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    • Threatened Panda Fights Back
    • The Birds Are Feeding Me
    • Grow Up, Juliet
    • Grace Finds Kel
    • Ebook Meets Treebook
    • Prepper's Nightmare
    • Tickle That Dragon
    • Flight of the Cows
    • Stage Fights Screen
    • Don't Flip Your Snood
    • The Tarantula's Pet Frog
    • Val's Remedy
    • Monstrous Villainy
    • Fruitful
    • The Mama and the Papa
    • One Wish Each
    • Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest)
    • Garage Invasion
    • Proud Mary and Prejudiced Lydia
    • Grounding Santa
    • Restoring Romeo
    • Surfing in Munich
    • Unromantic Bouquet
    • This Particular Crevasse
    • Played for a Sap
    • A Supportive Wife Supports Her Wife
    • Feline High-Rise Syndrome
    • Shelter in Comfort
    • President Charles Evans Hughes
    • Helga Goes Bats
    • Welcome to Belarus
    • Table in the Air
    • Phony on a Twig
    • Rabbit Warns Gannet
    • Librarians Embrace Fiction
    • The Top Seed and the Poor Seedlings
    • The Name of Action
    • Money Talks Too Loud
    • Fingers and Toeses
    • Miriam's Mother
    • She's Got His Number
    • Thin End
    • Lullaby for a Librarian
    • Triple Helping
    • Mother of Chemistry
    • Horror at Sea
    • Retha's First March
    • Subversive Action Chick
    • Rivals-Slash-Friends
    • Pseudo-Human Resources
    • Help Found
    • Rasha and Abd
    • Aleema the Boy Girl
    • Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister?
    • Fire Up
    • Love Those Cockroaches
    • Trumpettes Anonymous
    • Amazons of Tomorrow
    • Dueling Judges
    • Murder Runs in Our Family
    • Cheerleaders and Cheeseburgers
    • Ambitious Cutlery
    • Public Deaths
    • The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
    • Gab Irish-Like
    • Two Divided by One
    • Rival Pseudonyms
    • Orpheus Floats
    • Smile on a Mask
    • Wayward Seniors
    • Almost Immortal
    • Your Server Tonight Is Cassandra
    • Sugar Horror
    • Taking the Plunge
    • Becky and Tom
    • Zany Planets
    • Battle for the Front Seat
    • Kindness Pays
    • Save the Sasquatch
    • Her Daughter's Doll
    • We Aren't Aliens
    • Cushion
    • Phenomenals Anonymous
    • Cobra v Tiger
    • Marked for Deletion
    • Party Crasher on a Mission
    • Next Door Nativity
    • Estella Expects a Lot
    • Canary Now
    • Enemies on a Date
    • Absconding Patient
    • The Flames of Patience
    • Family Tries
    • Marietta's Ultimatum
    • Vegan Vigilantes
    • Tina, Queen of Scots
    • Higgledy-Trilogy
    • Speechless
    • Geordie Heroine
    • Handling Temptation
    • The Fruits of Lust
    • Horrifying Mary
    • Possible Fathers
    • Refloat Our Whale
    • Swinging Campers
    • Jane Errant
    • Cathy Haunts Catherine
    • Skull Against the Sky
    • The Ghostly Christmas Pest
    • The Ecstasy of Carmel
    • All's Fair in Tug of War
    • Unsuspecting Donor
    • Toothlessness Bites
    • Lost Judgment
    • Help Full
    • Help Less
    • Natasha Toughs It Out
    • Eleventh Night
