🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations First Prize for My Play! June 1, 2025 / June 1, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I’m thrilled to share that my play The Perilous Adventures of Mother Goose won First Prize in the Yury Olesha Literary Competition! It’s a huge honor—and a very cool one at that! Read more »
🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations First Place in Drama at the 2024 North American Writers Union International Competition February 20, 2025 / June 1, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I’m thrilled to share that my story play, My Favorite Tortoise, has won first place in the Drama category at the 2024 North American Writers Union International Competition. This piece is especially meaningful to me, and I’m very happy for this recognition. Read more »
The Poet and the Cats A phantasmagoric drama in which human beings and animals live and act on an equal footing. As the story develops, the cats are trying to establish justice when humans fail to do so. Read more »
My Favourite Tortoise Every living creature longs for love, even an a 150-year-old elephant tortoise from the Galapagos Islands. Read more »
The Dangerous Adventures of Mother Goose There are two worlds in the play: one is the world of goodness, songs, poems, jokes, games and smiles belonging to the heroes of Edward Lear's poems and Mother Goose. The other world is a complete opposite.... Read more »
🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations “The Poet and The Cats” Makes the Long List of the Badenweiler Festival Competition February 18, 2018 / February 18, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I’m pleased to share that my play, The Poet and The Cats, was included in the long list of the Badenweiler Festival Competition in 2018. This contest celebrates the work of Russian-speaking playwrights abroad, and I’m honored to have my play recognized among such talented writers. Thank you to the organizers and judges for this acknowledgment! Read more »
🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations Excited to Be Nominated for ‘Best Play for Children’ February 18, 2018 / February 18, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I’m thrilled to share that my play, My Favorite Tortoise, has been nominated for Best Play for Children at the International Playwright Competition of the Union of Russian Writers. Read more »
🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations Honored to be included on the list of best plays of the year February 6, 2017 / February 18, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I’m thrilled to share that my work, “Paris, November 13, 2025”, was included in the list of the best plays of the year 2017 of the ZAVLIT agency. Read more »
🎭 Play 🏆 Awards and Nominations Finalist in International Short-Play Writing Contest in Spain February 18, 2015 / February 18, 2025 by Irena Scalerica I am honored to announce that my short play, Paris, November 13, 2015, is a finalist in the International Short-Play Writing Contest in Spain. This piece is dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the November 13, 2015, Paris terrorist attacks. Read more »