Past Festivals
Fade To Black Play Festival Winners
2023
Larissa Brewington (Phoenix, AZ) - "micro"
Charlett Bundy (Annapolis, MD) - "No, He Can't Sit Down!"
Charity Clark-Anderson (Southfield, MI) - "Mama's Breath"
Robert T. Fields (Richmond, CA) - "Keeper"
Mildred Inez Lewis (Los Angeles, CA) - "Louisiana Shoal"
Marita A. McKee (Pensacola, FL) - "In Passing"
Lorna Taylor (Houston, TX) - "Just Like Family"
Harold JAY Trotter (Houston, TX) - "Unconditional"
Vincent Victoria (Houston, TX) - "The New Girl"
Curtis Von (Houston, TX) - "The Dilemma"
2022
April Amara (College Park, MD) – “Dinner with a View”
Calley N. Anderson (Brooklyn, NY) – “Performative”
Leslie Dianne (New York City, NY) – “Forget Me Not”
Krystle Dellihue (Wayne, MI) – “Hattie (A Set at the Table)”
Eric C. Jones (Houston, TX) – “Going Up!”
Nattalie Gordon (Fayetteville, GA) – “Hey, Best Friend!”
Joe A. Lewis (Silver Spring, MD) – “Forbidden Places”
DeLane McDuffie (Los Angeles, CA) – “Monomachia”
Corey Shields (Houston, TX) – “Busted”
Christian Wilburn (San Francisco, CA) – “White Card”
2021
Shaneisha Dodson (CA) - "Final Goodbye"
Bonita Elery (Atlanta, GA) - "Hot Potato"
Mildred Inez Lewis (Los Angeles, CA) - "Jab, Cross, Hook"
Russell Nichols (Vallejo, CA) - "Why Husbands Hold Their Tongue"
Joe A. Lewis (Silver Spring, MD) - "Choices"
Paula Celeste Neeley (Minnetonka, MN) - "Dear Fannie"
Patrina Randolph (Houston, TX) - "One Way or Another"
Kimberly Ridgeway (Hayward, CA) - "The Contract"
James Anthony Tyler (Los Angeles, CA) - "Those Wishing"
Daysha Veronica (Los Angeles, CA) - "Olivia's Last Night in Venice"
2020
Toccara Castleman (Brooklyn, NY) - "Escaping Inward"
Marcus Colon (Fort Myers, FL) - "Home Life"
Jeremy Holloway (Cordova, TN) - "BlackHeaven"
DeLane McDuffie (Los Angeles, CA) - "Cop and Fiske"
Russell Nichols (Vallejo, CA) - "Invisibility"
Patrina Randolph (Houston, TX) - "Controlled Substance"
Crystal Rae (Houston, TX) - "Raising Solomon"
Angela Y. Rice (Houston, TX) - "Jesus, The Good Time Charlie"
Clinnesha D. Sibley (McComb, MS) - "The Cleaning Ladies"
Rukiya Varner (Virginia Beach, VA) - "Yellow Lilies"
2019
Simone Black (St. Albans, NY) - "From This Moment On"
Sharai Bohannon (Chicago, IL) - "Well That Just Happened"
Zachariah Ezer (Brooklyn, NY) - "Time To A Phantom"
Ken Green (Boston, MA) - "The Line"
Reginald C. Jackson (Chicago, IL) - "Convictions"
Darien Mitchell (Washington, DC) - "Aggression"
Lewis Morrow (Kansas City, KS) - "Ain't Dirt on Your Hands"
Renée Nixon (Durham, NC) - "Dazed and Stunned"
Alan Sharpe (Washington, DC) - "Bedtime Story"
Corey Shields (Houston, TX) - "Jody"
2018
Calley Anderson (New York, NY) - "Trick or Treat?"
Yunina Barbour-Payne (Houston, TX) - "Tobacco Fields"
Maya Critchlow (Houston, TX) - "What About Tomorrow?"
Vincent Terrell Durham (Van Nuys, CA) - "Home For The Holidays With The Lord"
Peter Fields (Kent, OH) - "The Visit"
Ken Green (Boston, MA) - "The Campaign"
Lionell A. Hilliard (Houston, TX) - "Is Orange the New Black?"
