, multiple Dora Awards