MEET THE 2022 COLLEGE SCREENWRITING AWARD WINNERS

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Hayley Tibbenham

Award: Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award
Script: Songs Without Words
Format: Feature
Logline: To escape marriage in 1820s Berlin, a defiant socialite fights to prove herself as a composer, threatening her family’s reputation and her cunning younger brother’s rise to musical fame. Based on the lives of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn – composers of The Wedding March.
Pronouns: she/her

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V Marks

Award: David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Award
Script: Puberty Too
Format: Half-Hour Pilot
Logline: Just as he’s starting testosterone, a 23-year-old trans man is forced to adopt his 13-year-old brother and raise him in the heart of queer Brooklyn. In a microculture where everyone’s a model-activist and nobody’s just straight, the two brothers have to figure out how to shave, why they’re so sweaty, and what it means to be a man.
Pronouns: they/he

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