Playwrights Festival Forum winners

This was the 24th year for the Civic's annual celebration of new scripts. Next year's PFF will mark a notable anniversary.

There were four one-act plays competing this last weekend. Judges awarded the "Best of the Fest" (based on merit as a script alone, irrespective of the quality of production that the script may have received here) to Reed McColm for "The Mediation" (about a copyright dispute in which the opponents are better at working out their problems than the obtuse mediator is). The Audience Choice Award went to "Wet Clay" by Jake Farley of Seattle.

In the full-length category, out of 45 scripts submitted, *Lost Children* by Seattle’s Thomas Pierce (first place); and *Skin Deep* by New York’s Rich Orloff (runner-up) had already been honored. Congrats to all!