WINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE SIAN NI’ MHUIRI’ con AUNTY BEN
SPECIAL MENTION ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Khowaja Ebadullah Hayat/Roy Henry with The considerations of a seahorse
David Geasor with Mrs Tchaikovsky
Frank Avella with Vatican Falls – Special Mention
Anooj Bhandari with The dog is alive at the start of the play – Special Mention
CARLO ANNONI INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRITING PRIZE 2022
FOURTH EDITION 2021 – AWARDS GIVING TO THE WINNERS OF 12 SEPTEMBER AT THE PICCOLO TEATRO IN MILAN
The fourth 2021 edition of the Annoni Award ended with a great response from the public and a high-level debate on theater and civil rights issues.
English Language Winner Christian St. Croix with Monsters of the American Cinema. Special mention in English David Simpatico con X Gay Bar.
Winners in Italian ex aequo Alberto Milazzo with Tu sei la Bellezza and Elise Wilk with Coccodrillo, special mentions to Roberto Cavosi with Il girotondo delle serve, Rosario Palazzolo with Eppideis, Chiara Tessiore with Cara Virginia.
CARLO ANNONI AWARD 2019
Huge congratulations to all the writers that submitted they heartfeld work.We received 689 plays that we read over the last few months with passion and enthusiasm.
It was very hard to reach our final decision. Congratulations to our winners, that we formally acknorledge here below:
English language winner: Bixby Elliot, LINCOLN WAS FAGGOT
Special mention: Mark Erson , THE UNFINISHED GENIUS
Special mention short plays: Joe Gulla, SLEEPING WITH THE FISH “KIT Playwright Series – Stonewall 50”
Italian language winner: Laura Fossa, SHALOM
Special mention: Fortunato Calvino, SILK SKIN
Special mention short plays: Federica Cucco, ORLANDO
CARLO ANNONI AWARD 2018
A big thank you to the jury and the public for the exciting day on June 14 at Palazzo Reale.
The winners: were:
Best play in Italian:
“Zeus in Texas” by Sergio Casesi.
Special mentions:
“Gazali per l’emiro”by Ana Fernandez Valbuena
“The odds of the asterisk (*)” by Lisa Capaccioli.
“Gino, Monday rest” by Gianni Clementi.
Best play in English:
“Marc in Venice” by Mark Erson.
The winning play “Zeus in Texas” will be on stage,
in the form of “mise en espace”, at the Lecite/Visioni Festival at the Filodrammatici Theater of Milan on
October 28th, 2018 At 6 PM
The award ceremony evening was a great success with the public (more than 200 people) who celebrated the prize for playwrights dedicated to love.
The authors’ personalities impressed the audience with the presence of playwrights like the Lutheran pastor Mark Erson of New York, who has his church in Christhopher street, home of the Stonewall riots, and the musician and writer Sergio Casesi, and the fresh author of The odds of the asterisk (*) Lisa Capaccioli and Ana Fernandez Valbuena with her refined culture, and Gianni Clementi with his originality.
Ferdinando Bruni has enchanted the audience with the theatrical reading of passages from the winning play.
We were all happily impressed by the response of the public proving that the Carlo Annoni Prize has great potential.
The 2019 edition will be followed much more closely by the Municipality and by the patronizing theaters (Elfo Puccini, Filodrammatici, Teatro della Ringhiera, Outis Tramedautore) and there are already a lot of development ideas (openings to playwrights of repressive countries, prizes for young playwrights, and partnership with the Italian Theater Festival in New York).
