Awards, Commissions & Publications

2023

Todd McNerney Playwrighting Award
Rich Rubin, FLOATING NAKED WITH PIRANHAS, finalist

The Mellon Foundation: three-year residency at Artists Repertory Theatre through the National Playwright Residency Program
E. M. Lewis, THE GREAT DIVIDE, awarded again

Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023; Smith & Kraus
Lolly Ward, BONUS, published

Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023; Smith & Kraus
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, published

Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023; Smith & Kraus
Rich Rubin, KAFKA’s JOKE, published

Contemporary One-Minute Plays, Vol. 3; Som
Rich Rubin, WHAT WE DID DURING THE PANDEMIC, published

Oregon Book Award
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE STORYTELLER, winner
E. M. Lewis, DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY, finalist
Rich Rubin, RUSSIAN TROLL, finalist

Chaotic Merge, Issue 5
Rich Rubin, KEEPING SECRETS, published

ScreenCraft Competition
Rich Rubin, FLOATING NAKED WITH PIRANHAS (HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE WORKING AT AMAZON), semifinalist

2022

Best Men’s Stage Monologues; Smith & Kraus
Rich Rubin, RUSSIAN TROLL, published

Portland Civic Theatre Guild Award
Brianna Barrett, STILL HARVEY STILL, finalist

Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition
Rich Rubin, POWER OF BABEL, semifinalist

AITAF Bridge Award for Playwriting
Rich Rubin, RISING STORM, semifinalist

Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Anya Pearson, THE KILLING FIELDS, finalist

Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
Brianna Barrett, ACTS OF CREATION, winner

2021

Samuel French
Brianna Barrett, A TEMPORARY FUNERAL FOR DARREN MCDUFFY, published

GO PLAY OUTSIDE; Applause Books, ed. Lolly Ward
Sara Jean Accuardi, Brianna Barrett, Audrey Block, Susan Faust, Anya Pearson, Holly Yurth Richards, Rich Rubin, Josie Seid; published

some scripts literary magazine
Rich Rubin, WHAT WE DID IN QUARANTINE, published

PassinArt
Alan Alexander III, honored

Oregon Literary Fellowship: Leslie Bradshaw Drama Fellowship
Sara Jean Accuardi, winner

Oregon Book Award
Sara Jean Accuardi, finalist
E. M. Lewis, finalist
Anya Pearson, finalist

Chapel Theatre Play Festival
Lolly Ward, THE TALE OF THE USER AGREEMENT, winner

The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020; Smith & Kraus
Rich Rubin, HAIR TODAY, published

Portland Center Stage: PCS Remix
Anya Pearson, commissioned

Next Stage Press
Rich Rubin, GRAND JUNCTION, published

McNerney National Playwriting Contest
Rich Rubin, SHAKESPEARE’S START, finalist

Princeton Hodder Fellow 2021-2022
Anya Pearson, fellowship, winner

Best Womens’ and Best Men’s Monologues of 2021; Smith & Kraus
Sara Jean Accuardi and Dan Kitrosser, published

2020

Woodward International Playwriting Prize
Rich Rubin, KAFKA’S JOKE, finalist

2020: Good Writing From a Bad Year; Dutch Kills Press
Lolly Ward, WE SORT OF KILLED A GIRL, published

Portland Civic Theatre Guild: 2021 New Play Award
Audrey Block, RUN OF HOUSE, finalist
Rich Rubin, RUSSIAN TROLL, finalist

ART: Mercury Company
Dan Kitrosser, E. M. Lewis, Josie Seid, commissioned and recorded

The Kilroys List
Anya Pearson, THE MEASURE OF INNOCENCE, selected

Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival
Rich Rubin, PICASSO IN PARIS, finalist

Drammy Awards, Outstanding Original Script
Anya Pearson, THE MEASURE OF INNOCENCE, winner

Landing Theatre Company New American Voices Festival
Rich Rubin, BABYLAND, semifinalist

Portland Center Stage: Play at Home
Anya Pearson, E. M. Lewis, Josie Seid, Sara Jean Accuardi, commissioned

The Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award
E. M. Lewis, HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, winner

ATHE Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award
Rich Rubin, SHAKESPEARE’S SKULL, finalist

Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020; Smith & Kraus
Rich Rubin, HAIR TODAY, published

The Mellon Foundation: three-year residency at Artists Repertory Theatre through the National Playwright Residency Program
E. M. Lewis, THE GREAT DIVIDE, awarded

International Thomas Wolfe Playwright Competition
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE STORYTELLER, winner

The Julie Harris Playwright Award
Rich Rubin, PICASSO IN PARIS, winner

2019

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company: Emerging Playwright Award
Rich Rubin, ONE WEEKEND IN OCTOBER, winner

Short+Sweet Hollywood Festival: Top 8 Winner
Lolly Ward, FOR RENT

The Lark Playwrights’ Week
Dan Kitrosser, SVETLANA! SVETLANA!, finalist

Portland Civic Theatre Guild: Fertile Ground 2020 New Play Award
Susan Faust, CONFABULOUS, finalist
Rich Rubin, DESCENT FROM THE ANDES, finalist

OSF’s American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle
E. M. Lewis, commissioned, with Artists Repertory Theatre

Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival
Rich Rubin, PICASSO IN PARIS, winner

Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship
Lolly Ward, GONE, received through the Inkwell Theater Lab

Franklin High School
Sara Jean Accuardi, commissioned

Drammy Awards, Outstanding Original Script
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE DELAYS, winner

