Awards

  • Janet S. Tiger's plays have won awards five times in the DFAS* National One-Act Playwriting Contest (*Dubuque Fine Arts Society in Dubuque, Iowa- the oldest one-act contest in the United States)
    THE WAITING ROOM - 2nd place (1982) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE
    THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE
    BLIND WOMAN'S BLUFF - 3rd place (1984) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE
    SAVE A PLACE FOR ME - Honorable Mention (1989)
    CURSE OF THE DUCHESS-  2nd place (1990) was produced and televised on Iowa Public Access Cable Channel                               DAY OF ATONEMENT -  (2006)  cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE

  • Script Tease of One-Act Play Awards:                                                         (all cash awards and readings)                                              LINE - First place (2020)                                                                        DAY JOB - First place (2016)                                                           NEWEST OLDEST  2nd Place  (2017)                                                                NOT SO FAST - Honorable Mention (2014)​                                                 SLIDE RULES - First place (2012)                                                         BIGGEST SECRET #1 -Second place (2011)                           BIGGEST SECRET #2 - Honorable Mention (2011)                     MR. LEMONHEAD - First place (2010)                                    CRIME -3rd place -      (2010)                                                                                  
  • THE AFFIDAVIT - 2nd Place, 5-Minute Play Festival (2013)
  • THE THIRD PARTY, Gaslamp Quarter Theater, San Diego, CA  
  • Best New Play Nominee, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle (1984)
  • First award - THE WAITING ROOM, Gassner Memorial Playwriting Competition -  one-act
    Eugene O'Neill
    Lamb's Players
  • COMBO-NEA GRANT to finish TRANSFUSION, OH, SUSANNAH and DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME
  • Commission from Aaronson Foundation to write SAVE A PLACE FOR ME
  • Commission from the Kerr Foundation to write THE THIRD PARTY
  • Commission from the Kallis Foundation to write K.I.S.S.
  • Chosen as Swedenborg Hall's Playwright-in-Residence for (2006-8) and received a commission to complete THE END OF DEATH (The Future Ain't What it Used to Be!) which premiered in August 2007  
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Congratulations to...

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Derrick C. Cooper Jr. is a 2007 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts. One of only four high school theater students in the nation to receive the honor, Cooper traveled to Washington D.C. where he received a gold medallion from the President and performed several monologues, including 'BLOOD' from Janet S. Tiger's TRANSFUSION at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Congratulations Derrick--we look forward to hearing more good things from you!
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Myah Lisa Martinson

The following women used the THE TOWEL LADY to win contests, awards, and admissions:
            2021 - Fort Dodge Senior High performers received             Division I ratings at State:
​  Gracie Miller — Acting — “The Towel Lady”
  • In 2010, Myah Lisa Martinson's performance won her $500 (above)
  • Maree Cole in Australia was voted one of the Storm the Stage Finalists (2007) 
  • Kendra M. used monologue as her audition piece and was accepted into the presitigious in La Scuola Teatro de Matavo in Italy
Dayne Lathrop performed FINALE for the State TFA competition in Texas - winning 3rd Place (check him out on Youtube) and  Reuben Jacobson came in second place in the Dramatic Interpretation section of the local Forensics tournament in Washington, D.C.

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