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Award Winning Plays for Competition and Stage
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 | | James McLindon |
| | | James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theater Co. in New York. His play, When We Get Good Again won the Playhouse on the Square’s New Works @ The Works competition and premiered there in Memphis, winning an Ostrander Theatre Award for Best Original Script. The play will receive its third production in New York. Salvation, was developed at PlayPenn and premiered in New York, Giovanna Sardelli directing, to critical acclaim in the New York Times and elsewhere. Comes a Faery was developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sean Daniels directing, was a finalist for the Humana Festival, and was premiered at the New Ohio Theatre by Nylon Fusion. Mr. McLindon’s plays have been developed and/or produced at theaters such as the O’Neill (selection and six-time semifinalist), PlayPenn, Victory Gardens, Lark, Abingdon, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, Samuel French Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Rep, Lyric Stage, Boston Playwrights, Local Theatre, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Seven Devils. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Brooklyn Publishing, Applause Books, Next Stage Press, and Original Works Publishing, and produced all over the world including London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Luxembourg, India, Dubai and Estonia.
Prizes: Winner: Ostrander Award Best Original Script; Best comedy, Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards; John Gassner Playwriting Award (three times), Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Award (2nd, 3rd and 5th place finishes); Siena College International Playwrights Competition; Pestalozzi Prize; John Gassner New Play Festival; Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition; Andaluz Prize, Fusion Theatre; Finalist: Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy and Heideman Award, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville (six times); Semifinalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (six times); Nominee: Joseph Jefferson Citation, Best New Play. | |
| | | Plays by James McLindon with Brooklyn Publishers: | | GOOD TALK | | GUARANTEED | | HERE THERE BE PIRATES | |
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