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The Jewish Plays Project recommends THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers highly enjoyed this love letter and deeply moving tribute to a family coming to terms with multiple kinds of losses. This play explores the emotional journey of parents trying to keep promises to their deceased child that may cause more family turmoil. A beautiful play of enduring love through hardships. THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES rose to the top 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project recommends SIMPLY SO MUCH NIGHT as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers highly enjoyed the strong stylistic choices made in this story of women who dedicated their lives to tikkum olam and gives them a second chance at what they've denied themselves. This piece is a warm, ethereal dream-like world as characters discover life is not just about being a Mensch, but living fully. SIMPLY SO MUCH NIGHT rose to the top 20 out of 250 plays and we hope it swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project recommends L'DOR v'DOR as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers highly enjoyed how this play vocalized the inner struggles of a biracial Jewish multi-generation family in a way that feels fresh and different. This play asks:'what can be gleaned from past generations as we move forward with our lives?' and addresses the difficulty in moving forward. L'DOR v'DOR rose to the top 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project recommends FEMALE, ASHKENAZI WITH A SEWING MACHINE as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers were compelled by the strong theatricality while bringing awareness to a genetic mutation within Ashkenazi community, through one woman's journey of love, sickness, and soul-searching. Our readers were highly moved and related to this poetic story of grace, love, and imagination as Anna discovers her identity. FEMALE, ASHKENAZI WITH A SEWING MACHINE... rose to the top of 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project recommends BERLINDIA! as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers highly enjoyed the formal experimentation of this play capturing themes of migration, displacement, and wandering that feel inherently Jewish. This play asks the question: "if my family is my only home, what anchors me when my family grieving intergenerational trauma or disappears? This play is intersectional and gives JewBu characters their moment in the sun (or moon!). BERLINDIA! rose to the top of 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project recommends A PICKLE as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers highly enjoyed how this play tied together tradition, food, and society so beautifully and appreciated the way this play expanded on something so seemingly simple to draw out larger issues of anti-Semitism and discrimination. A powerful piece for an actress. A PICKLE rose to the top 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project encourages FINDING MR. RIGHTSTEIN as a Honorable Mention for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. This play sparked a rigorous discussion with our community of readers as an exciting, engaging, and moving play that resonated with contemporary Jewish life. FINDING MR. RIGHTSTEIN rose to the top out of 250 plays, and we hope this piece finds opportunities for further development so this contemporary Jewish story can reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project encourages "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (or at least our best approximation) as a Honorable Mention for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. This play sparked a rigorous discussion with our community of readers as an exciting, engaging, and moving play that resonated with contemporary Jewish life. "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" rose to the top out of 250 plays, and we hope this piece finds opportunities for further development so this contemporary Jewish story can reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project encourages THE JEWISH QUESTION as a Honorable Mention for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. This play sparked a rigorous discussion with our community of readers as an exciting, engaging, and moving play that resonated with contemporary Jewish life. THE JEWISH QUESTION rose to the top out of 250 plays, and we hope this piece finds opportunities for further development so this contemporary Jewish story can reach new audiences.

The Jewish Plays Project encourages SWEET SPOT as a Honorable Mention for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. This play sparked a rigorous discussion with our community of readers as an exciting, engaging, and moving play that resonated with contemporary Jewish life. SWEET SPOT rose to the top out of 250 plays, and we hope this piece finds opportunities for further development so this contemporary Jewish story can reach new audiences.