Awards and Publications
AWARDS / ACCOLADES
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2020 Pulitzer-Nominated - Alabaster
2019 Kilroy's List - Alabaster
2018 Winner: Lambda Literary Award - LGBTQ Drama: The Gulf
2017 Winner: David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize: Alabaster
2017 Nomination: Helen Hayes - Charles McArthur Award for Best New Play: The Gulf
2016 Edgerton New American Play Award: The Gulf
Recipient: Boomerang Fund for Artists Grant Recipient
Recipient: Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Maytag Virgin
Recipient: Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Fin and Euba
Recipient: Alabama Council on the Arts Initiative Grant: Love is a Blue Tick Hound
OFF OFF BROADWAY
Winner: 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival: The Gulf
Winner: Strawberry One-Act Festival: Fin and Euba
Winner (Top 10 Finalist): EATFest: Clean
Finalist: Ensemble Studio Theatre: The Gulf
Finalist: Ensemble Studio Theatre: Fin and Euba
PUBLISHED VOLUMES
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Samuel French - Love is a Blue Tick Hound
Samuel French - Clean (One-Act)
Samuel French - The Gulf (One-Act)
Samuel French - Fin & Euba (One-Act
Samuel French - Stuck (One-Act)
Samuel French - Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series
Applause Books - Best American Short Plays 2015-2016
Applause Books - Best American Short Plays 2004-2005
Smith & Kraus - The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2016
Smith & Kraus - The Best Women's Stage Molologues 2019
Smith & Kraus - The Best Women's Stage Molologues 2016
Published Volumes
Audrey Cefaly - The Gulf
Audrey Cefaly - Maytag Virgin
Audrey Cefaly - Love is a Blue Tick Hound
Samuel French OFF OFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL PLAYS, 40TH SERIES
The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015
The Best American Short Plays 2004-2005
222 More Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under (Ultimate Audition)
The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2016
The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2016
The Best Women's Monologues 2016