Highly commended and commended plays

Winners

Prizewinner of English as a first language

Erin Browne for Trying - USA

Prizewinner of English as a second language

Efo Kodjo Mawugbe for The Prison Graduates – Ghana

Regional Winners

Russia and the Caucuses

Vasil Bassa Janikashvili for On the Latch – Georgia

Asia Pacific

Anna Bennetts for Shift – Australia

South Asia

Meher Pestonji for Feeding Crows – India

Europe

Csaba Székely for Do you like Banana, Comrades? – Romania

Shortlisted

Funmi Ade-Ajayi for Songs From the Wedding – Nigeria

Michael Aubertin for True Colours – St. Lucia

Libby Emmons for The Little Room – USA

Diana Estigarriba for Help Wanted – USA

Warren Lancelot D’Sylva for Saints – India

Alex Duval Smith for Password: Salamander – South Africa

Abdullah Alkafri for Damascus-Aleppo – Syria

Ike Aro for Money Matters – Nigeria

Karim Haidari for The Historical Summer – Afghanistan

Abiola Hameed for The Sixth Man – Nigeria

Virginia Jekanyika for Mbira – Zimbabwe

Mohamed Sheriff for The Demon – Sierra Leone

Highly Commended

Vincent Trueman for Touching Base - USA

El Elving for Histamine - USA

Aamina Naseer for To Flee, But Where? - USA

Namono Penrose for My Mirror - Uganda

Clare Sagiv for A Mother’s War - Israel

Shilpa Munikempanna for An Anagram of Life - India

Serban Anghene for Three in an Exile or Luxury Berth With a Sea View - Romania

Commended

Kenneth Antrobus for Union Joke - USA

Keith Hemstreet for The Superficial Transparency of Everything - USA

Michael Lew for People’s Park - USA

Humphrey Tyler for Miss Legs and Mister Moustache – South Africa

Robert H. Cochrane for Exit, Stage Death - Dubai

Bolaji Olatunde for A Requiem for Daniel Fregbo - Nigeria

Rory Kilalea for Witnesses - Zimbabwe

Jack Feldstein for The Sparkling City of Omar Mazen - Australia

Garrett Keogh for Echo Tango Tango - Ireland

Jennifer Harvey for How to Carve Small Figurines – The Netherlands

D.L. Kung for Dear Mr Rogge - Switzerland

Paul Till for Blue Envelope Time – Czech Republic

Shane Perez for The Mail Order Bride - Ireland

Yla Aalia Smetacek for Indian Summer - India

Paul Brodowsky for Fish Soup - Germany

Sheraz Khan Niazi for Where Ceutan Children Lie - USA

Enid Grace Parker for Blood and Sand - India

Annie Zaidi for Epicenter - India

Abhishek Majumdar for Harlsden High Street - India

Ezeaka Ikenna Chidubem for The Rich Pot - Nigeria

George Nyabuga for I Just Called to Say No - Kenya

Muammer Adnan Yildirim for Voice of a Judge - Turkey

Joseph Vella Bondin for Let’s Go to Kathmandu - Malta

John Hoelen for The Interviews - Belgium

Najwa Yassir for The Meeting Room – The Netherlands

Adam Lazar for Odd Man Out - Hungary