Winners of the 2016 HPU Short Script Contest Announced

BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPTS: 
   First Place: Hannah Smith, "The Good, The Bad, and the Mundane" 

   Second Place:  Dustin Connis, "Cigarette Blow Dart Man"

   *Third place - None awarded

BEST ADAPTED SCRIPTS: 
   First place: Dustin Connis, "Repent Harlequin" (based on Harlan Ellison's "Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman")
  Second place: Hannah Smith, "Obsolete" (based on the story by Chuck Palahniuk)
  *Third place: Liam Reddy, "I'll Be You" (based on the story by Daniel Cleary)
  *Third place: Meghan Vincent, "Red Plague's Masquerade" (based on Edgar A. Poe's "Masque of the Red Death") 

HONORABLE MENTION:
   Brianna Ferguson, "Letting Go" (Based on the story by Anne Brown)

*Instead of awarding a third place in the original script category, the judges decided to award two adapted scripts in the adapted category, each earning a full third place cash award.

 For more information, contact Professor of English Mark Tjarks, Ph.D., (mtjarks@hpu.edu or 808-  566-2445)

Dustin Connis, Hannah Smith, Liam Reddy, and Meghan Vincent