“Unveiling the Next Theatrical Sensations: Meet the Quarterfinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition!”
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| “B.B.’s” | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| 1028 Manor | Munir Abedrabbo Campana |
| 638: An Uncommonly Comical Review of an Accidental Assassination Attempt of Fidel Castro | Edward G. Excaliber |
| A DISSONANCE | Paula B Stanic |
| A Killer Evening@ Flat 44 | Annsh Kapoor |
| A Kiss Like No Other | Steve Monroe |
| A Little Problem | Debra Victoroff |
| A Lovely Wife | Michael Bulger |
| A Series of Speeches I Hope I Never Say | Talia Neally |
| A Terrible Thing To Waste | Janna Jilnina |
| A Waking at the Motley | Chris Smith |
| A Woman Over Forty (the Cabaret) | Lindsey Brown |
| Alice Wareham and the Fabulation of Time | Catherine Yu |
| Alumni Relations | Brendan Pelsue |
| American Eucharist | Thomas Moore |
| An Act of Love | Fareeda Pasha |
| An Apple a Day | Nicholas Camacho |
| An Awfully Big Adventure: a wake in Neverland | Adam Kern |
| Andy Warhol’s Tomato | Vince Melocchi |
| Annelies | Oded Gross |
| Antigagone, A Well Intended Production | Nic Gershon |
| Anything On A Chalkboard | Erica Hart |
| Attorney-Client | Alex Ladd |
| Bad Call | Shane Sakhrani |
| Barn Cats | Joshua Rose |
| Be Not Forgetful | Tee Hoida |
| Bionic | Jenna Jane |
| Black Bear Island | Karissa Murrell Myers |
| Bothy | Simon Brown |
| Brain Hemingway | Erin Murray Quinlan |
| Brave New York | Kenady Sean |
| Break Point | Andrada Angileri |
| BUSHWICK ’77 | jaymes Jorsling |
| Cassandra | Christopher Miller |
| Casualties | Joe DiMiceli |
| Charlotte’s Letters | Jennifer OGrady |
| Clean Slate | Rachel Leighson |
| Clinton’s Summit | Rich Rubin |
| Clocks Are Like Angels | Kyle Thomas |
| Crime Fiction | Deirdre Girard |
| Dashing and Clashing through the Holidays | John Spellos |
| Dear John, Why Yoko? | Anzu Lawson |
| Death / Play, or the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto | Henry Greenspan |
| Desert Death Reversal | Bailey Macejak |
| Dizzy and Love | Rosemary Zibart |
| DOG MOM | Tate Elizabeth Hanyok |
| Duffy’s Cut | Liz Kerr |
| eat dirt | Matilda Schulman |
| echoes of woe | Rodrigo Tejado |
| Edmund and the Astronaut | Ross Kelly |
| Elephant | Leah Barsanti |
| EXHIBITION | Derek Masterson |
| Fiercer Hunger Than the Body’s Need | Brian Farrey-Latz |
| Fouad of Nazareth | Fouad Dakwar |
| Free to Dream | Roy Blackman |
| Fucking Straight Guys | Joey Capuana |
| Furlough’s Paradise | a.k. payne |
| Goddess at The Lucky Lady Motel | Nimisha Ladva |
| Godot Shows | Joel Karlinsky |
| Got to Get to the Savoy | Tamu Favorite |
| Guenevere | Susan Cinoman |
| Harina Pan | SofÃa Palmero |
| HEIST | Arun Lakra |
| Hellbent in a Northwoods Cabin | Kim Ruyle |
| Hello Kitty Must Die | Gail Rastorfer, Kurt Johns |
| Hermione | Oded Gross |
| Hey! I Heard You’re Black | Alicia Whavers |
| High School Antigone | Judy Klass |
| HOME | Nathaniel Roberts |
| I Don’t Speak Spanish | David Ramón Zayas |
| I Know Exactly What I’m Doing | Josh Verges |
| I Love You Elizabeth Warren | Laura Neill |
| IMAGINARY GIRL: The Occupation of Patty Hearst (an alternative identity musical) | Leonard Dolivio Cetrangolo |
| In Defense of Medea | Lane St Sebastian |
| J. Marley | Guy Noland, Luis Ugaz |
| Jack & Melissa | Matthew McLachlan |
| Jane, Queen’s Foole | Barbara A Blatner |
| Joe Goes Courting | Evan Laughlin |
| Joseph Bolonge | Deborah Pratt |
| Judgment of the Eye | Simon Bowler Khan |
| JUGGERNAUT | Ciara Ni Chuirc |
| La Lavadora | Ryan M. Luevano |
| Laws of the Universe | Suzanne Trauth |
| Lehua’s Blood | Shanti Reinhardt |
| LIGHTHOUSE | abs wilson |
| Lincoln’s Children | Mike McGeever |
| Long Division | Aja Houston |
| Long Drive Home | Stephen Kaplan |
| Lost Girls | Joshua Brewer |
| Luck & Money | Tom Rooney |
| Made in Heaven | Steven Bogart |
| Maladies | Chris Sherman |
| Man of Honor | Pearson Jenks |
