Winners of The Relentless Award:
Full List

2019 Relentless Award Winner

Nightwatch by Max Yu

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2019 Finalists

• This Exquisite Corpse by Mia Chung

• Wet Brain by John J Caswell, Jr.

 

2019 Semifinalists

• Free & Proud by Charles Gershman

• Incendiary by Dave Harris

• The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys by Isaac Gómez

• Pound by Sam Silbiger

• Society by Skylar Fox & Simon Henriques

• Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kyle J McCloskey

 

2019 Honorable Mentions

• angel’s share by Dominic Finocchiaro

• Badlands by Nora Leahy

• Everything Beautiful Happens at Night by Ted Malawer

• Lawnpeople by Natalie Temesgen

• Little Bird by Nicole Oglesby

• Long by Charlie Oh

• Model Citizens by Michael Chadwick

• Pidor and the Wolf by Sam Max

• They Could Give No Name by Exal Iraheta

• Your Own Personal Exegesis by Julia Jonas

2017 Relentless Award Winner

Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner

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2017 Finalists

• Hamlet by Mia Fefferman by Mara Nelson-Greenberg

• One More Less by Kate Cortesi

• There's Always the Hudson by Paola Lázaro

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2017 Semifinalists

• Before Evening Comes by Philana Omorotionmwan

• The Mermaids' Parade by Gina Femia

• Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok

• Wink by Jen Silverman

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2017 Honorable Mentions

• Another Jungle by Kristin Idaszak

• Backwater Rising by Lizzie Vieh

• Bondage by Star Finch

• (end of message) by Laura Jacqmin

• Home Church Play by Jacob Perkins

• Masculinity Max by MJ Kaufman

• Sarah's Salt. by Jillian Walker

• they don't really care about us by Aurin Squire

• USUAL GIRLS by Ming Peiffer

• Wendy and the Neckbeards by Kari Bentley-Quinn

• ZAMBONI by Sean-Patrick O'Brien

2016 Relentless Award Winners

• Dance Nation by Clare Barron

• The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

After being deadlocked our judges enthusiastically embraced the idea of these two wildly talented writers sharing the award.

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2015 Finalists

• ‪#‎bros by Jake Jeppson

• Radio Island by Liza Birkenmeier

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2015 Semifinalists

• Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Chisholm

• Collective Rage, A Play in Five Boops... by Jen Silverman

• Co-Op by Matthew Stephen Smith

• Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park

2018 Relentless Award Winner

The Bandaged Place by Harrison David Rivers

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2018 Finalists

• The 626 Project by Lisa Sanaye Dring

• The Girl is Chained by Genne Murphy

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2018 Semifinalists​

• The Absentee by Julia Doolittle

• cullud wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza

• The End of a Sound by Ann Gillespie

• littleghost by Liza Birkenmeier

• Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer

• suspension by Kristiana Colón

• With Great Difficulty Alice Sits by Hannah Kenah

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2018 Honorable Mentions

• american (tele)visions by Victor I. Cazares

• Biting Hands by Laura Winters

• But When I Started to Play! by Max Baker

• Immortality Crisis by Alexander Pine

• Montag by Kate Tarker

• PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath!!! by Alexa Derman

• Cave Canem by A. Emmanuel Leadon

• TJ Love Sally 4 Ever by James Ijames

• We Are Radios by Chana Porter

• WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play in three acts) by Haygen-Brice Walker

2016 Relentless Award Winner

Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

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2016 Finalists

• Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

• The Treasurer by Max Posner

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2016 Semifinalists

• The Art of Gaman by Dipika Guha

• Laura and the Sea by Kate Tarker

• Ready Steady Yeti Go by David Jacobi

• Tom & Eliza by Celine Song

• White History by Dave Harris

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2016 Honorable Mentions

• Advance Man by Abe Koogler

• Bhuta Kala by Nathaniel Shapiro

• Charleses by Carl Holder

• Between Misery and the Sun by Mady Schutzman

• Brunch by Maya Macdonald

• Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery

• Great White by Deborah Yarchun

• If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka by Tori Sampson

• Kin Folk by William Glick

• NC-17 by Rodney Hicks

• Spare Rib by Winter Miller

• That Poor Girl and How He Killed Her by Jen Silverman

• Trees in their Youth by Dominic Finochiarro

• Viv is for Vengeance by Lindsey Hope Pearlman