Member Awards

Member Dale Griffiths Stamos has received the Bill Paxton Award from the Ojai Film Festival for the short film she wrote and directed: "Entwined." 

The playwriting team of Susan and Doug Decatur had their full length play, Unfinished Business selected as a Second Round winner in the Austin Film Festival playwriting competition in addition to being chosen as a semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft 2020 playwriting competition. The play was also selected to receive a staged reading at Cincinnati Playwright Initiative's 2021 season. 

Sharon Baker's two act comedy, BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE DALAI LAMA'S PALACE received a reading on Zoom, July 19, 2pm.

Presented by the Dramatists Guild of America in their Footlights New Plays program, the reading was videotaped. Anyone wishing to

see the reading, contact Sharon Baker, email: sharonspencelieb@gmail.com.

My play, "The Docent" is the winner of the 2020 Jerry Kaufman Award for Excellence in Playwriting given each year by American Renaissance Theatre Company. 

My full-length play Charlotte's Letters  was selected by Attic Salt Theater Company as a winner of the 2020 Rising Artists Playwriting Competition.

My play "Fridge" was selected for Kairos Italy Theater's International Women in Comedy Ten-Minute Play Festival (performed online in May 2020), where it won 2nd Place Audience-Choice Award. The top three plays including "Fridge" were translated into Italian and performed in the Lucidosottile Festival (online) on June 6, 2020.

Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men's Prison by ICWP member Deborah Tobola won a 2019 Nautilus Silver Book Award in the category of Heroic Journeys.

"The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective," by ICWP member Patricia Milton, has been nominated by San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle (SFBATCC) for Outstanding Production in a theater with fewer than 100 seats, in both the East Bay, and overall SF Bay Area.

The 2019 production, by Central Works Theater, was recommended by Theatre Bay Area and earned a "Go See!" designation by the SFBATCC.

https://www.criticscircle.org/excellence-in-theatre-awards/2020-noms-for-2019/

In February 2020, I was awarded second place in the Robert J. Pickering Playwrighting Excellence for my play Dear Anita Bryant. I suddenly realized that I'm actually a playwright!

In November, my play Equally Divine: The Real Story of The Mona Lisa received the 2019 Best Documentary One-Woman Show Award at the United Solo Festival in New York City.