11th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest Recognized Plays
The 11th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest
Recognized Submissions
These plays represent a giant array of Jewish perspectives and identities. An Artists Panel of 87 readers read 250 plays with a truly extraordinary depth and passion; the top 40 plays received at least seven reads each. We want to recognize the many extraordinary plays and writers that excited, engaged, amused, and moved us. The plays on this list have earned their achievement.
Finalists
I Was A Stranger Too by Cynthia Cooper
Say Goodbye by A.R. Cohen/Corwin
Strawberries at the Datcha by Gena Treyvus
To Reach Across a River by Marshall Botvinick
Semi-Finalists
Esther and Vashti by Carolyn Gage
Female, Ashkenazi With A Sewing Machine by Jamie Greenblatt
L’Dor v’Dor by Lojo Simon
Nights of Broken Glass by India Kotis
simply so much night by Nigel Berkeley
Speak Freely by Andrea Fiest Stein
Stills by Sarah Sigal
Tamar (The Two-Gated City) by Emma Goldman-Sherman
The Secret Wisdom of Trees by Christine Toy Johnson
Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kyle McCloskey
Honorable Mentions
All the Things We’re Supposed to Be by Laura Hirschberg
Alternative Canon by Erin Proctor
And. . . Again by Dylan Brody
Aphrah-Cadabra by Andrea Markowitz
Finding Mr. Rightstein by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
It’s a Dry Heat by Barbara Bellman
Shanghai by Linda Alper
SWEET SPOT: The Fleeting Glory of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton by Germaine Shames
The Jewish Question by Jeanmarie Simpson
The Store by Tiffany Parks
Wherever You Go… by Adam Kraar
“The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare (or at least our best approximation) by D.A. Mindell