A is For is thrilled to announce the winning plays from our 2025-26 Playwriting Contest!

These plays will be featured as readings during our upcoming all it takes is ONE ACT Festival on Monday, June 15th at Playwrights Horizons:

1st place: Pandemonium! by Nancy Sun

As a giant panda, Yiyi’s purpose is to save her species from extinction. And according to her Instagram, it might also be her whole personality :) But after struggling with her fertility for nine years, Yiyi starts to doubt whether her life’s work requires her to bear cubs. When you live in captivity, though, do you really have a say? PANDEMONIUM! is about the hard choices we make in a society that values new life, yet restricts the bodies that make life possible. Inspired by real-world animal conservation efforts, our contemporary reproductive rights discourse, and the chronically online, this play is for those who touch grass and those who should.

2nd place: Omo Mi by Sadia Alao

Omo Mi follows Amina, a young Nigerian-American girl who has to navigate an unexpected pregnancy and possible abortion while dealing with her overbearing mother, Halima, who is vehemently pro-life. Set over the backdrop of Egungun masquerade and Yoruba mysticism, this story explores the notions we impose on women’s sexual and physical beings and how these impositions ultimately lead to generational hurt.

3rd place: The Ella Elliott Fan Club of Southeast Wisconsin by Lauren Wimmer

It's 2008 and four high school kids have a fan club for their favorite Christian movie star and singer Ella Elliott. They idolize Ella Elliott for being a pro-life warrior in the liberal Hollywood landscape. From a basement in the suburbs outside of Milwaukee, they work on raising money to have Ella Elliott perform at their church's summer fair. When one of the members becomes pregnant, they must come to terms on what to do. And how.

Join us for an evening of art, busting abortion stigma, and community. The readings will be followed by a talkback.
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The A is For Playwriting Contest and ONE ACT Festival engages playwrights who are passionate about supporting abortion rights and reproductive justice, and offers theater audiences the opportunity to see those stories represented on stage.
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