Winners of The Chameleon Theatre Circle's New Play Contests over the years

Since 1999, The Chameleon Theatre Circle has held an annual New Play Contest and a New Play Festival, featuring winning selected scripts from submissions each year. Our New Play Contest Committee reads each script that is submitted, and with over 300 scripts submitted each year, it's a lot of reading that takes place!

12th Annual New Play Festival Scripts

Full Length Scripts
Grandma's Little Helper by Kris Bauske
Noir(ish) by Evan Guilford-Blake
The Commission by David Clow

One Act Scripts
Sense and Insensibility by Dan Borengasser The Watch by Trace Crawford

Ten-Minute Scripts
Curse the Darkness by Patrick Gabridge
The Buffer by Mike Allegra

Several past New Play Contest winning scripts have been produced by The Chameleon Theatre Circle:

• We Gather Together by Vicki Riba Koestler - November 2011
• Paper Dolls by Timothy Braatz - September 2009
• Crossing Event Horizon by Kevin Rush - November 2007
• Paper Cuts by Timothy Braatz – October 2005
• Snowflake's Story by Nikki Harmon – January/April 2005 & spring of 2006
• Love's Shadow On Snow by Rick Raasch - March 2004
• Are We There Yet? by Kent R. Brown - May 2002
• New & Nobler Life by Timothy Braatz - Minnesota Fringe Festival, August 3-12, 2001
• Helena Handbasket by Timothy Braatz - February 2001

The Chameleon Theatre Circle has also produced these original plays:

• Monsters In America: Puppets of Mass Distraction (created by the company) - 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival
• Death Penalty Puppetry (created by the company) – 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival
• How I Wonder What You Are - Seven original plays by seven playwrights - January 2004
  • Believe In It by Kim Kivens
  • The Boy Who Dies With The Most Mommies Wins by Rick Raasch
  • Child of Mine by Lysa Clayburn
  • H-I-J-K-LMNOP (but not Q) by G.J. Clayburn
  • Pull Falcon's Feather Lever by Tim Kuehl
  • Twinkle by Timothy Braatz
  • Un, Deux, Trois by Clare Jodzio McDermott
• Pollyholiday by Rick Raasch - March 2003
• I Could Kick Your Ass by Daniel K. McDermott - January 2003
• If Garrett McDermott Were A Bowl of Prize-Winning Chili by Rick Raasch - November 2002