Winners of
The Relentless Award

Winner of the 2024 Relentless Award

MANAKIN
by Dave Harris

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2024 Finalists

• My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head by Gloria Majule

• The Good Boy Game by Patrick Vermillion

• The TeeTee & Lala Show by Donja R. Love

Winners of The Relentless Award

Ten Minute Picket Plays

fire ants by Lily Houghton and Sofya Levitsky-Weitz ​

Love Your Work by Eric Pfeffinger 

Me. by Jill Twiss

A Ride in the Car in the Morning by Hannah Globus

The Scorpion Dance by Jon Haller ​

WILDCAT by Kristen Adele Calhoun

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Read the winning plays here!

Winner of The 2022 Relentless Musical Award

How the White Girl Got Her Spots

and Other 90s Trivia 
by Shayok Misha Chowdhury

& Laura Grill Jaye

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2022 Finalists

• Hills on Fire by Coyote Joe Stevens

       & Keaton Wooden

• Shoot for the Moon by David Gomez

       & John-Michael Lyles

• XY by Oliver Houser

Winner of The 2019 Relentless Award

Nightwatch 
by Max Yu

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2019 Finalists

• This Exquisite Corpse by Mia Chung

• Wet Brain by John J Caswell, Jr.

Winner of The 2018 Relentless Award

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

Winner of The 2017 Relentless Award

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

Winner of The 2016 Relentless Award

Is God Is              
by Aleshea Harris

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2016 Finalists

• Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

• The Treasurer by Max Posner

Winners of The 2015 Relentless Award

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

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Dance Nation
by Clare Barron
 

The Wolves 
by Sarah DeLappe

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2015 Finalists

• #‎bros by Jake Jeppson

• Radio Island by Liza Birkenmeier