The Short Script Semi-Finalists list can be found further down this page.
1000 O by Barbara Peikert (Switzerland)
2-Hour Delay by Maureen Griffin (USA)
A Dawgs Imagination by Montana James Miller (USA)
A Handful of Dirt by Stephen Rivera (USA)
A Showstoppers Journey by Montana James Miller (USA)
A Slice of Gaza Jannah by Tanzira Rahman Rashid (USA)
Absolution by Jill Yapsuga (USA)
Algorithm III: The Herd by Longwen Miao (USA)
Ancestors Call by Sophia Lee (USA)
Äned am Bärg (Yonderland) by Renée Steffen and Li Tavor (Switzerland)
Are You Kidding? by Avery Taylor (USA)
As Long As It Works by Ding An Cheng (Singapore)
Before We Arrive by Yoonah Lee (USA)
Before We Croak by Pamela D Torrance (USA)
Black September by Hua Zeng (USA)
Blood Will Have Blood by John Kestner (USA)
Bloom by Zachary Gladwin (USA)
Boy Left Outside by Todd Killian (USA)
Breaking Shadows by Tegan Joseph Mosugu and Asiedu Appenteng (Ghana)
Breath by Nikita Chupryk (UK)
Breathe the Thunder by Nicolas Cruz Dauzier and Max Talbot (USA)
Building Nations by Pete Kolopenuk (Canada)
Bury Me Not by Joshua C McKenzie (USA)
Choy: The Making Of by Maxwell Johnson (USA)
Colada by Carly Jibson (USA)
Cool Arms by Alfred Aquino II (USA)
Cool Headed Girl by Lisa Nagy Isaacson (USA)
Cowgirl by Ludovic Blecon (Canada)
Dawn of Humanimate by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, and Samudra Kajal (Singapore)
Disillusion by Jade Wang (China)
Doomscrolling by Richard Gordon (USA)
Double Bill by Greg Checketts (USA)
Easy Come, Easy Go by Jerald Irwin Morse (USA)
EMF by Eric A Zimmerman and Burle Avant (USA)
Endangered Ink – The Fantastic World of Nick Anderson by Richard Van Kleeck (USA)
Eve Of The Zeitgeist by Blake Georgiadis (USA)
Ever Yours by Joaquin Alvarez and Caleb Sanchez (USA)
Exuvia by Luca Sorgato and Giacomo Laser (Italy)
F*ck Florida by Adrian Jules (USA)
Flowers of Wa Mountain by Zixuan Wen and Wantong Han (China)
Geography by Luca De Santis (Italy)
Ghost of the Gap by Delmar Gustav Terblanche (Australia)
Gloom Horizon by Kyle Cattapan (USA)
Great Water by Cody Schlabaugh (USA)
Hashtag Wars by Jolanta Young (USA)
Hiraeth(n.) by Kaleigh Jules Jacobs (USA)
Honestly, Dad by Dwight Rodgers (USA)
I Am Art: The Redline by Terry Dillard (USA)
ISCL.TV: Black Digital Pioneers Before Podcasting by Paul Brian Franklin (USA)
It’s Weird Next Door by Newton Mayenge (USA)
Kopavi4 by Satoshi Inukai (Japan)
Liar’s Debt by Molly Gaze (USA)
Liberty Vs Tyranny by Cheo Tapia (USA)
Life of A Penny by Graeyson Ryan Ayla Aldred (USA)
Life, Swing, Again by Hyung-rae Cho (South Korea)
Lost in the Dust by Behnam Khamisi (Australia)
Made In by Rajesh Puthanpurayil (India)
May 2nd by Joy E. Joseph (USA)
Meet Me on a Rock by Marie Bryan (Ireland)
Mental by Suzanna Turner (USA)
Mickey Chevran by Hitesh Peddagangi (India)
Montserratumentary by Treme Wilson and Val Abbate (USA)
Namllod by Luke Johnson (USA)
Out of the Blue by Melinda Joy Rothouse, George McCormack, and Juro Kosec (USA)
Park Boys by Lena Lee (USA)
Process. Architecture of Sound by Kostiantyn Mishchenko (USA)
Prostration by Hua Zeng (USA)
Reality’s Disconnect by Colin Van Koughnet (USA)
Seven Minutes to Heaven by Zachary Padgett (USA)
Shadows of War by Jordan A. Calomese (USA)
