The Chameleon Theatre Circle's 22nd Annual New Play Contest
Our New Play Contest deadline for entry this year has ended.
New Play Contest 2020 Winners
| 21st Annual New Play Contest (2020) | |
| Ghostly by Craig Jessen | Full Length Category |
| Tracy Jones by Stephen Kaplan | Full Length Category |
| All My Exes Walk Into a Bar by Elke Thoms | One Act Category |
| Bertha's Books by W L Newkirk | One Act Category |
| Fantasy for Two by Mike McGoldrick | One Act Category |
| Albert Wants a Shirt by Tiffa Foster | Ten Minute Category |
| Magna Mora by Brian Cern | Ten Minute Category |
| The Swinging Bridge by Susan Middaugh | Ten Minute Category |
| 20th Annual New Play Contest (2019) | |
| National Bohemians by Like Sorge | Full Length Category |
| Agathe by Angela J Davis | One Act Category |
| California Zepher by Daniel James Waters | One Act Category |
| The Infinity Monologues by Jack Bushnell | One Act Category |
| Apocalypse Pet Care by Richard A Pauli | Ten Minute Category |
| Colored Water byCynthia Veal Holm | Ten Minute Category |
| Hotel Rewards by Stephen F Murray | Ten Minute Category |
| It's Always the Quiet Ones by Sharai Bohannon | Ten Minute Category |
| Performance Anxiety by Rom Watson | Ten Minute Category |
| 19th Annual New Play Contest (2018) | |
| Bird of Passage by Colby Halloran | Full Length Category |
| Rev by Rachel Bykowski | Full Length Category |
| The Grave Digger's Lament by Gavin Kayner | One Act Category |
| After the Intervention by W L Newkirk | Ten Minute Category |
| Appointment with Destiny by Beth L Novick | Ten Minute Category |
| Cat People Invade! Richard A Pauli | Ten Minute Category |
| Performance Review by Nedra Pezold Roberts | Ten Minute Category |
| When the Sun Goes Down by Jonathan Cook | Ten Minute Category |
| Hyard Ed by Phil Darg | Musical Category |
| 2017 New Play Contest | |
| Feather'd Choir by Jeremy Hermann | Ten Minute Category |
| Memories of the American Occupation by Paul Lewis | Ten Minute Category |
| Mixed Nuts by George Bryjak | Ten Minute Category |
| Night and Fog by Kathleen Davis | One Act Category |
| Spilled Dictators by Andrew Rosdail | One Act Category |
| Summers in Prague by Deanna Strasse | One Act Category |
| My Beautiful Infinity by David Vazdauskas | Full Length Category |
| The Women of Cheboksary by Emily Schoenbeck | Fell Length Category |
| The Notorious Nugget by Mark & Lauren Arnest | Musical Category |
| 2016 New Play Contest | |
| Exhibitions at a Picture by Joyce Fontana | Ten Minute Category |
| Gratitude Attitude by Ashley Flesher | Ten Minute Category |
| The Way We Suffer by Deanna Strasse | Ten Minute Category |
| Colorado Sunset by Jeff Carter | One Act Category |
| Good Morning, Miriam by Jacquelyn Floyd Priskorn | One Act Category |
| The Simple Mind of Dillon Magee by A. D. Hasselbring | One Act Category |
| Corbenic by Michael Peroz | Full Length Category |
| Cross Words by Scott Gibson | Fell Length Category |
| The Snowmaker by Aleks Merilo | Full Length Category |
| Zany Planets by Rex McGregor | Theatre for Youth Category |
| 2015 New Play Contest | |
| Intermission by Matthew Loren Cohen | Ten Minute Category |
| Bully Bully by Esta Fischer | Ten Minute Category |
| Fair Trade Coffee by Maurice Herzing | Ten Minute Category |
| The Real Inspector Hound Kisses the Spider-Woman by David Wilcox | One Act Category |
| The Smelly Girl by Cary Gitter | One Act Category |
| Living Tesla by Kim Esop Wylie | One Act Category |
| Weak Days by Hillary DePiano | One Act Category |
| Fertile by Tony Foster | One Act Category |
| Macho Manly Men by Michael Gordon Shapiro | Full Length Category |
| Santa Maria del Mar by John Krisak | Full Length Category |
| 2014 New Play Contest | |
| Page Ten by Amy Crider | Ten Minute Category |
| Beige is the New Plum Crazy by Garrett Heater | Ten Minute Category |
