The Final 30 For the 41st OOB Festival!

We are very proud to announce our final 30 Playwrights for our 41st OOB Festival! Picking just 30 out of the 1,458 submissions we received this year was no easy task — there were many strong contenders. So, please join us in congratulating these incredible playwrights:

  • Gwyn Ballard for The Duet
  • Jennifer Barclay for Tight Curls Today
  • France-Luce Benson for Risen From the Dough
  • Kellen Blair for Madeline 14 Billion Jumps the Track
  • Keith Burton for The Journey
  • Renee Calarco for Bleed
  • John Connon for Ambush
  • Samantha Cooper for The Woman American
  • Carey Crim for Room 313
  • Sunita Deshpande for A Sari for Pallavi
  • Sharron Farrell for Depths
  • Perry Guzzi for Los Demás
  • Timothy Huang for Missing Karma
  • Nicole Greevy, Uma Incrocci, and Erica Jensen for 28 Years Later
  • Jonathan Josephson for Grandpa and the Gay Rabbi
  • Lindsay Joy for The Cleaners
  • Mustafa Kaymak for Green Card
  • Jeffrey James Keyes for Uniforms
  • Andrew Leeds and Lindsey Kraft for Wedding Bash
  • John Minigan for Easter at the Entrée Gold
  • Alex Rubin for Dust and Ash
  • Angela Santillo for Welcome to the Fall
  • Mark Staufenberg for The Mysterious Life, And Even More Mysterious Death, Of That Guy Who Lived Below Max And Beth
  • Angela Stern for Mama’s Eggnog
  • Seamus Sullivan for Valkyrie in the Roller Disco
  • R. Eric Thomas for Human Resources
  • Korde Arrington Tuttle for clarity
  • Lizzie Vieh for Monsoon Season
  • Jane Willis for That Kid
  • Pia Wilson for Mama’s Seeds

Congratulations, Final 30! We can’t wait to see your plays live and on their feet!