The following is the shortlist for this quarter-finals ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition 2025. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 800 submissions. Congratulations to the authors so far, and thanks to everyone who submitted!
Stay tuned for the announcement of the semi-finalists on January 22 on our blog and on our website twitter, Facebookand Instagram Number of pages! If you would like to be notified when this competition reopens for entry, you can subscribe to updates through Coverfly here.
Here are the quarterfinalists:
| “BB” | Bill Mays Jr. |
| Chapter 1028 Manor | Munir Abedlabo Campana |
| 638: An unusually hilarious look back at the unexpected assassination attempt on Fidel Castro | Edward G. Excaliber |
| Disharmonious | Paul Station B |
| A Killer Night @ Apartment 44 | Ansh Kapoor |
| unique kiss | Steve Monroe |
| a small problem | Debra Victoroff |
| lovely wife | Michael Bulger |
| A Series of Speeches I Wish I Never Said | Thalia Neely |
| Waste is a terrible thing | Jenna Gilnina |
| wake up in chaos | Chris Smith |
| Women Over Forty (Cabaret) | Lindsay Brown |
| Alice Wareham and the Fiction of Time | Catherine Yu |
| Alumni Relations | Brendan Persu |
| American Eucharist | thomas moore |
| act of love | Farida Pasha |
| an apple a day | Nicholas Camacho |
| A terrifying adventure: The Wake at Neverland | adam core |
| Andy Warhol’s Tomatoes | Meloki wins |
| Anneliese | Aude Gross |
| Antigagone, a well-intentioned work | Nick Gershon |
| anything on the blackboard | Erica Hart |
| attorney-client | Alex Ladd |
| bad call | Sean Sahrani |
| barn cat | Joshua Ross |
| don’t forget | Keep |
| bionics | jenna jane |
| black bear island | Carissa Murrell Myers |
| Botti | Simon Brown |
| Brian Hemingway | Erin Murray Quinlan |
| brave new york | kennady shawn |
| breakpoint | Andrada Angeleri |
| Bushwick ’77 | James Jocelyn |
| Cassandra | Christopher Miller |
| casualties | Joe DiMiceli |
| charlotte’s letter | Jennifer O’Grady |
| clean slate | Rachel Rayson |
| clinton summit | Rich Rubin |
| clock like angel | Kyle Thomas |
| crime novel | Deirdre Gillard |
| Sprints and conflicts during the holidays | John Sparrow |
| Dear John, why Yoko? | Anzu Lawson |
| Death/Game, or the Insane Clown in the Warsaw Ghetto | Henry Greenspan |
| desert death reversal | Bailey Macieak |
| dizzy and in love | Rosemary Ziebart |
| dog mom | Tate Elizabeth Hanyock |
| Duffy’s cut | Liz Cole |
| Eat dirt | Matilda Shulman |
| echo of sorrow | Rodrigo Tejado |
| edmund and astronaut | Roskelly |
| elephant | Leah Barsanti |
| exhibition | Derek Masterson |
| Hunger is stronger than the body’s needs | Brian Farley-Ratz |
| Fuad of Nazareth | Fouad Daqwal |
| freedom dream | Roy Blackman |
| Fucking straight man | Joey Capuana |
| vacation paradise | akpen |
| Lucky Lady Motel Goddess | Nimisha Radwa |
| Godot show | Joel Kalinsky |
| Must go to Savoy | Tam’s favorite |
| Guerneville | Susan Simonorman |
| plate of flour | Sofia Palmeiro |
| robbery | lacra disease |
| Hell in the Northwoods Cabin | Kim Ruyle |
| Hello Kitty must die | Gail Lastover, Curt Jones |
| Beautiful | Aude Gross |
| Hey! I heard you are black | Alicia Vevers |
| antigone high school | Judy Klass |
| Home | Nathaniel Roberts |
| I do not speak Spanish | David Ramon Zayas |
| i know exactly what i’m doing | Josh Wagers |
| i love you elizabeth warren | Laura Neal |
| Imaginary Girls: The Career of Patty Hearst (Alternative Identity Musical) | Leonard Dolivio Cetrangolo |
| Defend Medea | San Sebastian Lane |
| marley | Guy Nolan, Luis Ugaz |
| jack and melissa | Matthew MacLachlan |
| Jane, the Queen’s Fool | Barbara Blattner |
| joe goes to woo | Evan Laughlin |
| Joseph Bolonge | Deborah Platt |
| judgment of eyes | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Juggernaut | Ciara Nye Churk |
| washing machine | Ryan Luevano |
| universal law | Suzanne Traus |
| Leroy’s blood | Shanti Reinhart |
| lighthouse | wilson |
