Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

Finalist - Stowe Story Labs
Semi-finalist - Princess Grace (twice), BAPF Playwrights Foundation, Garry Marshall

FULL LENGTH 97 pgs - Someday, the ‘madrina’ of 19th century Santa Fe would like to die a good Catholic death and be buried in her beloved church, La Parrochia. But Death is coming sooner than she thinks and the arrival of a needy Protestant, a fortune in gold, and the invasion of the American Army complicate her perfect exit into Purgatory. In order to save her family from ruin and earn her way into Heaven, the gambler must orchestrate a final, high-stakes card game in which all is both lost and won.

Winner - Southern Playwrights Competition
Semi-Finalist - O'Neill

FULL LENGTH 65 pgs - In 1959, a New York reporter is sent deep into Southern Appalachia to cover the gruesome ax murders of two men. What she finds is a publishing jackpot - a confessed killer with cover girl appeal. An escalating battle for control emerges when the women’s dual pursuit of illicit wealth and lurid public adoration brings out the Devil in them both.

Finalist - BAPF Playwrights Foundation

FULL LENGTH 100 pgs - When a professor withdraws to a small-town boarding house to finish her manuscript on the ‘model American town,’ she becomes involved in her student’s soured romance with an abusive politician. Finding herself aligned with the ‘poison squad’, she helps launch a whisper campaign to end the future congressman’s harassment and ultimately his career. But she underestimates how far the corrupt politician will go to protect his empire, and learns how far she will be pushed to save herself.

FULL LENGTH 59 pgs - Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper’s wife? Bunny Maybrick began life in an opulent Alabama mansion and is ending it in a squalid shack full of cats in rural Connecticut. She’s already given away most of her meager belongings, but the heavy contents of her soul are harder to leave behind. That is, until a local prep school boy, Theo Voss, becomes an accomplice in Bunny’s meandering, mad, death-bed confession – one that includes adultery, arsenic addiction, and murder.

FULL LENGTH 84 pgs (draft seeking workshop) - With her father’s name as her only capital, Maria Rasputin’s sole escape from poverty is performing in the circus. When a long-lost childhood friend returns from the dead, it fires Maria’s dream of returning to the imperial court and her privileged life in Tsarist Russia. But false hope fueled by an unsated longing for the past leads to the reunion’s unraveling, proving that buying lies can be an expensive purchase.

FULL LENGTH 74 pgs (seeking workshop) - A wayward disciple returns to keep a vigil with the corpse of the prophet he once betrayed. But he’s confronted by the charlatan’s most zealous supporter, who uses the former follower’s own transgressions to undermine his search for the truth. What does it cost the soul to lie if it comforts the faithful?

10 MINUTE - A mourning pet owner gathers her friends for a séance, but the response from the spiritual realm is upended by the digital world.

10 MINUTE - Pam ordered two yards of satin to finish a Holy Communion dress, but a typo results in her getting a six foot tall Satan instead.

10 MINUTE - With their pious neighbor's precious parrot dead and their cat the prime suspect, three sisters are about to engage in the mother of all cover-ups.

10 MINUTE - Jane's socks are missing, and she needs the help of "Darrell", a sock puppet investigator, to find them. But "Darrell" has issues. As it turns out, so does Jane.

10 MINUTE - A "vampire" computer virus unleashes the Dead from Facebook.

10 MINUTE - The old ‘Lady Addington’ is being retired from the show and replaced by the new (and younger) ‘Lady Addington,’ but not before the more experienced diva teaches the upstart actress a few brutal, backstage, battlefield tactics.

10 MINUTE - The loss of a key actor in a community production of Hamlet presents the opportunity of a lifetime for the theatre’s longtime janitor whose zealous enthusiasm gives all new meaning to the expression “take the stage!”

10 MINUTE - When Jim, an unemployed loser, gets a wrong number call meant for the suicide hotline, he tries to help in all the wrong ways.

10 MINUTES - The friendly HOA president is looking forward to spring, the pandemic's end, and Game Day! But his neighbor, an unrepentant master gardener, needs just a few minutes of his time to help her with some simple tasks in the garden. In a matter of minutes, the president finds himself on the other side of the law when the yard chores turn hilariously criminal.

MONOLOGUE - A. Cat provides a tutorial on this unpleasant but often necessary task.

MONOLOGUE - Steeped in religion and the supernatural, an Appalachian woman explains death, dying, and damnation through a pivotal childhood memory.