| Eve of the Vertebrates by Christian Simonsen | Ten Minute Category |
| Touché Cliché Touché by Everett Chambers | Ten Minute Category |
| The Colonial Diner by Jack Karp | One Act Category |
| The Mugging by Fred Roberts | One Act Category |
| Spoken For by S.L. Daniels | One Act Category |
| Ayn Rand by Gregory Dodds | One Act Category |
| A Dragon is Coming by Christine Williamson | Full Length Category |
| Calypso's Corner by Emily Rosenbaum | Full Length Category |
| 2013 New Play Contest | |
| A Dark and Stormy Night by Scott Dixon | Ten Minute Category |
| But Soft by David Clow | Ten Minute Category |
| My Broken Kenmore by Bridget Erin | Ten Minute Category |
| Role Playing by David Edenbach | Ten Minute Category |
| Daniil Kharms: A Life in Oce Act and Several Dozen Eggs by Nancy Cooper Frank | One Act Category |
| Fall by Audra Lord | One Act Category |
| Serendipity by Lynn-Steven Johanson | One Act Category |
| The Antichrist Cometh by David MacGregor | Full Length Category |
| The Death of Captain Hero by Amy Crider | Full Length Category |
| The Worst Play in the History of Ever by Jeffrey Wolf | Theatre for Youth Category |
| 2012 New Play Contest | |
| Good Talk by James McLindon | Ten Minute Category |
| Guess What? by Paul Lewis | Ten Minute Category |
| Pop by Andrea Rassler | Ten Minute Category |
| Witlacks Disorder by Richard Manley | Ten Minute Category |
| A Brief History of Mah Jongg by Faye Sholiton | One Act Category |
| Failing Consumption by Lauren & Mark Arnest | One Act Category |
| IO: A Sequel to Prometheus Bound by Christian Simonsen | One Act Category |
| Jane the Plain by August Schulenburg | Full Length Category |
| The Light in the Refrigerator by Laura Zlatos | Full Length Category |
| Mom! book by Judy Freed; music & additional lyrics by Sari Miller; lyrics by Randi Wolfe | Musical Category |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kurt Misar & Brad Beaver | Theatre for Youth Category |
| 2011 New Play Contest | |
| Curse the Darkness by Patrick Gabridge | Ten Minute Category |
| The Buffer by Mike Allegra | Ten Minute Category |
| Sense & Insensibility by Dan Borengasser | One Act Category |
| The Watch by Trace Crawford | One Act Category |
| Grandma's Little Helper by Kris Bauske | Full Length Category |
| Noir(ish) by Evan Guilford-Blake | Full Length Category |
| The Commission by Daivd Clow | Full Length Category |
| 2010 New Play Contest | |
| Candlelight by Matthew Carlin | Ten Minute Category |
| InSex by Jeffrey Neuman | Ten Minute Category |
| Missing by Robin Pond | Ten Minute Category |
| Retirement Party by Ron Frankel | Ten Minute Category |
| Assisted Living by Jeffrey Newman | Ten Minute Category |
| No Flash Bright Enough by James Sievert | One Act Category |
| We Gather Together by Vicki Riba Koestler | Full Length Category |
| Thorns by Michael Peroz | Full Length Category |
| HMS Headwind by Michael Gordon Shapiro | Musical Category |
| Maggie the Pirate by Joshua H. Cohen & James Armstrong | Musical Category |
| 2009 New Play Contest | |
| Old/Bored/Trouble/Dead by John Allison | Ten Minute Category |
| Have Your Cake by Sara Ilyse Jacobson | Ten Minute Category |
| Good God Enters Flossing by J. Stephen Brantley | Ten Minute Category |
| The Winner Is... by Arash Karami | Ten Minute Category |
| Merry-Go-Round by Sam Wallin | One Act Category |
| Cue by M. Thomas Cooper | One Act Category |
| Ponzi on Sunday by Jon Steinhagen | Full Length Category |
| Cossacks Under Water by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2008 New Play Contest | |
| Dancing About Architecture by John C. Davenport | Ten Minute Category |
| 12 Steps to Happy Hour by Matt Wexler | Ten Minute Category |
| A Stake in Cake by Justin Boyd | Ten Minute Category |
| Esla and Frinz Go Partying by Bruze Shearer | Ten Minute Category |