Eric C. Jones (Houston, TX) - "War Letters"
Brandon Riley (Tempe, AZ) - "Easy As Pie"
T J Young (Pittsburgh, PA) - "Before The Fire"
2017
Markietha Ka'Von Singleton, (Chicago, IL) - "Blithe Taste"
Finalists:
Chuck Cummings, (S. Pasadena, CA) - "Rest In Peace"
Rachel Dickson, (Houston, TX) - "To Each His Own"
Timothy Eric (Houston, TX) - "Switchback"
Evonne Fields-Gould (Kent, OH) - "Life, Love, & Boobs"
Markietha Ka'Von Singleton, (Chicago, IL) - "Blithe Taste"
Joe A. Lewis, (Silver Spring, MD) - "Dream"
Asia Nichols, (Vallejo, CA) - "Incredible Darling"
Dana Stringer, (Atlanta, GA) - "Ms. Frankie Lee"
Lorna Taylor (Houston, TX) - "What Is Greater Than Fear"
A'ndrea J. Wilson, (Soperton, GA) - "On Da Rooftop"
2016
Angela Y. Rice (Houston, TX) - "And A Child Shall Lead Them"
Finalists
Tina Burnside (Minneapolis, MN) - "Just A Rope?"
Kim El (Pittsburgh, PA) - "Of Nine Tales"
Joe A. Lewis (Silver Spring, MD) - "Greater Good"
Russell Nichols (Vallejo, CA) - "There Once Was A Jack In The Box: A Mad Scientist's Lament"
Angela Y. Rice (Houston, TX) - "And A Child Shall Lead Them"
Anthony Roberts (Brooklyn, NY) - "The Kiss of Auset"
Stacey Rose (Bronx, NY) - "Summer '89: Prelude"
Dana Stringer (Atlanta, GA) - "Looter"
Caron Tate (Los Angeles, CA) - "Spellcheck"
Marlow Wyatt, (Los Angeles, CA) - "Sweetie's Confession"
2015
Angela Y. Rice (Houston, TX), "The Vessel By Which"
Finalists
Melanie E. Burke (Houston, TX) - "In The Still of the Night"
Dana Clark-Brocks (Dallas, TX) - "Valentine's Day Murder"
Chuck Cummings (S. Pasadena, CA) - "Edmonia's Marble"
Kelvin Douglas (Houston, TX) - "Driving Miss Crazy"
Ken Green (Boston, MA) - "State"
Ron Jones, Jr. (Round Rock, TX) - "Unsolicited Material"
Thomas Meloncon (Houston, TX) - "Color Blind"
Angela Y. Rice (Houston, TX) - "The Vessel by Which"
Dana Stringer (Atlanta, GA) - "Colored In Winter"
Travis Tate (Austin, TX) - "Whipped"
2014
Melanie E. Burke (Houston, TX), "Saving Grace"
Finalists
Melanie E. Burke (Houston, TX) - "Saving Grace"
James Earl Hardy (New York, NY) - "A Kiss is Just a Kiss"
Juanita Harvey (Philadelphia, PA) - "Long Distance Love"
Lou Johnson (Nashville, TN) - "The Lepers of Orchard Park"
Michelle T Johnson (Kansas City, KS) - "Olivia's Little Patch of Snow"
Aaron McDavis (Rowlett, TX) - "A Psycho's Path"
Barbara & Carlton Molette (Atlanta, GA) - "Kin Ship"
Aurin Squire (Brooklyn, NY) - Morehouse Men"
Dana Stringer (Atlanta, GA) - "Costume Waver"
Stacey Rose (Bronx NY) - "My Pet"
2013
Angela Batravil (Los Angeles, CA) - "Venus and Mars - Date Night"
Finalists
Angela Batravil (Los Angeles, CA) - "Venus and Mars - Date Night"
Rachel DuBose (Evanston, IL) - "Lonely Hearts"
Peter Anthony Fields" (Kent, OH) - "Burden"
Kevin R. Free (New York, NY) - "Portal, or Metaphorical Tricycle"
Michelle T. Johnson (Kansas City, KS) - "A Rebecca By Any Other Name Is Still A Becky"
Eric C. Jones (Houston, TX) - "American Rifle"
Nate Jones & Tynesha Clark (Houston, TX) - "A Sunny Day In Chicago"
Alonzo D LaMont, Jr. (Baltimore, MD.) - "Cultural Diversity Ate My Lunch"
Barbara & Carlton Molette (Atlanta, GA) - "Last Supper"
Carol Roper (Imperial Beach, CA) - "Airport Diner"