REVA SHINER COMEDY AWARD

The Reva Shiner Comedy Award presents an unpublished full-length comedy with a cash prize of $1,000, a full production as part of the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s Mainstage season, along with travel reimbursement. We are currently accepting submissions for the 2020-21 Season. Scripts must be postmarked by October 31, 2019.

Previous winners have gone on to enjoy productions around the world and to garner additional honors such as the National Play Award.

2019-20 Award

Winner

Congratulations to our 2019-20 Reva Shiner Comedy Award WINNER:

The Burdens by Matt Schatz

Finalists:

The Empress of the Laundry Room by Paulette MacDougal
Split Pea Pod by Alex Dremann
Love Quest by Mary Maguire and Steven McGraw
Average American by Susan Miller
When We Get Good Again by James McLindon
Stuck by Chris Widney
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector
The Clearing in the Jacoby by Deb Hiett
Everything is Established by Hannah Kenah

Guidelines for Submissions

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2020-21 Reva Shiner Comedy Award.

“Full-length” plays should have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes).
Plays submitted must be unpublished at the time of submission.
Each submission should be sent to BPP via email. Send your email to [email protected].org
Your email should include the following:
1. Tell us for which competition you are submitting: Reva Shiner Comedy or the script Woodward Newman Drama
2. Tell us your name, phone number, and the name of your Play
3. Tell us how you are satisfying the $10 administrative fee
  1. Agent submitted scripts require no fee.
  2. If via Dramatist Guild membership, attach a copy of your DG card to the email
  3. If you have paid via Paypal on our website, indicate your confirmation number and the email address used.
  4. Paypal is preferred, but if you can’t pay on-line, you may send a check or Money Order, (must be from a US bank). Tell us the check or Money Order number. Make it payable to “BPP” and mail to BPP, 107 W 9th ST, Bloomington, IN 47404
Attach a PDF file containing your script with the following information included in the following order:
1. Title page with author name
2. Synopsis (1 page or less)
3. Character list/breakdown
4. Production history for the play—Include readings and productions
5. A brief bio of the playwright,
6. Full Script
7. Submissions that fail to include all requested information in the order listed will be disqualified from the contest.
8. Plays submitted in previous years will be accepted.
9. Two separate submissions per playwright per annual competition are allowed as long as each submission has all the required materials.

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Past Winners

2019-2020 The Burdens by Matt Schatz
2018-2019 Apropos of Nothing by Greg Kalleres
2017-2018 Beating a Dead Horse by Jenny Stafford
2016-2017 Thirty Day Mourning Period by Hank Greene
2015-2016 Billy Witch by Gregory S Moss
2014-2015 Kalamazoo by Michelle Kholos Brooks & Kelly Younger
2013-2014 Mad Gravity by William Missouri Downs
2012-2013 Ampersand by Vincent Delaney
2011-2012 I Am Grock by Amanda Rogers
2010-2011 Artifice by Anne Flanagan
2009-2010 Naked in the Kitchen by Lynda Martens
2008-2009 Sans Merci by Johnna Adams
2007-2008 Work by Terri Wagener
2006-2007 Empty Sky by Sarah Treem
2005-2006 The Housewives of Mannheim by Alan Brody
2004-2005 The New Jersey Book of the Dead by Jason Grote
2003-2004 Maleficia-200: A Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches by Suzanne Wingrove
2002-2003 Menace of ‘64 by Mark Ulrich
2001-2002 New World Rhapsody by Adam Kraar
2000-2001 Outrage by Itamar Moses
1999-2000 The Return of Morality by Jamie Pachino
1998-1999 Alice in Ireland by Judy Sheehan
1997-1998 Medea with Child by Janet Burroway
1996-1997 My Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin
1995-1996 Between Men and Cattle by Richard Kalinoski
1994-1995 Tobacco Legacy by Wesley Webb
1993-1994 Nobody’s Flood by Glenn Alterman