THEATRE OXFORD NINTH ANNUAL (2008) 
10 MINUTE PLAY CONTEST WINNERS

1st Place /Grand Prize Winner MARY'S YARN by James Caputo of San Diego, California He will received the L. W. Thomas Award of  $1,000 and his play will be fully produced in early autumn. James Caputo was winner of The Ashland Oregon Festival, The Palm Springs International Festival, The Theatre Conspiracy Competition, The Dubuque Fine Arts Contest, The Camino Real Festival, The New York Public Television Competition and several San Diego Festivals. Jim’s plays have been selected for The NYC Underground Festival, Ashland Play Slam, The Fritz Blitz, The Harvest Theatre Competition, and have been produced from coast to coast. He is an actor, a director and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

3rd Place Winner TWO DEAD PEOPLE TALKING by John Maxwell of Jackson, Mississippi  John Maxwell has toured with his one-man play, “Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?” since 1981. He founded Fish Tale Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to illuminating scripture through drama. The organization has written and produced several DVDs based on Biblical stories told in a new perspective with modern dialogue and dress. John also has written and performs six religious monologues. His play Buck-Nekkid for Jesus has been performed throughout the south to critical acclaim. What he is proudest of, however, is his wife Sandy and son Townes who is in his last year of Law School at Ole Miss. More About John Maxwell

4th Place Winner
NIGHT VISION by S. L. Daniels of Chicago, Illinois
S. L. Daniels’ work has been produced at many theatres around the country. Her play Rain, River, Ice, Steam received the Illinois Artist Award for Playwriting. The play was produced in New York, Los Angeles, and in Chicago at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. She would like to thank Theatre Oxford for this honor.

5th Place Winner DARE ME by Danielle Fenton of Raleigh, North Carolina  Danielle Fenton’s plays Symptoms and Inner Armies Outer Thighs (aka Looking for God in All the Wrong Outfits) ran at The West Bank Theater in NYC. She has been a contributing member of notable theatre companies such as The American Renaissance Theatre Company and Pulse Ensemble Theater. Her prose has been published in Fish Drum Magazine. Danielle is co-creator of Connections, a screenplay optioned for a feature film. She is married with three children and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

THEATRE OXFORD EIGHTH ANNUAL (2007) 
10 MINUTE PLAY CONTEST WINNERS

Following the Saturday, March 24, 2007 staged reading of the 5 winning plays in the Eighth Annual Theatre Oxford National 10 Minute Play Contest, judges ranked the winners as follows:


Tied for First Place:
COITUS HATE-US by Hillary Rollins, Santa Monica, CA and
SEAT YOURSELF by Michael Merino, Washington, DC

Second place:
"Prayers Said Backwards" by Judy GeBauer, Denver, Co

Third Place:
"Pet Peeves" by Joe Barnes, Houston, TX

Fourth Place:
"It’s Sunday" by Paul Smolens, Naples, FL


Hillary Rollins and Michael Merino will split the L. W. Thomas Award of $1,000; both "Coitus Hate-Us" and "Seat Yourself" will be produced in the fall, 2008 festival of winning 10 minute plays from the contests of 2007 and 2008


The 2007 contest drew 321 entries from 39 states, DC, and five foreign countries.

THEATRE OXFORD SEVENTH ANNUAL (2006) 
10 MINUTE PLAY CONTEST WINNERS


First place:
David Johnston of New York City for MOTHRA IS WAITING


Second Place:
Jami Brandli of Somerville, Massachusetts for THE DELIVERY


Third Place:
David O. Bell of Oxford, Mississippi for BAR CODE


Fourth Place:
Peter L. Levy of San Francisco, California for THE TITANIC REVISITED


Fifth Place:
Nikos Vlachos of Bloomington, Illinois for THE BABY PHOTOGRAPHER

THEATRE OXFORD SIXTH ANNUAL (2005) 
10 MINUTE PLAY CONTEST WINNERS


First place
"The Key to the Mystic Halls of Time" View Video by Matt Casarino


Second Place:
CHILDS PLAY by Kolby Granville and Ry Herman


Third Place:
NEVERLAND by Kim Kelly


There Was a Tie For Fourth Place:
HOMELAND INSECURITY by John Pizzuto
DULING WITH MOTHER by Holly Walter Kerby