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2001 Winners

“Playwrights talk among themselves, and the Jackie White Competition is considered among the ten most significant in America for children’s theatre plays. It is well-respected as a venue which has encouraged the development and production of new works for young audiences, and I’m very proud to have won it.”
- Evan Guilford-Blake, 2006 Jackie White Memorial Play Writing Winner

2001 JACKIE WHITE MEMORIAL
PLAY WRITING CONTEST WINNERS

FIRST PLACE: THE HAUNTING OF SHAKESPEARE

Claudia Haas, White Bear Lake, MN

In this imaginative play we meet Shakespeare as a young man determined to leave Stratford and go to London to be an actor. En route through the woods he meets three witches who want to enchant him into being an author so that he will rescue them from obscurity by writing about them. Other spirits (Hamlet, Viola, Bottom, etc.) haunt him as well, begging to be made real through his pen. Still determined to be an actor, Shakespeare is delighted to meet an acting troupe in the woods. In time, however, he sees writing as the stronger choice and, free of enchantment at the play’s end, chooses to write as well as to act. Well known characters out of Shakespeare’s plays carry this delightful comedy, perfect for both Shakespeare lovers and for those who know little of the man and his works.

HONORABLE MENTION:

GOLDEN SILENCE

Anna Salyers Miller Edina, MN

HONORABLE MENTION: SISTERS, ARE YOU WITH ME?

Jeff Lantos and Bill Augustine Marina Del Rey, CA

Note: This year the contest committee decided not to award Second and Third Places. The Honorable Mention winners, as well as the other finalists, were either excellent plays which did not fit our guidelines well or were plays of real promise which needed too much rewriting to win a Second or Third Place in the contest.