all it takes is ONE ACT 2022

First Place: Griswold by Angela J. Davis

Angela J. Davis is the author of The Spanish Prayer Book (The Road Theatre Company 2019-20 season; L.A. Times Best Bet (“a literate meditation on the boundaries of art  and social responsibility”), AGATHE (2020 New American Voices Award - The Landing Theatre,  2021 SETC Getchell Award for Outstanding Full-Length Play, 2021 Jane Chambers Award  Finalist and Honoree), Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear (commissioned in 2020 by  Antaeus Theatre Company), and Griswold (2021 Arts & Letters Prize Finalist and National  Women’s Theatre Festival Official Selection) among other plays.  

Recent work presented/forthcoming at Playhouse on the Square, Playhouse Creatures (NYC) The  Landing Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, Sohaya Visions (London), Chameleon Theatre  Circle, HRC Showcase, The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Theatre In the Raw  (Vancouver), The Dayton Playhouse, Viterbo, and elsewhere.  

The Recipient of multiple playwriting honors, she’s also authored poetry and prose pieces appearing in The Antioch Review, Art/Life, and a University of Iowa Press anthology and was one of sixteen writers selected as Literary Hosts for the 2018 PEN America LitFest. Degrees from Stanford and UCLA; member of Dramatists Guild, PEN America, and the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab.

Second Place: Uncut by Gloria Majule

Gloria Majule is a playwright from Dodoma, Tanzania presently residing in Seattle, WA. She has been a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, a two time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a semifinalist for the Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series. Her plays have been developed at Stockton University, Westport Country Playhouse, Yale Cabaret, Aye Defy, Yale School of Drama, and the Schwartz Center for Performing and Media Arts. Gloria seeks to tell stories that bring multiple black voices together from across the world, and are accessible to black audiences no matter where they are. She writes primarily for and about the black diaspora. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama and graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish.

Third Place: The Little Sister by Alli Hartley-Kong

Alli Hartley-Kong is a playwright, poet, and public history activist. She has written short plays and monologues produced by Irvington Theatre (Irvington, NY), Open Eye Theatre (Margaretville, NY), The Barn Theatre (Montville, NJ), Apollo Civic Theatre (Martinsburg West Virginia), Fusion Theatre (New Mexico). She has received commissions from Single Carrot Theatre (Baltimore, MD) and Central Square Theatre (Boston MA). In her day job, Alli works as a public historian and museum educator. She conceived and executed the nationally-recognized #DayofFacts campaign in 2017, which engaged over 300 cultural institutions worldwide to post content undermining the idea of “alternative facts”. Currently, she is working with colleagues on a documentary theatre piece about the experience of professional loss in the cultural sector during the pandemic. Alli would like to recognize her undergraduate women’s history professor, Dr. Robyn Muncy of the University of Maryland, for providing a comprehensive and thoughtful introduction to the history of abortion in America.