Winners of The Relentless Award:
Full List
2019
2019 Relentless Award Winner
Nightwatch by Max Yu
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2019 Finalists
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This Exquisite Corpse by Mia Chung
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Wet Brain by John J Caswell, Jr.
2019 Semifinalists
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Free & Proud by Charles Gershman
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Incendiary by Dave Harris
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The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys by Isaac Gómez
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Pound by Sam Silbiger
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Society by Skylar Fox & Simon Henriques
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Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kyle J McCloskey
2019 Honorable Mentions
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angel’s share by Dominic Finocchiaro
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Badlands by Nora Leahy
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Everything Beautiful Happens at Night by Ted Malawer
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Lawnpeople by Natalie Temesgen
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Little Bird by Nicole Oglesby
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Long by Charlie Oh
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Model Citizens by Michael Chadwick
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Pidor and the Wolf by Sam Max
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They Could Give No Name by Exal Iraheta
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Your Own Personal Exegesis by Julia Jonas
2017
2017 Relentless Award Winner
Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner
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2017 Finalists
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Hamlet by Mia Fefferman by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
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One More Less by Kate Cortesi
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There's Always the Hudson by Paola Lázaro
2017 Semifinalists
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Before Evening Comes by Philana Omorotionmwan
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The Mermaids' Parade by Gina Femia
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Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok
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Wink by Jen Silverman
2017 Honorable Mentions
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Another Jungle by Kristin Idaszak
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Backwater Rising by Lizzie Vieh
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Bondage by Star Finch
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(end of message) by Laura Jacqmin
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Home Church Play by Jacob Perkins
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Masculinity Max by MJ Kaufman
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Sarah's Salt. by Jillian Walker
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they don't really care about us by Aurin Squire
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USUAL GIRLS by Ming Peiffer
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Wendy and the Neckbeards by Kari Bentley-Quinn
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ZAMBONI by Sean-Patrick O'Brien
2015
2016 Relentless Award Winners
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Dance Nation by Clare Barron
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The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
After being deadlocked our judges enthusiastically embraced the idea of these two wildly talented writers sharing the award.
2015 Finalists
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#bros by Jake Jeppson
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Radio Island by Liza Birkenmeier
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2015 Semifinalists
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Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Chisholm
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Collective Rage, A Play in Five Boops... by Jen Silverman
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Co-Op by Matthew Stephen Smith
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Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park
2018
2018 Relentless Award Winner
The Bandaged Place by Harrison David Rivers
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2018 Finalists
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The 626 Project by Lisa Sanaye Dring
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The Girl is Chained by Genne Murphy
2018 Semifinalists
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The Absentee by Julia Doolittle
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cullud wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
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The End of a Sound by Ann Gillespie
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littleghost by Liza Birkenmeier
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Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer
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suspension by Kristiana Colón
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With Great Difficulty Alice Sits by Hannah Kenah
2018 Honorable Mentions
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american (tele)visions by Victor I. Cazares
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Biting Hands by Laura Winters
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But When I Started to Play! by Max Baker
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Immortality Crisis by Alexander Pine
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Montag by Kate Tarker
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PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath!!! by Alexa Derman
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Cave Canem by A. Emmanuel Leadon
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TJ Love Sally 4 Ever by James Ijames
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We Are Radios by Chana Porter
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WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play in three acts) by Haygen-Brice Walker
2016
2016 Relentless Award Winner
Is God Is by Aleshea Harris
2016 Finalists
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Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
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The Treasurer by Max Posner
2016 Semifinalists
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The Art of Gaman by Dipika Guha
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Laura and the Sea by Kate Tarker
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Ready Steady Yeti Go by David Jacobi
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Tom & Eliza by Celine Song
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White History by Dave Harris
2016 Honorable Mentions
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Advance Man by Abe Koogler
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Bhuta Kala by Nathaniel Shapiro
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Charleses by Carl Holder
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Between Misery and the Sun by Mady Schutzman
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Brunch by Maya Macdonald
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Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery
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Great White by Deborah Yarchun
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If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka by Tori Sampson
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Kin Folk by William Glick
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NC-17 by Rodney Hicks
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Spare Rib by Winter Miller
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That Poor Girl and How He Killed Her by Jen Silverman
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Trees in their Youth by Dominic Finochiarro
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Viv is for Vengeance by Lindsey Hope Pearlman