Screenplay Finalists

A semi-finalist round is announced in January for feature length scripts, short scripts, and teleplays, then our finalists are announced when the festival schedule is released. Screenplay finalists are given All Access passes to the festival and a select group will be given live stage reads in our Annual Writers Theatre.

Congratulations to the OFF’26 Screenplay Finalists!

Feature Length Scripts:

Affordable Care by Andrea Berting

Better Angels by Shannon Denise Evans

Broom Goes the Dynamite by Jeffrey Field

Deadwood Dick by John Stanfield, Sally J. Walker

Mari, the Curse of the Sea by Mackenzie Blake Burton

Pearl Snaps by Leah Simmons *

Sound of Silence by Michelle Davidson, Jeffrey Field *

The Crying Producer by Kevin Machate

The Pale Ones by Sara Caldwell *

Turns Out It’s the Apocalypse… We Think by Natalie Lynch, Tara Jayn

Wings by Maja Pavic

Yosemite by Daniel Talbott

 

Short Scripts (under 30 pages):  

Blood Enough by Saeid Ghasemi

Here Comes the Bonsai by Sikon Toure

Look to the Stars by Dylan Kaufmann *

Mistakes by John McGuigan *

Play On by Nikolay Moss

Purgatorio by Hakan Ünal

Radio Contact by Kevin Machate

Totem by Clayton Henderson

 

Teleplays:

Báthory by Brenna N. Penrod

The Back End by Daniel Gessner, Kyle Campbell *

Time of Your Life by John McGuigan

Until It Wilts by Elena N Loedding

* indicates inclusion in this year’s Writers Theatre
Congratulations to the OFF’26 Screenplay Semi-Finalists!
Feature Length Scripts:
A Family’s Business by Jim Norman
A Fine Line by Dan Burns
Affordable Care by Andrea Berting
Better Angels by Shannon Denise Evans
Big Sky Country by Andrea Berting
Broom Goes the Dynamite by Jeffrey Field
Country Roots by Gregory Robert Kennedy
Deadwood Dick by John Stanfield, Sally J. Walker
Death’s Brother by Julian Martin
Don’t Die Before It’s Over by Steven Keith Bogart
Dragoon by Matthew Kosinski
Freedom Clan by Richard Levine
Headless Over Heels by Leah Simmons
Jackie and Harry by Fisher Alexander
Jeb by Craig Bettendorf
Land Of The Free by Cody Beavers
Mari, the Curse of the Sea by Mackenzie Blake Burton
Okanagan Summer by John Bain
Pearl Snaps by Leah Simmons
S O S – School of Screenwriting by Nancy Wilkinson
Sound of Silence by Michelle Davidson, Jeffrey Field
Tarzan and the Poacher’s Wildman by Nancy Nielsen
The Bride of Christ by Vincent Sweeney
The Chelsea Chronicles by Kevin Machate
The Crying Producer by Kevin Machate
The Do Over by Marina Loos
The First Mrs. Tabor by Melissa Elbaum
The Lab by Nancy Kimmel
The Pale Ones by Sara Caldwell
The Pool Boy by Thomas Joseph Bentey
Turns Out It’s the Apocalypse… We Think by Natalie Lynch, Tara Jayn
Wings by Maja Pavic
Yosemite by Daniel Talbott
Short Scripts (under 30 pages):
A Spoonful by Drew Sheridan-Wheeler, Lou Barogi
American Values by Ryan Mekenian
Bars: A Short Story by J.L. Sanders
Blood Enough by Saeid Ghasemi
Glory and Loot by Jamie R Kadavy, Troy M Kadavy
Here Comes the Bonsai by Sikon Toure
Keeper by John Goodlove
Look to the Stars by Dylan Kaufmann
Mistakes by John McGuigan
Play On by Nikolay Moss
Purgatorio by Hakan Ünal
Radio Contact by Kevin Machate
Totem Night by Clayton Henderson
Tresses by Saeid Ghasemi, Atefeh Salehi
Velvet Rendezvous by Clayton Henderson
Teleplays:
Barefoot in Harlem by Kim Louise Whiteside
Báthory by Brenna N. Penrod
Black, White & Blue: Rising Sun by Tamika Lamison
Precursor by Steve Brown
The Back End by Daniel Gessner, Kyle Campbell
Time of Your Life by John McGuigan
Until It Wilts by Elena N Loedding

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