Screenplay Finalists

Screenplay finalists for the 2025 Omaha Film Festival will be announced in early February.

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’25 Screenplay Finalists!

Feature Length Scripts:
All Inclusive by Allyson Morgan
Aqualand by Luke Hunter
Aria by Steven Keith Bogart
Harlem Hustle by Mackenzie Blake Burton *
Hearts in Cellophane by Thomas Paul Rossi
Pro Life by Leah Simmons
Sequoia Blue by Josiah Signor
The Only Uber In Nebraska by Elise Sievert Bhushan
The Paris by Daniel Talbott *
The Salesman by Adam Seidel

Short Scripts (under 30 pages):
A Soul For a Song by Sikon Toure
Bubble Love by Ben Copeland
End Time by Michal Schick
Mailman by Robin Scovill
Mt. Fuji Sunrise by Thomas Paul Rossi *
Reheated by Jeffrey Howe *
The Adventure of the German Student by Doug Sasse
The Wave of the Future by Lovinder Gill

Teleplays:
Grown-Ass Theatre Kids by Benjamin Adams *
Space Case by Michael Brewer, Carlos Gabriel Ruiz
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The 411 by Allyson Morgan *
VIII by Michal Schick

* indicates inclusion in this year’s Writers Theatre

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Congratulations to the OFF’25 Screenplay Semi-Finalists!
Feature Length Scripts:
After the Harvest by Jeffrey Howe
All Inclusive by Allyson Morgan
American Fairy Tales by A.S. Templeton
Aqualand by Luke Hunter
Aria by Steven Keith Bogart
Dormmates by William Danze
Harlem Hustle by Mackenzie Blake Burton
Hearts in Cellophane by Thomas Paul Rossi
JEB by Craig Bettendorf
Let the Boy Sing by Gunnar Garrett
Path of Liberation by Mansoor H Laghari
Pro Life by Leah Simmons
Riverwalk by Robin Scovill, Lea Endres
Sacred Sun by Michael Louis Gould
Sequoia Blue by Josiah Signor
Swingman by Zeki Turgut Gezgez
Team Emma by Andrea Zastrow
That Summer We Stole Our Permanent Records by Kersti Niebruegge
The Not-So-Chosen One by Alex Souliere
The Only Uber In Nebraska by Elise Sievert Bhushan
The Paris by Daniel Talbott
The Salesman by Adam Seidel
Unconditional Surrender by Dennis Collins Johnson

Short Scripts (under 30 pages):
A Soul for a Song by Sikon Toure
Bram by Bradley Hildebrandt, Cullen Arbaugh
Bubble Love by Ben Copeland
Echos of Broken Promises by Andrea Zastrow
Eloise Is Awesome by David Paul Tieck
End Time by Michal Schick
Her Name Is Tilly, Too by Leah Simmons
Honed by Jeffrey Howe
I Sing the Life Electric by A.S. Templeton
Lollie by David Barbeschi, Agnès Shinozaki
Mailman by Robin Scovill
Mt Fuji Sunrise by Thomas Paul Rossi
On Sundays by Samantha Soule
Phil’s Wake by Gabe Spangler
Please Be Gentle by Daisy Friedman
Reheated by Jeffrey Howe
The Adventure of the German Student by Doug Sasse
The Doll by Lena Cigleris
The Hard Way by Sean Furey
The Survivor by Kevin Machate
The Wave of the Future by Lovinder Gill
Therapy by Bryan Whorton
Toxic Work Environment by Morgan Runice
White Lie by T’Asha Nicole Bray
Winter’s Embrace by Shantel Thompson
You Must Be New by Genevieve Radosti

Teleplays:
Grown-Ass Theatre Kids by Benjamin Adams
JUIF by Michele Noble
Space Case by Michael Brewer, Carlos Gabriel Ruiz
Spring Forward by Shaun Baland
The 411 by Allyson Morgan
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The Gilded Age: Splendid by Caroline Rovello
The Mâr Chronicles by A.S. Templeton
VIII by Michal Schick