Excited to receive this announcement about my new play PLEA from the 2024 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
“We are thrilled to share that your script advanced to the Second Round in the Stage Play category! Though your script did not advance to our Semifinalist Round, please know Second Rounder is a distinguished accolade highly respected at Austin Film Festival and by the industry at large. The Second Rounder placement was achieved by approximately 20% of this year’s submissions. We hope you are proud and encouraged by your script’s recognition”
PLEA was inspired by my time covering courts as a news reporter. It’s about a troubled public defender who loves the law but begins to question her place in the court system and in life when a woman who killed her abusive husband refuses to make a deal.
The play just came off my computer so to speak so this is very exciting. This shows I’m on the right track.