| lincoln’s children | Mike McGeever |
| long division | aja houston |
| long drive home | Stephen Kaplan |
| lost girl | Joshua Brewer |
| luck and money | tom rooney |
| Made in heaven | Steven Bogart |
| disease | Chris Sherman |
| man of honor | Pierson Jenks |
| marlowe part 2 | Simon Bowler Khan |
| middletown mall | alapai lava |
| missed opportunity | Jillian Leff |
| modern prometheus | Tony Fang |
| monster in our blood | Rhiannon Lin |
| move – bend – fall | Ash Shiraz |
| The Muse: A Story of Love and Sonnets | Shannon Chin |
| My Lateral Life: Drama! | Isadora O’Botto |
| new eden | Heidi Clay |
| obituary | Rebecca Chase |
| Off-White; or Arab House Party Drama | Alyssa Haddad-Chin |
| Oh, calm down | Charlotte Anne-Tilley |
| glance | Steven Snell |
| pattern | Michael Hoffman |
| Pearl is in the house | missing art |
| Play directly | Gary Wright, Richard Winters, Kerri Yund |
| plead | Patricia Marcantonio |
| poor player | Ronald Keller |
| artist portrait | Richard DeMarco |
| pot odds | Gabriel Wagnerman |
| love and coffee | Raina Patel |
| track | Tom Patterson Kelly, Tom Kenaston |
| red devil | Andrea Bertin |
| Red River Falls | Steven Haworth |
| refill | Steve Silverman |
| correct | Daryl Wynyard |
| two robots | Rick Kinnabrough |
| Sam is gone | Todstein |
| save people | Kevin Brody |
| scars and stains | Matilda Colley Shulman |
| sex worker revenge | Lori Mara |
| fragments | Joel Dotti |
| Soledad | Jay Robinson |
| spitting images | Nimisha Radwa |
| station identification | Ben Sigler |
| stolen moment | Sean Barbar |
| stuck | Joy Cheryl Brown |
| sun sisters | Vasanti Saxena |
| swim | Kate Hickey |
| Swing, swing, you sinners | Lowell Thomas |
| Ant | Alex McDonald |
| the art of arson | Hutchins Foster |
| blacksmith | Gina Lennox, Barzoo Mansour |
| blackstone conference | Lisa Kilazian |
| book elevator | Brooke Pierce |
| dead woman | Chelsea Sutton |
| Decide | Carlos Perez |
| enemy of state | Simon Bowler Khan |
| eternal question | James Christie |
| Sigh secretly | Eric Suben |
| Strong wind | Timothy Jones |
| violet shaw’s ghost | Caterina Bakoulias |
| glass between stars | Evan Brodsky |
| big liar | Douglas Rappaport |
| The Impossible Escape of Don Mistrizo | Holboden |
| Mission impossible today | Jeff Ball |
| incest | Ruth Apollonia Zamoita |
| lark | Portoroacca Justinian |
| The last involuntary celibate | Jamie Sykes |
| The last tram | Meikang |
| The loudest man on earth | Catherine Rush |
| Someone I love more | D Tucker Smith |
| prop runner | Rob Gruen |
| Agile brown fox jumps over lazy dog | Thomas Jungberg |
| rice eaters | Yide Cai |
| silver thread | Jocelyn Housley McLaughlin |
| social secretary | Alan Price |
| The Tragedy of Tiberius Gracchus | Stephen Bonino |
| victim | Kyle Mumford |
| victorian detective team | Patricia Milton |
| woman drawing starry sky | Joyce Van Dyke |
| Wound | Kuros Chani |
| There is inherent | Kyle Thomas |
| This happened at a romantic station off I-87 in Westchester | Gina Femia |
| this is crazy | Deb Hitt |
| This is the government | Nina Kissinger |
| This is my covenant, you must abide by it | Yechezker Zach Greenberg |
| three kings | Larkin-Bute Village |
| Throw the bird to Tippi Hedley | Ted Chastain |
| Go to life | Eve Lederman |
| traces of desire | Lena Patel |
| Trouble Deaf Paradise | Michaelia Mendoza |
| unconditionally | Delamari Parilli |
| Under the Rainbow: There’s No Place Like Home | Roger Holzberg |
| upsends | Mark Wyatt |
| Valere | Mandy Murphy |
| VENUS FLYTRAP Women’s Black Mystery Watch | Anthony Dodge |
| Patina | Jim Beaver |
| Waiting for Lon Chaney | wesley williams |
| walk-in | Marco Antonio Rodriguez |
| We open in the red desert | Luke Herzog |
| what will we become | Joseph Tristino |
| will | Rob Badram |
| witch duck | Eva de Vigilis |
| dignified | Victoria Fragnito |
| no god as my lover | Megan Medley |
| Zek | Ramon Esquivel |
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