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)
    THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983)
    BLIND WOMAN'S BLUFF - 3rd place (1984)
    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 
  • Script Tease of One-Act Play Awards:
    SLIDE RULES - First place (2012)
    MR. LEMONHEAD - First 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.
  • Commission from Dr. Howard Kurshenbaum to write RENNY'S STORY (2005-6)
  • 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  
  • 2006 DFAS National One-Act Playwriting Contest DAY OF ATONEMENT - cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE
  • THE BIGGEST SECRET #1 -  Second Place Winner in the 2011 Script Tease of One-Acts

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:
  • 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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