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    • The Tarantula's Pet Frog
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    • The Mama and the Papa
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    • Prisoners' Choice
    • Ambitious Cutlery
    • Surfing in Munich
    • Eleventh Night
    • Your Server Tonight Is Cassandra
    • Shelter in Comfort
    • The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
    • Feline High-Rise Syndrome
    • This Particular Crevasse
    • The Name of Action
    • Fit for a King
    • A Supportive Wife Supports Her Wife
    • Cathy Haunts Catherine
    • Lullaby for a Librarian
    • Cobra Versus Tiger
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    • Taking the Plunge
    • Played for a Sap
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    • Wayward Seniors
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    • Bigger Move
    • Catching Hendrix
    • Ngā Wai o Te Tairāwhiti
    • Stage Fights Screen
    • Restoring Romeo
    • President Charles Evans Hughes
    • Almost Immortal
    • Pushing Buttons
    • Friendly Skirmish
    • Rabbit Warns Gannet
    • Librarians Embrace Fiction
    • Money Talks Too Loud
    • Never Say DEI
    • Miriam's Mother
    • Retha's First March
    • Trumpettes Anonymous
    • Table in the Air
    • Fruitful
    • Thrill of the Circus
    • Rivals-Slash-Friends
    • Triple Helping
    • Throw Me Out
    • One Wish Each
    • Welcome to Belarus
    • Phony on a Twig
    • Val's Remedy
    • The Top Seed and the Poor Seedlings
    • Helga Goes Bats
    • Disorderly Beulah
    • Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest)
    • Pseudo-Human Resources
    • Grounding Santa
    • Help Found
    • Subversive Action Chick
    • Rasha and Abd
    • Horror at Sea
    • Aleema the Boy Girl
    • Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister?
    • Fire Up
    • Marietta's Ultimatum
    • Love Those Cockroaches
    • Murder Runs in Our Family
    • Public Deaths
    • Gab Irish-Like
    • Orpheus Floats
    • Fraught Hike
    • Guts Out
    • Sugar Horror
    • Becky and Tom
    • Vegan Vigilantes
    • Phenomenals Anonymous
    • Zany Planets
    • Battle for the Front Seat
    • Kindness Pays
    • Natasha Toughs It Out
    • Beauty Store Saboteur
    • Fiery
    • Worst Villain
    • Save the Sasquatch
    • Her Daughter's Doll
    • We Aren't Aliens
    • Cushion
    • Party Crasher on a Mission
    • Stuck Fast
    • Next Door Nativity
    • Estella Expects a Lot
    • Canary Now
    • Enemies on a Date
    • The Flames of Patience
    • Graffiti Yarn
    • Family Tries
    • Tina, Queen of Scots
    • Squicky
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    • Thin End
    • Higgledy-Trilogy
    • Speechless
    • Geordie Heroine
    • Siege Ready
    • Inventive Dream
    • Elegant Rescue
    • Handling Temptation
    • The Fruits of Lust
    • Horrifying Mary
    • Possible Fathers
    • Refloat Our Whale
    • Swinging Campers
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    • Smile on a Mask
    • Two Divided by One
    • Two Minus Infinity
    • Two Times Ex
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    • The Ghostly Christmas Pest
    • The Ecstasy of Carmel
    • All's Fair in Tug of War
    • Unsuspecting Donor
    • Toothlessness Bites
    • Lost Judgment
    • Help Full
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    • Quick Light Touch
    • Kurt and Orla
    • They Never Leave Their Wives
    • Turn of the Tidier
    • Tui and the Immortal
    • The Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover
    • Best Chance Café
    • Roasting Death
    • Absconding Patient
    • Fountain of Youth
    • The Power of Enchantment
    • Clash of the Lorde Fans
    • The First Christmas Presents
    • Grandis, Juliette
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    • Penelope's Feast
    • Extreme Decluttering
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    • Love and Acoustics
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    • Chest-Beating for Gentlemen
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Eleventh Night ​won Best Play, LGBTQ+ Programming - AUDIENCE CHOICE, Short+Sweet Hollywood, Victory Theatre Center, Burbank, California, May 31, June 1, 7, 15, 2024, directed by Aidan Rees.
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Ngā Wai o Te Tairāwhiti won the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 10-Minute Play Competition, 2024.
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LJ Mill (Ngaio), Caleb Collier (Hau) and Amber Aitkenhead (Dyllis) in Ngā Wai o Te Tairāwhiti (online reading) Playwrights Association of New Zealand, August 26, 2024

Eleventh Night was a winner of the Winter 2024 Scratch Night, Scriptwriters & Co, Bath, UK, 2024.
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Video of Savannah Betts (Sibella), Laura Corradi (Viola) and Al Brunker (Fluellen)​ in Eleventh Night

Tui and the Immortal won the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 5-Minute Play Competition, 2023.

Love and Acoustics won 2nd place at Words on Water Playwriting Contest, Blue Institute, Harwich, Massachusetts, 2023. Script published online

Gruesome Gift was a winner of the Spring 2023 Scratch Night, Scriptwriters & Co, Bath, UK, 2023
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Video of Ryan Sett (Softy) and Holly Bodimeade (Gladys) in Gruesome Gift

 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, 2018.
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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