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2016 KONDAZIAN PLAYWRITING AWARD FOR ARMENIAN STORIES


WINNER ​
Forgotten Bread by Sevan Kaloustian Greene   

An ode to the Armenian Genocide, Forgotten Bread is the volatile, and sometimes
humorous, journey of a Lost Son trying to uncover his family's past and reclaim his
cultural identity. Past and Present collide and melt into one another as he
descends further down the rabbit hole of life, death, and survival pushed along by
family secrets and historical truths. How can you undo the forced memory loss of
survivor’s guilt to find your place in a world that has forgotten your people?

                                                                           FINALISTS

Wishing and Flesh by Susan Kelejian    

When Armenian-American college student Ani brings home her Turkish boyfriend
Taner, an argument about history turns into a family crisis.
To make peace with the family and to win back the girl he loves he develops an unexpected 
her grandmother, a genocide survivor, who confuses the past with the present and casts 
Taner in the role of her childhood sweetheart
Guzel—also a Turk. 
   
Ermeni by Eric Sirakian  

“Wishing and Flesh” is a full-length play is based on the real life trials of American-
Armenian writer, Steven Vincent, a New York journalist who was tortured and killed
in Iraq in 2005. After witnessing the Twin Towers fall from his apartment window,
Vincent gave up his art critic focus and turned his attention on the Middle East, in
order to report back via blogs and op-ed articles of real situations that the nightly
news was omitting.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

From Sacred Wrath by Taleen Babayan
I Am Alive by Denise Gentilini & Lisa Nemzo

My Genius of Humanity by Richard Kalinoski 
Displacement
 by Shauna Vartanian

ADAA WISHES TO THANK THE FOLLOWING JURY FOR THEIR TIME
​

Chris Atamian, Seta Baramian, Ralph Gregory Hurst, Lisa Kirazian, Yervand Kochar,
Kristen Lazarian, Armina LaManna, Michael Peretzian, Tanya Yerevanian


The announcement of the winner will take place in Los Angeles in early 2017
Picture
Karen Kondazian, Sponsor


Finalists FOR THE $1,000
2014 Armenian GENOCIDE CommeMORATION Award

WINNER

Bosphorus  by Gorune Aprikian and Eric De Roquefeuil

FINALISTS

My Genius of Humanity  by Richard Kalinoski 
In the Name of Silence 
by Sevan Kaloustian-Greene
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