| Marlowe Part Two | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Middletown Mall | Lava Alapai |
| Missed Opportunities | Jillian Leff |
| Modern Prometheus | Tony Fong |
| Monsters in Our Blood | Rhiannon Ling |
| MOVE – BEND – FALL | Ash Shirazi |
| MUSE: A Tale of Love and Sonnets | Shannon Chinn |
| My Whorizontal Life: The Play! | Isadora OBoto |
| New Eden | Heidi Kraay |
| Obit | Rebecca Chace |
| Off-White; Or The Arab House Party Play | Alyssa Haddad-Chin |
| Oh, Calm Down | Charlotte Anne-Tilley |
| One Brief Glimpse | Steven Snell |
| Patterns | Michael Hoffman |
| Pearl’s in the House | Art Manke |
| Play It Straight | Gary Wright, Richard Winters, Kerri Yund |
| PLEA | Patricia Marcantonio |
| Poor Players | Ronald Kaehler |
| Portrait Of An Artist | Richard Demak |
| Pot Odds | Gabrielle Wagner Mann |
| Pyar aur Coffee | Rena Patel |
| RAILS | Tom Paitson Kelly, Tom Kenaston |
| Red Devil | Andrea Berting |
| Red River Falls | Steven Haworth |
| Refill | Steve Silverman |
| Right | Darryl Vinyard |
| RUA Robot | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Sam’s Gone Away | Todd Stein |
| Save the Man | Kevin Brodie |
| scars & stains | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Sex Workers’ Revenge | Lori Marra |
| Shattered Pieces | Joël Doty |
| SOLEDAD | J. E. Robinson |
| Spitting Image | Nimisha Ladva |
| Station Identification | Ben Siegler |
| Stolen Moments | Shaun Balbar |
| Stuck | Joy Cheriel Brown |
| SUN SISTERS | Vasanti Saxena |
| SWIM | Kait Hickey |
| Swing, Swing, You Sinners | Lowell Thomas |
| The Ants | Alex MacDonald |
| The Art of Arson | Hutchins Foster |
| The Blacksmith | Gina Lennox, Barzou Mansour |
| The Blackstone Sessions | Lisa Kirazian |
| The Book Lift | Brooke Pierce |
| The Dead Woman | Chelsea Sutton |
| The Decision | Carlos Perez |
| The Enemy of the State | Simon Bowler Khan |
| The Forever Question | James Christy |
| The Furtive Sigh | Eric Suben |
| The Gales | Timothy Jones |
| The Ghost of Violet Shaw | Katerina Bakolias |
| The Glass Between Stars | Evan Brodsky |
| The Great Deceiver | Douglas Rappaport |
| The Impossible Escape of Don Misterioso | Hal Borden |
| The Impossible Task of Today | Jeff Bower |
| The Incels | Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta |
| The Lark | Potoroaca Justinian |
| The Last Incel | Jamie Sykes |
| The Last Tram | Min Kahng |
| The Loudest Man on Earth | Catherine Rush |
| The More Loving One | D Tucker Smith |
| The Prop Runner | Rob Gruen |
| The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog | Thomas Yungerberg |
| The Rice Eaters | Yide Cai |
| The Silver Thread | Joslyn Housley McLaughlin |
| The Social Secretary | Ellen Price |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| The Victims | Kyle C. Mumford |
| The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective | Patricia Milton |
| The Women Who Mapped the Stars | Joyce Van Dyke |
| The Wounds | Kuros Charney |
| There Inherent | Kyle Thomas |
| THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER | Gina Femia |
| This Is Crazy | Deb Hiett |
| This Is Government | Nina Kissinger |
| This Is My Covenant Which You Shall Keep | Yechezkel Zach Greenberger |
| Three Kings | Desa Larkin-Boutte |
| Throwing Birds at Tippi Hedren | Ted Chastain |
| To Life | Eve Lederman |
| Traces of Desire | Lina PATEL |
| Trouble Deaf Heaven | Michaelia Mendoza |
| Unconditional | Dellamarie Parrilli |
| Under The Rainbow: there’s no place like home | Roger Holzberg |
| Upson Downs | Mark Wyatt |
| Valer | Mandy Murphy |
| VENUS FLYTRAP A FEMME NOIR MYSTERY | Anthony Dodge |
| Verdigris | Jim Beaver |
| Waiting for Lon Chaney | Wesley Williams |
| Walk-In | Marco Antonio Rodriguez |
| We Open on a Red Desert | Luke Herzog |
| What We Will Be | Joseph Thristino |
| WILL | Robb Badlam |
| Witchduck | Eva DeVirgilis |
| With Dignity | Victoria Fragnito |
| Without God As My Lover | Megan Medley |
| ZEQ | Ramon Esquivel |
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