Harris Award
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award
This award was created in 1997 to honor the late Aurand Harris (1915-1996) for his lifetime dedication to all aspects of professional theatre for young audiences.
A panel of judges named by the NETC Executive Board will administer this award. Two cash prizes will be awarded: First Prize of $1000, and Second Prize of $500. The judges may withhold prizes if in their opinion no play merits the award.
A staged reading of the prize-winning scripts may be given, followed by critique and discussion.
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2017 Aurand Harris Winners
- Mulligrubs by Ilana Lydia
Previous Aurand Harris Winners
- 2017 Mulligrubs by Ilana Lydia
- 2016 Journeying Jack by Jack and David Novak
- 2015 No winners
- 2014 The Shahrazad Society by Ramon Esquivel
- 2013 Bloom by Andrew Morton (1st)
- 2013 Sing a Porpoise Home by Daniel A. Kelin II (2nd)
- 2012 Don and Wally - A Comedy of an Accidental Visit by Gordon LePage (1st)
- 2012 What We Lost Along the Way by Corrine Esme Glanville (2nd)
- 2011 The Transition of Doodle Pequeno by Gabriel Jason (1st)
- 2011 The South Overlook Oaks by Miriam Gonzales (2nd)
- 2010 The Tanzanite Princess by Laura Edmonson (1st)
- 2010 Gathering Blue by Matt Omasta (2nd)
- 2009 The Scrying Glass by Esme J. Sammons (1st)
- 2009 Puss 'N Boots by Steph DeFerie (2nd)
- 2008 Cully's Gold by Carol Korty and Susa Wuorinen
- 2007 By Candlelight by Claudia Haas (1st)
- 2007 Drama For Dionysus by Johanna Halperin, (2nd)
- 2006 Telling William Tell by Evan Guilford-Blake (1st)
- 2006 Yorkshire Fairytale by Thomas H. Diggs (2nd)
- 2005 The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Albert T. Viola (1st)
- 2005 Alice in War by Steven Bogart (2nd)
- 2004 No winners
- 2003 In the Garden of the Selfish Giant by Sandra Fenichel Asher
- 2002 The Life of Aesop by Kenneth Cavander
- 2001 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Mary and Andrew Arnault
- 2000 Riding the Wind by Carol Korty
- 1999 Searching for David's Heart by Cherie Bennett
- 1998 Devon's Hurt by Laurie Brooks Gollobin (1st)
- 1998 The Printer's Devil by David Paul Simon (2nd)
- 1997 Inauguration of Harris Award by Lowell Swortzell