Kitchen Dog Theater, New Works Festival
Sara Jean Accuardi, <3, finalist

Wordsmyth
Lolly Ward, GONE, finalist

Battle Creek Community Foundation
Dan Kitrosser, commissioned

The Scratch
Sara Jean Accuardi, BREAK, finalist
Lolly Ward, 72 OBJECTS, semifinalist

Orphic
Josie Seid, HERAKLES adaptation, commissioned

Writopia, The Dan Kitrosser Scholarship Fund
Dan Kitrosser, honored

Camas H.S. Benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Brianna Barrett, AFTER THIS EPISODE, commissioned

The Majestic Eight
Sara Jean Accuardi, A SCIENCE THING, winner
Rich Rubin, STARK NAKED, winner

Blue Ink Playwriting Award
Rich Rubin, DESCENT FROM THE ANDES, semifinalist

O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE STORYTELLER, finalist

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE STORYTELLER, finalist

Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence
Rich Rubin (book) and Michael Johnson (music & lyrics), HAPPY VALLEY, runner-up

Maryland Opera Studio
E. M. Lewis, TOWN HALL, commissioned

Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, Smith & Kraus
Lolly Ward, DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN?, published
Rich Rubin, HOW NICE OF YOU TO ASK, published
Sara Jean Accuardi, listed

Samuel French
E. M. Lewis, THE GUN SHOW, published

ATHE Award of Excellence in Playwriting
Rich Rubin, PICASSO IN PARIS, semifinalist

Independent Spirit Awards
Dan Kitrosser, WE THE ANIMALS, nominated

American Lyric Theater
E. M. Lewis, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT, commissioned

AITAF Bridge Award
Rich Rubin, THE COURT MARSHALL OF AUSTIN TATE, semifinalist

B Street Theatre, New Comedies Festival
Sara Jean Accuardi, LOVE SCENES, semifinalist
Rich Rubin, SHAKESPEARE’S SKULL, semifinalist

2018

AACT New Play Fest
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, semifinalist

Theatre Vertigo: commission
Sara Jean Accuardi, THE DELAYS

Fundamental Theater Project: Peter Shaffer Award
Dan Kitrosser, winner

Portland Civic Theatre Guild: Fertile Ground 2019 New Play Award
Rich Rubin, SHAKESPEARE’S SKULL, winner
Dan Kitrosser, THE OLD FOREVER NEW THINGS, finalist

Woodward-Newman Drama Award
Rich Rubin, LEFT HOOK, finalist

Sundance Film Festival: NEXT Innovator Prize
Dan Kitrosser and Jeremiah Zagar, WE THE ANIMALS, winner

Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads
Lolly Ward, THE ETHEL PARTY, published

2017

Portland Civic Theatre Guild: Fertile Ground 2018 New Play Award
Matthew Miller, I LOVE YOU, WHO ARE YOU, winner
Miriam Feder, OUT OF THE BLUE, finalist
Rich Rubin, GRAND JUNCTION, finalist

Regional Arts and Culture Council
Alan Alexander III, HOMELESS (the musical), grant recipient for theatre

The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016
E.M. Lewis, THE GUN SHOW, published

The Oregon Community Foundation: Creative Heights Initiative
E.M. Lewis, MAGELLANICA, grant winner

Willamette Week: Best spoken word / storyteller — 2nd year
Brianna Barrett, winner

Reva Shiner Comedy Award
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, finalist

HART Theatre’s Page to Stage
Brianna Barrett, 36 PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE MEALTIME CONVERSATIONS, winner

The Dionysian Magazine
Naga Nataka, THE END, published, March issue

Stanley Drama Award
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, top ten semifinalist

AACT NewPlayFest
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, semifinalist

O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Lolly Ward, THEORY OF NOTHING, semifinalist

Oregon Book Award
Rich Rubin, CAESAR’S BLOOD, finalist

Theatre Vertigo Commission
Sara Jean Accuardi, 2017-2018 Featured Playwright

105 5-Minute Plays for Study and Performance; Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Lolly Ward, BLACK PRESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, published

2016

The Bechdel Group
Rich Rubin, BOOK OF REVELATION, finalist

Best Plays from Theater Festivals 2016 (Women’s Voices Theater Festival)
E.M. Lewis, NOW COMES THE NIGHT, published

Theatre Conspiracy’s New Play Contest
Rich Rubin, CAESAR’S BLOOD, finalist

HART Theatre’s Page to Stage
Brianna Barrett, 36 PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE MEALTIME CONVERSATIONS, finalist
Rich Rubin, THE COURT MARTIAL OF AUSTIN TATE, finalist

Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s Fertile Ground New Play Award
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, finalist
Lolly Ward, 72 OBJECTS, finalist

Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville National Ten-Minute Play Contest
Sara Jean Accuardi, finalist

Willamette Week: Best spoken word / storyteller
Brianna Barrett, winner

Oregon Play Prize
Naga Nataka, RED FLAG, semifinalist

Ashland New Play Festival
Sara Jean Accuardi, PORTRAIT OF THE WIDOW KINSKI, semifinalist

Todd McNerney Playwrighting Award
Rich Rubin, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, winner

Jewish Ensemble Theatre New Play Festival
Rich Rubin, CAESAR’S BLOOD, finalist

Portland Civic Theatre Guild New Play Award
Rich Rubin, BABYLAND, finalist

Rover Dramawerks New Play Contest
Rich Rubin, LUNCH LADIES, finalist

O’Neill National Play Conference
Rich Rubin, LEFT HOOK, semifinalist