First Place :

Fin and Euba

Audrey Cefaly is a playwright, actor and director in the Washington Metro Area. Her original one-acts have won the Northern Virginia One-Act Festival, Maryland One-Act Festival and the Eastern States One-Act Festival. She placed 2nd in the Nantucket Short Play Festival, was a two-time finalist in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and recently received a reading of her play Fin and Euba at the acclaimed Ensemble Studio Theatre. By day, Audrey is a Web Designer at Phillips in Potomac , MD. She resides in Bowie, MD with her husband and 8-year-old son Thomas.

Finalists

La Llorona

Monica Flory is the resident playwright at the New Acting Company in Greenwich Village, NYC. Her most recent commissioned work is THE JUNGLE BOOK, which the New York Times called “both scrupulously faithful to Rudyard Kipling and completely original in its approach.” THE JUNGLE BOOK has upcoming productions at Youth Theatre Northwest in Seattle and Southern Oregon University.
Her family play WILD THING was commissioned for The New Acting Company in 2003. NYTheatre.com proclaimed it “a play with a message that everybody can learn from, told in a stylish and clever way so that everybody can enjoy it.”
Her plays for adults include SCRATCH, which has been produced in three separate productions at Theatre-Studio, Inc. (TSI) in Manhattan . Her comedy SEDUCTION has been produced twice at TSI. Monica teaches and directs at Poly Prep School in Brooklyn, NY.

Liberal Arts

Don LaPlant is a playwright, teacher, and director originally from Cobleskill, New York. His plays have been presented in readings and productions in New York, Tennessee , Oregon , Arkansas , Nebraska , and Virginia . His one-act monodrama, “Resolutions,” had its professional premiere in 2002, produced by Actors Theatre of Talent, Oregon in a year-long statewide tour. He co-wrote (with Jonelle Grace) the book and lyrics for the children’s musical _All Aboard_, which was professionally produced and toured by ArtsLive in Fayetteville , Arkansas in 1994. More recently, Don’s play _Two Body Problems_ was selected as a finalist for the Edward Albee/Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab in 2003. Don is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America , and holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in Theatre. He currently lives in Emory , Virginia where he serves as Head of the Pre-professional Directing program in the Theatre Department at Emory & Henry College.

Pipe Dream

JudyLee Oliva was born and raised in the South.  She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in Theater and Drama from Northwestern University.  Her work has been seen by audiences from coast to coast including New York City , Chicago , and Los Angeles .  Not only a playwright, she works as an actress, lyricist and scholar.  Oliva is a published playwright and author of two books on theater, and  has contributed chapters to several other books, and published over thirty articles on theater in a variety of journals. She has worked in Professional theater in Chicago and New York as well as regional and academic theater.  She enjoys conducting playwriting workshops while developing her own work and has served as Artist in Residence in a wide variety of settings.  Of Chickasaw descent, her work in Native American Theater has been honored by numerous awards. In 2005, she was named as one of the Dynamic Women of the Chickasaw Nation.  She resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lil’ Heroes

Stephanie Timm’s most recent script Frankenocchio, opened the 2004-2005 season at the Empty Space Theatre. Her other original works include "Break My Body," "Love Play," "The Frog," "Big Fish Smalls Pond," "Once Upon a Holy Night," and "Cry Fire." Her work has been performed in Seattle at On the Boards, Capitol Hill Arts Center, ACT Theatre as part of the FringeACT Festival of New Original Work, Seattle Fringe Festival, Live Girls!, Mae West Festival, Freehold Studio Series, and R.E.D. Studio among others. Her late night series "Knee Deep in Thin Air" was commissioned by Capitol Hill Arts Center, and the first episode entitled "The Hand of Destiny" will premiere in winter 2006. Stephanie teaches with the Young Playwrights Program through ACT Theatre, and she is a Principal Playwright with Seattle Dramatists.