Shortcut by Juan Garcia (USA)
Showdown by Robert David Guthrie (USA)
Sins Of Sinclair by Celine Egan (Ireland)
Some Faraway Beach by Aden Davis Smith (USA)
Stay by Aden Gonzalez (USA)
String Theory by Josie Blanke (USA)
Stuck by Justin Ferrante (USA)
The Artist by James Hendry (USA)
The Boys In My Bathroom by Briege Julien (USA)
The Chill of Indifference by Kate Niedjalski (Canada)
The City by Rayne York (USA)
The Cost by Shamar Rush (USA)
The Hoop Dancer Special by Montana James Miller (USA)
The Illusion of Freedom by Mingqian Tu (USA)
The Last Word by Ed Munter (USA)
The Movement of Champions by Samyra Snoddy (USA)
The Night Shift by Obssa Ahmed (Canada)
The Paranormal by Makayla Boyd (USA)
The Protectors by Kelso Harper and Carin Leong (USA)
The Sphere by Autumn Christine St Cyr (Canada)
The Studio: Live x Lego Featuring Deborah Czeresko – The Egg by William Couig (USA)
The Tell-Tale Heart by Doug Clyde (USA)
The Wrong Bozos by Nicholas Lane (USA)
Tibetan Girl by Hua Zeng (USA)
Toothman by Clint Green (USA)
Touch – A Healing by Sai Sumana Penumetcha (India)
Toxic Metals in Clothing by Zoe An (USA)
Tracy’s Porch by Davion M. Frieson (USA)
Under The Sun by Delia Niya (USA)
Unpaid by Nicholas Tell (USA)
Walrus Inc. by Sarah Swire (Canada)
We Need A Story by Nathan J Lee (USA)
What Comes Through by Levi Walker Marsh (USA)
What’s Inside by Theo Endreny and Dan Goldring (USA)
Where Did You Go, Sir Bigsby Fox? by Thomas E. Ortiz (USA)
Whitewashed by Berry Minott (USA)
Who Framed Tholomew by Brett Willis (USA)
WiFi Date by Daniela Lugo and Giorgio Rossini (USA)
Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light by Carissa Pierson (USA)
Witnessing by Chelsey Roxanne Carter and Michael Tyner (USA)
Woods of Dust by Giseo (South Korea)
You’re Not Alone Tonight by Fox de la Rose (France)
Zhījiān (Between) by Andrea Florenza (USA)
Short Scripts
A Little Death by Tim Young (USA)
A Perfect Day by James Barr (USA)
Anniversary Play by Melis Șamdancı (UK)
Between Prayers by Carlos Mena (USA)
Cazucá by Cindy Ocasio Rios (Puerto Rico)
Elegy for Reena by Christopher Booth (USA)
Father Figures by Ross Raventos and Steven Haas (USA)
Free Safety by Reena Patton (USA)
Girls Hockey by Mae Planert and Jennifer Keefe (USA)
Grandpa Kurt vs. the Dragon by Patrick Jay Stonecipher (USA)
Home Video_01 by Sara Reshamwala (USA)
I Love You Tammy Cunningham by Gregory Paul (USA)
Just Stuff by Dan Goldring (USA)
Midnight Snack by JT Thepnapa Chaiyakam (USA)
Miss You by Dion Aralihalli (USA)
Obedient by Pablo Catalan (Spain)
Quixote Goes Wrong by Humphrye Zhao (USA)
Running Out of Wind by Clinton Joe Andersen (USA)
Somewhere Loud by by KC Thomas (UK)
Special Delivery by Cameron James Burns (USA)
Strayed From His Path by Alexis McLane (USA)
The Business of Health by Luis Escobar (USA)
The Encore by John Kestner and Tony Noyes (USA)
The Inseparables by Jorge Troncone Osorio (USA)
The Offseason by Tim Young (USA)
The Process by Matthew Alexander Morgan (USA)
The Real Spaghetti by Richard Stirling (USA)
The Trombone or Modern Romance by Linda Kampley (USA)
Too Closely Dublin by Ashlieya Mariano (USA)
When the Wind Howls by Dorian Cheadera (USA)
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