Member Awards

Diane Baia Hale's historical drama Rake was named a semi-finalist for Pride Films and Plays 2014 Great Gay Play Contest.  Occupied France, 1944:  When gay actor and secret agent Denis Rake is sent by British intelligence to spy on the Nazis, he never expects to fall in love--with a German officer.  Based on a true story.

Diane Baia Hale's historical drama Rake was named a finalist for the 2013 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition.  Occupied France, 1944:  When gay actor and secret agent Denis Rake is sent by British intelligence to spy on the Nazis, he never expects to fall in love--with a German officer.  Based on a true story.

Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday, a full-length drama, was one of four winners of the 2013 Long Beach (CA) New Works Festival and received a reading during the festival in August 2013.

Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday, a full-length drama, won Second Place and $500 in the 2013 Ft. Wayne (IN) Civic Theatre Annual Playwright Festival and had a reading in June 2013 during the festival.

Victoria Z. Daly's 10-minute comedy CIRCLING THE GLOBE is a winner of Longwood University's 2014 0 to 60 Competition.  

Victoria Z. Daly's short play Far North was nominated for a 2013 Perry Award for Best Production of an Original Play by the New Jersey Assocition of Community Theaters. The play was produced as part of Old Library Theatre's "4 x 4" in Fair Lawn, NJ, in February.

Last Chance Leduc by Edmonton playwright Katherine Koller has won the 2013 Alberta Playwriting Competition. The prize includes a $3500 award and a public reading of the play at the Banff Centre. The play is about  Ev and Wes losing track of each other in winter, in the bush, with a baby, during the great Alberta oil strike of 1947 at Leduc.

My novel The Candle of God was Amazon's featured Book of the Week in October. My poem "On the Way to the Airport" was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser to be featured in his widely-circulated column in American Life in Poetry.

EXCITING NEWS from NYC!

AMANDA HART WALKER is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical from the MITF in Manhattan for the role of DANIELLE DEL DANTE in ENTER SINGING.
 

She has a Masters degree in music from the Boston Conservatory. Amanda has 2 full ranges (upper and lower) and relative perfect pitch.

She comes alive under the lights onstage! Amanda is represented by the Bloc NYC Talent Agency.

She sang the lead in the songs, BORN TO WIN, TRIBE OF BOOKLOVERS and the FINALE.

CONGRATULATIONS AMANDA! The winner of the Best Lead Actress in a Musical award (among the field of 21 musicals) will be announced in 2014.

ENTER SINGING the Musical: libretto, music and lyrics by Linda Evans, full member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the International Centre of Women Playwrights

 

 

ENTER SINGING the Musical is "nominated for best MARKETING AND ADVERTISING" among a field of 64 productions in the Midtown International Theater Festival! What a nice surprise! We actually had a $30 dollar budget but used the advice of the MIFT Staff provided by John Chatterton and did a lot of free advertising online: please continue to visit our FACEBOOK webpage "ENTER SINGING" above in search for people, places and things. I also wish to thank our wonderful giving vocalists who allowed their audio clips to be used online! Thank you! The winner is announced in 2014.