Elizabeth Appell
Credits & Awards

 

Plays:

Confessions of a Catholic Child
Workshop production, College of Marin Black Box, 1997
Full-length play, finalist Writer’s Network, 1998
Staged reading, Long Beach Playhouse
Fifth place 9,000, Writer’s Digest Playwriting Competition,1999
French Speaking Rights optioned, Jean-Pierre Avoine, Qc, 1999
Staged reading Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 2000;
Finalist, The Proscenium Theatre, 2003
Finalist, Moon Dance Film Festival, 2003,
First Prize, Virtual Theatre Project, Los Angeles, 2006
Full production, Virtual Theatre Project, August 2007

Runaways’ Eyes, short one-act for handicap actor, First, College of Marin Short Play Festival, 1997; performed for handicaps groups throughout the county, 1997.

Easy Made Hard (One Act Play)
Finalist, Vortex Repertory Theatre

Moon Walkers
Full-length play, staged reading, Sonoma Repertory Theatre Company, 2000
Staged reading, Do Gooder Productions, New York, 2001
Staged reading, Actors’ Theatre, Santa Rosa, 2001
Ninth place out of 19,000 submissions, Writer’s Digest Playwriting Competition, 2002 Third Place, Virtual Theatre Project, Los Angeles, 2005
Reading, Theatre Tribe, 2007
Finalist, staged reading featuring Jamie Denton of Desperate Housewives, 2006
Finalist, Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition. (400 submissions), 2008
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference, 2008

Journal of a Common Man, one-act play, judged Best Play and Best Actor, Dominican College’s Festival of Short Plays, 2003

Chalk Lines, full-length play, completed November 2005 (I consider this my “war play)

Squawk! A Comic Opera for Cabaret, produced as dinner theatre, critically acclaimed, alternate in the New York Fringe Festival

 

Short Stories:

Swimming Toward the Butterscotch Man
Storied Crossings Anthology. Scribes Hill, Salem,VA, 2002

Tiger Rose
Finalist Writer’s Digest Mainstream/Literary Short Story Competition, 2000
Storied Crossings Anthology, Scribes Valley Publishing, 2005

Lost Language
Finalist, Writer’s Digest Mainstream/Literary Short Story Competition, 2000.
First Place, Foster City Literary Competition, 2005.
Third Place, Central Coast Writers’ Literary  Competition, 2006
Finalist, Ann Arbor Book Festival, 2006

Fragile Decisions,
Wellington Blues, 2003
Fragile X Anthology, 2006

Warnings from the Bathtub,
Published Snake Nation, 2006

The Sentry,
Southwest Writers Literary Cometition, Third Place, 2005
Columbine Award, Moondance Film Festival, 2006
Write Movies.com, Honorable Mention, 2005
Published, North Atlantic Review, 2005-2006

Falling Backward
National League of American Pen Women,
First Place Dorothy Daniels Award, 2005
Published, RiverSedge, 2007

Crossing the Line
Columbine Award, Moondance Film Festival, 2006

Stain
Finalist, 2006 Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction
Published, The Binnacle, 2009

 

Screenplays:

Screening Device
Optioned, OK Productions, Los Angeles, 1999
Finalist, Script Spectacular, 2009

Orgasms and Other Lies
Writers Network, Semi-Finalist, 2003
Moondance, Finalist, 2004
Acclaim Entertainment Screenwriting Competition , Finalist, 2004
Write Movies.com, Finalist, 2007
Nevada Film Office Screenwriting Competition, Finalist, 2007

Easy Made Hard (Short Film)
Finalist, American Gem Short Screenplays, 2006
Second Round Qualifier, Kaos British Short Film Competition, 2008
Short Listed, Reel Women, Los Angeles, 2008
Finalist, The Bridge International Screenwriting Competition, 2009
Warnings from the Bathtub (Short film)
Finalist, American Gem Short Screenplays

Lessons from the Gypsy Camp  (Adaptation from  the novel to screenplay)
Third place in Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Literary Competition 2004.
First Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2004
Finalist in Spec Spectacular Screenwriting Competition, 2005
First Place, Nevada State Film Commission, 2006
Second Place, TV Writer.com, 2007
Finalist, Page Screenwriting Awards, 2007
Optioned by LMG, 2007

Moon Walkers (Adaptation from the play to screenplay)
Semi-Finalist, Blue Cat Screenplay Competition, 2007
Semi-Finalist, Acclaim Screenplay Competition, 2007
Semi-Finalist, Fade-In Screenplay Competition, 2008
Semi-Finalist, Writemoves.com Screenplay Competition, 2008
Semi-Finalist, Story Pros Screenplay Competition, 2008
Semi-Finalist, Moondance Screenplay Competition, 2008
Finalist, Writer’s Place, 2008

The Extra Mile
First Prize, Treatment Category, American Gem, 2008

 

Novels:

Dancing with the Dark, 1998
A Question of Forgiveness, 1999
Lessons from the Gypsy Camp, Scribes Valley Publishing, 2004
Elements of Betrayal, 2009

 

Novel Award:

Lessons from the Gypsy Camp, Rebeccasreads.com pick for best fiction 2004