Winners of The Relentless Award:
Full List

2024 Relentless Award Winner

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 

 

2024 Semifinalists

• golf girl by Seayoung Yim

• Me No Know Korean by Ashil Lee

• Overnight at the Museum Starring Darius and DaMarcus by Nia Akilah Robinson

• Pennies by Hansol Jung

 

2024 Honorable Mentions

• Color Boy by Esperanza Rosales Balcarcel

• Contentious Woman by Celeste Jennings

• The Creature by Alexa Derman

• The Dog Walker by Dan Giles

• Fall by Colm Summers

• The Fate of the Online Cow by kanishk pandey

• FUTURE WIFE by Reid Tang

• Grief World by Hannah Kenah

• Hockey Wives by Tanya O’Debra

• ICONS by Xavier Clark

• Image May Contain by Alice Shen

• i never asked for a gofund me by Jayne Deely

• In the Basement by Bailey Williams

• Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miranda by Ariel Stess 

• The Life You Gave Me by Novid Parsi

• Lisa, a Fantasia by Gina Femia

• lonely people on the internet by Claire Griesing

• Mere Waters by Jillian Blevins

• Mikvah Girls by Emmy Weisman

• NOVIOS by Arturo Luíz Soria

• Now 2 by Hayley Stahl

• powpowpowpowpowpowpowpowBANG by Utkarsh Rajawat

• Pretty Shahid by Abbas Salem

• PRICK by Serena Berman

• Progression by Christopher Adams

• To Red Tendons by Peter Kim George

• RIGHT TO BEAR by Ryan Vincent Anderson

• The Second Body by Lyndsey Bourne

• SINGULARITY by Sara Cooper

• The Sporting Life by Marjorie Muller

• Tesseract by Scott Sickles

• UNTITLED (blood, marble) by Kate McMorran

• WELL WELL WELL by Brant Russell

• Yamaguchi Store by Shanti Reinhardt

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

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

2023 Relentless Award

Picket Plays Winners

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• 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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Picket Plays Finalists

• Benefits by C. Quintana 

• The Empty Space, or White People Ruin Everything by Dominic Colón 

• Hello, Stacey by Alice Stanley Jr.

• Life With a French Bulldog by Chris Licud 

• Merced by Alfredo Barrios Jr.

• Scabby by Dean Imperial 

 

Picket Plays Semifinalists

• Coffee How by Derek Simon

• Change the Narrative by Anthony Schneck

• The Gates by Evan Susser 

• Killing Natasha Lyonne by Jamie Mayer 

• Moby Dick, the Comedy by Molly Mosely

• One Day Longer by Marin Gazzaniga  

• Rat Blanket by Jonathan Mastro  

• Tired of Fighting by Josephina Lopez 

• Underpaid/Overqualified by Natalia Temesgen

• When We Eat the Rich Our Great-Grandmothers Will Smile Through Our Teeth and Taste the Future on Our Red and Ravenous Tongues by Kevin Snipes 

 

Picket Plays Honorable Mentions

• Boiling Point by Amy Reed

• Content Farm by Joshua Max Feldman 

• The Machine Breakers by Eleanor Burgess

• A Rancorous State of Affairs by David Golden

• The Robots Will Go on Strike Too by Jen McCartney

• Shame by Sinead Daly

• Six Coffees by Sam Rubinek

• Solidarity by Jessica Huang

• whas a cat to do? by Nambi Kelley

• What We Keep by Ilana Peña

2022 Relentless

Musical Award Winner

How the White Girl Got Her Spots   and Other 90s Trivia by Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Laura Grill Jaye

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2022 Finalists

• Hills on Fire by Coyote Joe Stevens and Keaton Wooden

• Shoot for the Moon by David Gomez and John-Michael Lyles

• XY by Oliver Houser

 

2022 Semifinalists

• Lauren and the Case of the Missing Hair by Lauren Marcus

• Little Black Book by Billy Recce 

• Little Duende by Robi Hager and Georgina Escobar

• You, Me, I, We by Jessica Wu

 

2022 Honorable Mentions

• Against Women and Music! by Kate Douglas and Grace McLean

• A Hanukkah Carol or, Gelt Trip! the Musical by Harrison Bryan, Aaron Kenny, and Rob Berliner

• A Problem with the Pattersons by Laura Zlatos and Andre Catrini

• Boomerangs by Benjamin Velez and Katie Hathaway

• Challenger: An American Dream by Patrick Lazour and Daniel Lazour

• Cubamor by Charles Vincent Burwell and James Sasser

• Crashlight by Celeste Mackoff

• Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Change The World by Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses

• Fountain by Christopher Anselmo and Jared Corak

• Glory, MS by Andrew Gerle

• Greenwood: An American Musical by Ronve O'Daniel, J Kyle Manzay, and Jevares Myrick

• Hart Island by Danny Haengil Larsen and Michelle Elliott

• Household Magic by Patricia Ione Lloyd and Heather Christian

• How to You: A Musical Guide To Black Boyhood by Joriah Fleming

• I Was Unbecoming Then by Lyndsey Bourne and Sam Kaseta

• Iron John: An American Ghost Story by Jacinth Greywoode and Rebecca Hart

• Marie In Tomorrowland by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Erato A. Kremmyda

• Noise by Rachel Covey

• Penelope by Alex Bechtel, Eva Steinmetz, and Brenson Thomas

• Perpetual Sunshine and the Ghost Girls by Sara Cooper and Lynne Shankel

• Reb+VoDKa+Me by Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald

• Savage the Musical by Nicolette Blount and Lindel Hart

• School Pictures by Milo Cramer

• Shoshana in December by Rose Oser, Weston Scott, and Matthew Grandy

• Soft Butter: a trans fantasia on edible themes by É Boylan

• The Bubble by Janine McGuire and Arrie Simon

• The Firebird by Christopher Staskel and Lisa Burns

• TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn

• We Foxes by Ryan Scott Oliver

• Wings by Danny K Bernstein

• 2 & 1: A Harlem Musical With Loose Morals by Joël René Scoville and Jenna Byrd

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

2015 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

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