AGONY'S FOURTH SHORT SCRIPT COMPETITION: FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The finalists in our Fourth Short Script Competition were announced April 26, 2004. The finalists are:
Dealer Takes All by Maggie Bruen
Desperation by Steven Paul
Flounder by Luke Thomas Crowe
Heavy Duty by Mark Garbett
Lovers by Kenneth Staples
Patron by Frank Reilly
Polly and Me by Toni Sherwood
Reaper's Christmas by Vinny Smith
Sacrifice by Carl Joglar
The Familiar Joys of Peanut Butter and Jelly by Rob Hoffman
The Other Woman by Cornelia Ravenal
Born to be Wild by Lee Ann Riddle
We closed submissions for our fourth short script competition on October 31st, 2003 and received hundreds of entries! We would like to thank all of our members who submitted scripts. We will be producing a staged reading of the finalists, and produce the winning short script!
THEATER
Agony Productions premiered Chris Callahan's "Four Quarters" in the
New York International Fringe Festival, August 9 - 25, 2002. Check out our
Four Quarters page for more information.
Four Quarters is an innovative play about two adults' discovery of their
inner halves while searching for their "other half." Every twist and step of
the relationship leads to the realization that what each character needs the
most is to connect their own inner halves. With each person in the
relationship being played by two actors, a new and interesting dynamic to the
bonds between the characters is brought to the stage in every scene. Meet Jo
and Joe and Teri and Terry. Four Quarters, working and pushing and struggling
to connect, trying to be one whole.
FILM
The Third Short Script Competition
Talented Agony member Vincent Viņas won our Third Short Script Competition with his entry The Devil Made Me Do It, which was staged in New York at Raw Space along with 7 other finalists. The audience voted and Vincent was handed a prize of $150. Congratulations Vincent!
The other finalists were Brian Smith's It's a Gas, LeVera Sutton's Pyramids, Carl Joglar's Bad Blood, Stephen Bittrich's Baby Factory, Georgiana Lee's Kitta Chronicles, Andrew Cucci's Strawberry Letters, and Mark Glassman's Greener.
The Second Selected Agony Short Script: Opportunity Mutiny
Our second competition was won by Vincent Viņas for his hysterical script Opportunity
Mutiny: When three guys reflect on life's missed chances, opportunity knocks... and
stays a while.
Opportunity Mutiny
Status: Post-production. Filing for film festivals TBD
Director/Writer: Vincent Viņas
Producer: Jayson Vades
Location: NYC
Cast: Jayson Vades, Edwin Matos, Jr., Jonathan Castro
Crew: DP: Sedlav Yaj, AD: Amy Peters.
The First Selected Agony Short Script: The Vegetable
A woman conspires with her lover to kill her vegetable husband for the
insurance money, but the vegetable "has a mind of his own". Stephen
Bittrich's self-described "twisted" black comedy is the winner of the first
Short Screenplay Competition sponsored by Agony Productions, shooting TBA.
The Vegetable
Status: Pre-production. Awaiting funding. SAG production
Writer: Stephen Bittrich
Director: Stephen Bittrich
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