OIL CITY, Pa. (EYT) — Under the umbrella of local artist Matt Croyle’s organization One Fish Media, the Scribe Playwriting Competition has announced the two winning plays of the inaugural event.

The winner of the one-act competition is “The Opposite of Everything” by David Kalish from Clifton Park, New York. The play is a series of vignettes of an extremely dark situation written with such natural dialogue and polarizing use of comedy.

The winner of the full-length competition is “Shadows of Men” by Colin Crowley of Westport, Connecticut. The play is categorized as a character piece filled with historical figures and very eloquently written.

The winners of the competition will receive a live reading in front of an audience at the upcoming 2018 Oil Valley Film Festival and are awarded the newly founded prestigious Marsha Ann Croyle Awards for Achievement in Playwriting.

The two winning plays will be read and considered for a staged reading by the Athena Theatre Company in Manhattan, NYC.

Submissions to the playwriting competition are open to any previously unproduced play or musical.

About Matt Croyle

Oil City filmmaker Matt Croyle, a graduate of Oil City High School and Clarion University, is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter, director, graphic designer, disc jockey, and an award-nominated actor.

He has had the opportunity to work with stars such as Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy-award winner, Rue McClanahan, and directors like Greg Mottola, Kevin Smith, and Edward Zwick.

Croyle’s first feature-length film “Potential Inertia” was filmed in Venango County.

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