| Rules for a Knife Fight by Max Wexler | One Act Category |
| Wrestling the Alligator by Sergei Burbank | Full Length Category |
| Bridget's Girl by Barbara Dixon | Musical Category |
| Blonde Giovanni by Rick Raasch | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2007 New Play Contest | |
| Hard to Swallow by Daniel Curzon | Ten Minute Category |
| Falling from the Sky by Matt Heftler | Ten Minute Category |
| Guts by Arden Kass | Ten Minute Category |
| Canvas by G. Bruce Smith | One Act Category |
| Burying Barbie by Christopher Dimond | One Act Category |
| Crossing Event Horizon by Kevin Rush | Full Length Category |
| 2006 New Play Contest | |
| The Ten Minute Play by Marika Barnett | Ten Minute Category |
| Life Savings by David Schrag | Ten Minute Category |
| SANE by Jessica Foster | Ten Minute Category |
| Living With the Rules by John A. Donnelly | One Act Category |
| A Personal Appearance by Donald Steele | One Act Category |
| Love and Sex Over Drinks by Joe Bays | Full Length Category |
| The Numerous Numbers and the Magical Plus Sign by Dan Sherrier | Theatre for Youth Category |
| Paper Dolls by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2005 New Play Contest | |
| A vs. B by Marika Tamaki & Lindy Zucker | Ten Minute Category |
| Countdown to Matrimony: An American Monomyth in Under Ten Pages by Conrad E. Davidson | Ten Minute Category |
| Pathos by Rob Bodor | Ten Minute Category |
| Shades by Mark Harvey Levine | Ten Minute Category |
| The Word: A Filthy Little Play by Mark Harvey Levine | Ten Minute Category |
| Leftovers by Scott McMorrow | One Act Category |
| Picnic by Christine Flanagan | One Act Category |
| The Quality of Light by Richard Martin Hirsch | Full Length Category |
| The Commedia Robin Hood by Lane Riosley | Theatre for Youth Category |
| Wild Women of Planet Wongo by Ben Budick, Steve Mackes & Dave Ogrin | Musical Category |
| Paper Cuts by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| Who's Afraid of Peter & the Wolf by Rick Raasch | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2004 New Play Contest | |
| Missing Matter by Helen Hill | Ten Minute Category |
| When One is Gone by Steve Bluestein | One Act Category |
| Picnic by Christine Flanagan | One Act Category |
| Snowflake's Story: In Search of the Fabled Land of New Jersey by Nikki Harmon | Theatre for Youth Category |
| The Commistar by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2003 New Play Contest | |
| The Marriage of Marcus Tyler by Matthew N. Fotis | One Act Category |
| Guns, Lies & Lullabies by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| Love's Shadow on Snow by Rick Raasch | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2002 New Play Contest | |
| Broken Loyalties by Christopher Karbo | Full Length Category |
| For the Perserverance of Plentitude by Laura Henry | Full Length Category |
| One Was Assulted by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
| 2001 New Play Contest | |
| Are We There Yet? by Kent R. Brown | One Act Category |
| The Volunteer by Kent R. Brown | One Act Category |
| Shattered Perspectives by John Otte | Full Length Category |
| New and Nobler Life by Timothy Braatz | Playwright-in-Residence Submission |
Several past New Play Festival winning scripts have been produced by The Chameleon Theatre Circle:
- By Beautiful Infinity by David Vazdauskas - February 2019
- The Antichrist Cometh by David MacGregor - November 2014
- Mom! A New Musical Book by Judy Freed, Music and Additional Lyrics by Sari Miller, Lyrics by Randi Wolfe - April/May 2014
- We Gather Together by Vicki Riba Koestler - November 2011
- Blonde Giovanni by Rick Raasch - 2010
- Paper Dolls by Timothy Braatz - September 2009
- Crossing Event Horizon by Kevin Rush - November 2007
- Life Savings by David Schrag - 2006 MACT FASTFest
- 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
