Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press Announce The Winner of the June 2025 Go Try PlayWrite Contest

 
For Immediate Release 07.23.2025

Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press Announce

The Winner of the June 2025 Go Try PlayWrite Contest 

Where: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street, Honolulu 
Contact: Sara Ward, officemanager@kumukahua.org, 536-4441 

HONOLULU HI – The June Go Try PlayWrite winner is Kemuel DeMoville for his piece 

You Can Feel It All the Way into the Core of Your Being. They Give Birth Astride

of a Grave, the Light Gleams an Instant, then it’s Night Once More

Kemuel DeMoville is an award-winning playwright, educator, and arts leader whose works have been produced around the world every year since 2005. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an MA in Syncretic Theatre from Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. His plays have been published by Next Stage Press, YouthPLAYS, Heuer Publishing, The Kenyon Review, Cirque, and are featured in anthologies such as 222 More Comedy Monologues from Smith and Kraus. He currently serves as the Director of the Drama Program at Spokane Falls Community College, where he teaches, directs, and mentors the next generation of theatre artists in the Inland Northwest.

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. 

June 2025 prompt

 A word salad prompt. This prompt is a little different. I will provide you the only lines you can use, and you will have to use the lines in the order that they occur in what I provide you. Write a ten to twelve-page maximum scene, not a monologue, using Trump’s response taken from a transcript of a Business Roundtable meeting in Doha, Qatar - May 15, 2025 recorded in Roll Call; 00:10:42-00:13:47