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The Reva Shiner Comedy Award presents an unpublished full-length comedy with a cash prize of $1,000, a full production as part of the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s Mainstage season, along with travel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 2021-22 Season. Scripts must be submitted by October 31, 2020.

Previous winners have gone on to enjoy productions around the world and to garner additional honors.

Due to COVID-19 precautions, the Bloomington Playwrights Project will have a limited live performance schedule for the 2020/2021 season. Our Reva Shiner Comedy Award winner JUST BETWEEN THE ALL OF US will get it’s full production in April 2021. Our Woodward/Newman drama winner QUEEN BEE will receive it’s full production as part of our 2021/2022 season.

2020-21 Award

Winner

Congratulations to our 2020-21 Reva Shiner Comedy Award WINNER:

Just Between the All of Us – Music by David Christensen, Book and Lyrics by Sarah Ziegler Blair and Kellen Blair

Finalists:

Chicken and Biscuits by Douglas Lyons
Book of Maggie by Brendan Bourque-Sheil
Family Game Night by Peter Kennedy
Writer’s Block by Christopher Canaan
Guilty Pleasures by Ken Levine
Suprema by Phil Keeling
Bayville High School Parents’ Book Club by Vicki Riba Koestler

Guidelines for Submissions

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2021-22 Reva Shiner Comedy Award. The winner will be announced by June 2021.

“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Plays submitted must be unpublished at the time of submission.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]
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