Playwrights
List of Fall Festival Winners by Year
1993
Cutlasses by Susan diRende
The Oregon Trail Play by Doris Baizley
The Last Hanging in Pike County by Janice Kennedy
Only the Dead Know Burbank by Peter Lefcourt
Smith of Wooten Major by Jeff Richardson and Hal Ferdig
Stolen from Gypsies by Noble Smith
Mary Todd Lincoln by Warren Carlson
1994
Alice in Panto-Land by Jim Giancarlo and Darcy Danielson
Circles by S. Michele McFadden
Under Yelena by Buffy Sedlachek
Faded Glory by Tim Burns
Werewolf Blues by Vanessa Nowitsky
When God Came to Babylon by Dori Appel
1995
Shooting Stars by Peter Saldamando
The Real, Real Thing (now The Taste Test) by Frank Higgins
Miss Coffin and Mrs. Blood by Sandy Diamond
The Magic Fire by Lillian Garrett-Groag
The Magic Stone by Michael Mish
Kingdom of Crump by Dori Appel
Dear Katherine by Judith Montague
1996
Pictures at an Inhibition by Mark Berman
Voices from Black Canyon by Toby Armour
The Washington-Sarajevo Talks by Carla Seaquist
One Glorious Afternoon by Alexander Steele
A Paradise of Fools by Michael E. Wolfson
The Yellow Room by Terry Baum
Ink by Tony Foster
Orwell in Orlando by Lee Patton
1997
Freud’s Girls by Dori Appel
The Man Who Ran the World by Leonard Gross
Oscar Wilde’s Wife by Rhonda Spinak
Speaky-Spikey-Spokey by David Rambo
The Famous Tuscan Springs by Byron Burruss and Joe Hilsee
1998
A Festival of Lights by James S. Henerson
Cupid’s Bones by Steve Murray
Everyday People by Ignacio Zulueta
Portraits by Colleen Pickett
1999
Invasion of Privacy by Larry Parr
St. Colm’s Inch by Robert Koon
The Sins of Sor Juana by Karen Zacarías
The Return to Morality by Jamie Pachino
2000
The Memoirs of JFK by Leonard Gross
Cyber Serenade by Mia McCullough
Kate and Kafka by Carla Seaquist
SWM by Gregory Foote
2001
Knowing Cairo by Andrea Stolowitz
Betty Thorpe by James Armstrong
Peanut Butter and Jelly by James Wall
Daedalus by David Davalos
2002
Eat and Run by Karl Tiedemann
Freak Show by John Giblin
Countess and Chicago May by Raymond Hardie
The Linden Tree by Lois Roisman
2003
Alas, Poor Yorick by Gary Seger
Legerdemain by Michael Wolfson
Maternal Spirits by James Caputo
Luke’s Dad by Robert Barnett
2004
Solomon’s Blade by Lisa Beth Allen
By Moonlight by Ann Noble
Drop Everything by Phyllis Purscell
Reckoning Angel by Robert Barnett
2005
Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino
Odin’s Horse by Robert Koon
Leonardo by John Fiorillo
Desert Sailing by Jerry Evans
2006
The Garden of Dromore (now Dusk) by James McLindon
Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe? by Vanda
At the Heart of Art by Lydia Bruce and Andrew S. Burns
Exit Polls by Daniel C. Beck
2007
The Language of Trees by Steven Levenson
Saving Grace by James McLindon
Acceptable Risk by Paula Fell
Such Moments (now In the Dream Castle) by Drew Katzman
2008
A Death Defying Act by Barbara Lindsay
Loyalties by Tony Pasqualini
Mystery Spot by Steve Lyons
Song of Extinction by E.M. Lewis
2010
A Gold Star in the Window by Harlene Goodrich
The Exceptionals by Bob Clyman
The Insidious Impact of Anton by David Hilder
Technicolor Life by Jami Brandli
2011
Countdown to the Happy Day by Thomas W. Stephens
Couples by Gary Dontzig
Fernando by Steven Haworth
Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians by Carol Verburg
2012
The God Game by Suzanne Bradbeer
How It Works by Cary Pepper
Omission by Joshua Rebell
This Rough Magic (now The Truth Quotient) by Richard Manley
2013
A Question of Words by Richard Manley
The Boatwright by Bo Wilson
Other Than Honorable by Jamie Pachino
Sleeping Dogs by Robert John Ford
2014
A Little Quid Pro Quo (now The Good Bet) by Bob Clyman
The Groyser by James Harmon Brown
Homecoming by Michael Edan
Irreversible by Jack Karp
2015
The Luckiest People by Meridith Friedman
The Bottle Tree by Beth Kander
The Return of Tartuffe by Brian Mulholland
And Vaster by Skye Robinson Hillis
2016
EdanEv by Mike Teele
The Madres by Stephanie Alison Walker
Hazardous Materials by Beth Kander
Oberon Springs by Michael Erickson
2017
A Dark Sky Full of Stars by Don Zolidis
Go. Please. Go. by Emily Feldman
Sofonisba by Callie Kimball
What We Were by Blake Hackler
2018
The Excavation of Mary Anning by Ian August
Primary User by Nate Eppler
Cold Spring by Victor Lesniewski
The Abuelas by Stephanie Alison Walker
2019
Starter Pistol by Michael Gotch
Pelicans by David Johnston
The Way North by Tira Palmquist
The Night Climber by Joshua Rebell
2020
Zero by Ian August
Hyannis by Kari Bentley-Quinn
Truth Be Told by William Cameron
Those Days Are Over by David Hilder
The Communist Revolution: A Ninth-Grade European History Project (There Will Be a Practical Demonstration) by Grace McLeod
2021
Pocket Universe by Thomas Brandon
Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family by TyLie Shider
What Happened While Hero Was Dead by Meghan Brown
Last Drive to Dodge by Andrew Lee Creech
2022
Chapters of a Floating Life by Clarence Coo
Breakfast at the Bookstore by Lisa Langford
The Hunt for Benedetto Montone by Victor Lesniewski
Remains and Returns by Novid Parsi
Best Available by Jonathan Spector
2023
Lyon’s Pride by Bleu Beckford Burrell
Ashland by Isabel Estelle
Long Time Coming by Weston Gaylord