    • Kurt and Orla
    • Turn of the Tidier
    • The Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover
    • Best Chance Café
    • Roasting Death
    • Tempting Sabah
    • Fountain of Youth
    • The Power of Enchantment
    • Clash of the Lorde Fans
    • The First Christmas Presents
    • Grandis, Juliette
    • Herding Catastrophes
    • Penelope's Feast
    • Extreme Decluttering
    • Courtesy
    • Twilight of the Grizzly
    • Love and Acoustics
    • Boot's Trip
    • Fern and Her Father
    • Thirteenth Night
    • Abigail Wades In
    • Unfurl
    • Eradicting Apathy
    • Revitalized
    • Who Loves More
    • Chest-Beating for Gentlemen
    • That's No Mannequin (That's His Wife)
    • Put Down the Gun
    • Shredded
    • It Could Be Anyone
    • Skull
  • Plays
    • I Love an Earthling
    • Tricky Intervention
    • Sunshine in Every Window
    • Margaret Thatcher Changes the World
    • Girls Rock the Classics
    • Izzy Sticks With It
    • Birds and Money
    • Lady Godiva Womans Up
    • Three Weird Mornings at the Library
    • Manipulative
    • Honest Shakespeare
    • Queen Takes Emperor
    • Miss Imposter
    • Female Scientists to the Rescue
    • It's Ours! The Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover, 1971
    • Girls on the Brink
    • Grow Up, Girls
    • Brink Time
    • The Sword and the Gown
    • Safe Trip
    • Pacific Caper
    • Thena and Taz
    • Stale Obsession
    • A Hard Fifty Years' Night
    • Nine Plays Wonder
    • Clash of the Delusions
    • Lady Godiva Doesn't Ride Again
    • Who's Manipulative?
    • Margaret Thatcher Hits New Zealand
    • Wind Above the Water
    • Plights
    • Unpardonable Virtues
    • Nude with Tuba and Skull
    • Triple Fandango
    • Snatched
    • Hour of Misjudgement
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    • Lament of the Failed Alcoholic
    • Above the Stave
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    • A Flying Visit
  • Monologues
    • None of Your Blarney
    • Tabby's Plague Diary
    • Boot's Vacation
    • Nourishing Marion
    • Sweet Fright
    • Missing Applause
    • Olive Struts and Frets
    • Will Kemp's Turn
    • Frida Kahlo Must Be Jewish
    • Farsighted
    • An Educated Palate
    • Fern's Plan
    • Sweetness and Light
    • The One Waving
    • The Reluctant Barker
    • Shakespeare's Protestation
    • The Frog-Footman's Statement
    • A Bride for the Pope
    • Beaver Loves Otter
    • Derrick's Tactic
    • Post-Baby Body
    • Innocent Glutton
    • Officially Recovered
    • Carriage Horse Chat
    • Kia Orāna, Joe
    • Elizabeth's Revenge
    • Phoenix on Ice
    • The Movement You Need
    • The Roses or the Bat
    • Lady Godiva's Daughter
    • Friar Oswald's Confession
    • Let's Just Chill
    • Erica, Oswald and Shakespeare
    • Speechless
    • The Clueless Bishop
    • Your Attention, Please
    • Paddy's Spiel
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 Restoring Romeo won 2nd place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition: One-Act Play, New Albany, Mississippi, 2022.

