One-Act Play Festival

BEST PLAY

Seedubya and Mizhall

by John C. Davenport

In a Dallas barbershop in the 1960s, an elderly white woman has her first encounter with the Black shoeshine man she has always resented. Featuring Eldred Brown and Lilian Moore, directed by Meg Gilbert, the winning play was written by a Seattle playwright originally from Dallas. Davenport wins the $1,000 Verna Safran Prize.

PREVIOUS FINALISTS

2022
BEST PLAY: THE MOCKINGBIRD’S NEST by Craig Bailey – Shelburn, VT
SHELL GAME by Meg Hanna-Tominaga – Spartanburg, SC
DEEP FREEZE by James C. Ferguson – Plainville, MA
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? by Philip J. Kaplan – Brooklyn, NY

2021
BEST PLAY: THAT KISS by DC Cathro – Chicago, IL
WINDOW WASHER by Marlene Shyer – New York, NY
CENSUS by Susan Miller – New York, NY
ME TALKING 2 ME by Shoshannah Boray – Burlington, MD

2019
BEST PLAY: IMMUREMENT by David L. Williams – Bellefonte, PA
GROWL by J. Lois Diamond – New York NY
IVY WALLS by Karen Cecilia – Brooklyn, NY
PROVENANCE by Ian Patrick Williams – Studio City, CA

2018
BEST PLAY: TAGGED by Jim Moss – Tampa FL
MOTHERLESS CHILD by Peggy Aultman – Covington LA
RAW FISH by Emma Mercier – Pleasant Hill, CA
SOUNDS FROM THE MERRY-GO-ROUND by Stephen Stewart – Sugar Land, TX