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Theatre du Mississippi announces the four winners of their second annual “Original Shorts” playwriting competition. Sixty scripts from playwrights in the tri-state area (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa) were received as part of the competition. Advance readers rated each script and moved fifteen scripts on to the final round.
Winners of the
competition are:
• “In Memory of a Russian
Playwright” by Larry
Greenstein of Minneapolis,
Minn.
•“Heretics” by Richard
Zinober of Moorhead,
Minn.*
• “Condemned” by Greg
Freier of Norwalk, Iowa
• “Siren” by Daryl Lanz of
Winona, Minn.
Receiving
Honorable Mention are the following:
• “Change of Plans” by
Frances Edstrom of
Winona
• “Shadows” by Greg Freier
• “Monkey Play” by Rand
Higbee
• “Sister Thimble” by Levi K.
Smith
• “Betwixt” by Tom Deiker
Other scripts reaching the final round of
competition are:
• “Hot Potato” by Emilio
DeGrazia of Winona
• “The Meeting” by Greg
Freier
• “Cold Water Knocking” by
Kevin Drzakowski
• “Birds of Prey” by Jacob
Wrich
• “Osama High” by Greg
Abbott
• “End Around Sideways” by
Greg Freier
The four winning scripts will be given a staged reading in the Masonic Theatre May 3-5, 2013
*”Heretics” was written with support of an individual artist grant from the Lake Region Arts Council in Fergus Falls.
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