Orpheus Floats ​won 2nd place in the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 10-Minute Play Competition, 2022.

Honest Shakespeare won 3rd place in the Playwrights Association of New Zealand One-Act Play Competition, 2022.

Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest) won the Surfside Playhouse 10-Minute Play Contest, Cocoa Beach, Florida, August, 2022.

Fern and Her Father was RUNNER-UP, BEST MICRO FILM, STAGE OR AUDIO SCRIPT at Scriptwriters & Co International Festival, Bath, UK, April 2022.
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Phony on a Twig won the Adult Category in the Northshore Arts in Bloom Playwriting Contest, Hammond, Louisiana, 2022.

Ambitious Cutlery won the Surfside Playhouse 10-Minute Play Contest, Cocoa Beach, Florida, January, 2022.
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Mason Harvey (Norm), Kathryn Hyatt (Spoonella) and Daniel Lee (Cutting) in Ambitious Cutlery

Rex McGregor won the Playwrights Association of New Zealand Outstanding Achievement Award 2021.

Rabbit Warns Gannet won first place in the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 10-Minute Play Competition, 2021.

Here are comments from the adjudicator, Emily Duncan:
  • "Wonderful imaginative quality in this very well-written script, which offers beautiful theatrical opportunities in performance. This is a play that would appeal to all age groups with its playful rendering of the natural world."
  • "Of the 25 submissions, the stand-out for me was Rabbit Warns Gannet. This writing is both a beautifully playful and solemn rendering and exploration of the natural world and our fragile and interconnected ecosystems. While it is specifically placed in Aotearoa-New Zealand, this is a work that would also have wider appeal. A clear sense of theatrical staging is forefront, without overshadowing the play’s content and characters. The opening image of Kori the Gannet bouncing on a trampoline is an immediate invitation for audiences of all ages to suspend disbelief. For these reasons I have awarded Rabbit Warns Gannet first place, and I look forward to (hopefully) hearing of a production of this script in the not too-distant future." 
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Julie McPhail (Sage) and Mat Hatten (Kori) in Rabbit Warns Gannet at East Coast Scribes, Evolution Theatre Company, Gisborne, New Zealand, January 22, 2022

Boot's Vacation won the Golden Ear - Short Form Award at Hear Me Out Monologue Fest: Borders, New York, NY, September 6, 2021.
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Video of Daniel Strausman (Boot)

Restoring Romeo won the Surfside Playhouse 10-Minute Play Contest, Cocoa Beach, Florida, August, 2021.
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Becky Behl-Hill (Charlotte), Chloe Collins​ (Sallie), David Hill (Edwin) and Steven J Wolf (Ben) in Restoring Romeo

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Pacific Caper won the ​Kumu Kahua Theatre Pacific Rim Prize, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2021.


Ebook Meets Treebook won the AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD at Knutsford Little Theatre Play Festival, Knutsford, UK, June 5-8, 2019.
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Bob Jennings (Pip) and Lucy Oliver (Ava) in Ebook Meets Treebook, Knutsford, UK

Geordie Heroine  (scratch performance) Rough Cuts and Scratches, Breakwater Theatre, Cleethorpes Library, Cleethorpes, UK, March 29, 2019 
  • AUDIENCE VOTE PRIZE WINNER

Threatened Panda Fights Back was the JUDGES CHOICE Week 1 at Short+Sweet Illawarra, Harbour Theatre, Shellharbour, Australia, October 4-7, 2018.
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Patrick Harrison (Ling) and Kaylee Ashton (Yan) in Threatened Panda Fights Back, Shellharbour, Australia

Rasha and Abd won the Playmarket 2018 PLAYS FOR THE YOUNG Competition - 8-12 year old category
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I Love an Earthling won the AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD at Summer Shorts, Theatre Workshop of Owensboro, Trinity Center, Owensboro, Kentucky, July 20, 22 & 28, 2018.
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Nikki Noffsinger (Mora), Lauren Hart (Deeann) and David Roark (Zaf) in I Love an Earthling, Owensboro, Kentucky

Ebook Meets Treebook won the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD​ at Stage It! Center for Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, April 28-29, 2018.​
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Eduardo Marin​ (Pip) and Kayleigh Campo (Ava) in Ebook Meets Treebook, Bonita Springs, Florida

Aleema the Boy Girl won the SCREENER'S CHOICE AWARD at the 8 in 48 Idaho Short Play Festival, Treasure Valley Children's Theater, Meridian, Idaho, September 26, 2015.​​
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Chris Bohme (Tabesh)
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Riley Zuschlag (Azad), Sheila McCoy (Aleema) and Savannah Haislip (Mursal) in Aleema the Boy Girl (Aleema Wants a Haircut), Meridian, Idaho

Threatened Panda Fights Back won two awards at Short+Sweet Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, September 20, 2015.
  • BEST COMEDY SCRIPT
  • PEOPLE'S CHOICE
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Mustaq Missouri (Ling), Georgina Silk (Mrs D), Irasa Siave (Yan), Rex McGregor (writer), Katie Burson (director). Front: Tom Wardle (Mr D)

  • Rex McGregor was awarded the 2015 and 2016 DOUG WRENN AWARD for achievement in playwriting "for the numerous productions of his short comedies". The award, presented by the Playwrights Association of New Zealand, is given annually to a member of the association who has had significant success in playwriting during the year.
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Playwrights Association of New Zealand (PANZ) 2014 One-Act Play Competition winners: (L-R) Rex McGregor, Colin Beardon, Bronwyn Elsmore