Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press Announce The Winner of the December 2023 Go Try PlayWrite Contest
For Immediate Release 01.17.2024
Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press Announce
The Winner of the December 2023 Go Try PlayWrite Contest
Where: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street, Honolulu
Contact: Sara Ward, officemanager@kumukahua.org, 536-4441
HONOLULU HI – The December Go Try PlayWrite winner is Danielle E. Moore for her piece These White Men are Dangerous
Danielle E. Moore (she/they) is an NYC-based writer and producer. She is the EP of Green Light Group Productions, where she leads the development of new musicals and related content across stage and screen, and has developed and produced content for companies including NBCUniversal and The Shubert Organization. Select theater credits include the Audrey Hepburn biomusical Audrey, which premiered Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre in summer 2022, and premiered regionally with Helen Hayes Award-winning theater company Creative Cauldron in Washington D.C. in May 2023, becoming the highest-grossing production in the organization’s 20-year history; and the interactive TV singing competition musical CROSSOVER (City of Philadelphia Illuminate the Arts Grant; Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Theater to See This Week”). She received a 2018 Office of the Provost Year of Innovation Grant to lead a student workshop of a revisionist musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a 2024 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Grant. A finalist for the 2021 Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project, she holds a B.A. from The Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. www.greenlightgroupproductions.com.
December 2023 prompt: A “what’s in the news” part two prompt. Write a ten (10) page maximum scene or an six (6) page maximum monologue of a child responding to an event currently in the news. They may or may not proffer a solution, but they do add clarity to the event. The child could be talking to an adult or other children. Find all the innocence and cruelty in a child’s perspective.
Each month Kumu Kahua Theatre co-sponsors this playwriting contest with Bamboo Ridge Press in their combined effort to nurture local playwrights and authors. Each month a different judge is pulled from amongst the theatre practitioners in the Hawaii theatre community. All plays submitted are read by Kumu Kahua Theatre Artistic Director, Harry Wong III.
Kumu Kahua Theatre is now accepting entries for the
January 2024 Go Try PlayWrite Contest.
January Prompt: A New Year’s resolution prompt. Write a ten (10) page maximum scene or an six (6) page maximum monologue of the first challenge to a person’s New Year’s resolution. It’s a resolution that the character has made, and you should choose whether they succeed or fail when confronted.
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Contest Rules: Each entrant must write a 5-page monologue and/or a 10-page scene based on monthly requirements. Each month a new prompt will be chosen by Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Artistic Director. The prompt will be given on or by the 1st of the month and the due date will always be the last day of the month. All entries must be written in traditional play format; instructions on this format can be found here: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/script-formats courtesy of the Dramatists Guild.
There will be one winner each month. Scripts will be submitted to the judges anonymously. So please do not put your name on the cover of your script. Winners will receive $100.00 and a subscription to Bamboo Ridge Press.
Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Richard Aadland Fund, The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, H. Hawaii Media, Simply Storage, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, Ron and Rachel Heller, Leonard and Charlotte Chow, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.