Many student plays, originally developed at the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (MPW) have won awards through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), the primary juried University theatre competition in the United States. Several have been finalists in the play showcase at both the Region V American College Theatre Festival and the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. These include:

REGION V ACTF TEN MINUTE PLAY SHOWCASE

1999
Kate Sinnett's Obscenity (national finalist runner-up)
Jeff Carrillo's Party Favors (national finalist)

2000
Robert AuFrance's Horsefly Summer (national finalist runner-up)

2001
Kate Berneking Kogut's Assumption #1: Truckers (regional finalist, national finalist runner-up)

2002
Matt Lescher's Grease Me Up (Regional Finalist)
Kate Berneking Kogut's Assumption #1: Truckers was presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2002 New Play Development Workshop.
Kate Berneking Kogut's play Another Trail was a semi-finalist in the Mildred & Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition.

2003
Jamie Lindemann's West West Paper Route, National Finalist
Kate Sinnett's Obscenity was a finalist in the National Ten-Minute Play Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Kate Berneking Kogut's A New Perspective will be presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2003 New Play Development Workshop.
David White's Ain't Nuthin Quick 'n Easy (2003 Mark Twain Comedy Award) (David White has served as the Literary Manager for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and is currently the co-artistic director of WordBridge, Inc.)

2004
Erin McHugh's Film Explosure, Regional Finalist
Matthew Newlin's The Truth Game, Regional Finalist
David Kilpatrick, director for National Finalist (KU's "The Story of Izanagi and Izanami"
by Kristen Wirsig)
Joshua Hartnett, invited playwright to Region V 24-Hour Play Festival

2005
Mary Barile's The Hollow, Regional Finalist, National Finalist,
Presented at Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2004 New Play Development Workshop.
David Kilpatrick's I Promise, Regional Finalist

2006
Alex Yalen's Retribution (Regional 10-Minute Play Finalist)
Kevin McFillen's One-Act Play Forbidden Fruit (Regional Finalist, One Act Play Showcase)
Liz Fornango, invited playwright to Region V 24-Hour Play Festival
Adam Best, invited playwright to Region V 24-Hour Play Festival
Robert Wells, invited playwright to Region V 24-Hour Play Festival

2007
Justin Hofstetter's Twelfth Step (Regional Finalist, One Act Play Showcase)
Mary Barile's The Keening (Regional 10-Minute Play Finalist) (Also presented at Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2007 New Play Development Workshop.
Adam Boughton's Boys (Regional 10-Minute Play Finalist)

2008
Tearrance Chisholm's Niggerville (Regional John Cauble Short Play Finalist)
Fonzie Geary's Common Market (Regional 10-Minute Play Finalist)

REGION V ACTF INVITED PRODUCTIONS

Original full-length and one-act plays originally developed by MPW have been held and invited to be presented at the Region V American College Theatre Festival.

1999
Under Glass by Emily Daniels (invited)
Bottom of a Well by Ashley Rearden (invited)
Pinned by John Meissner (invited)
Riot Girl by Michael O'Donohoe (invited)
Crop Circle by Robert Aufrance

2000
Lindsey Alley's Like It Is (invited)

2001
Michael O'Donohoe's Nuke Me Gently (invited)
Kate's Sinnett's I Dream of Flying (held)

2002
Kate Berneking Kogut's Survival Dance (invited)

ORIGINAL NEW PLAY PRODUCTIONS
Many of the plays from the MPW have gone on to workshop or full production within the department. The following is a list of original plays first developed at the MPW that were later produced as part of MU subscription season.

1999
Prisoners of Passion: New Plays From the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (ONE-ACT FESTIVAL)
Under Glass by Emily Daniels
Bottom of A Well by Ashley Reardon
Pinned by John Meissner
Michael Kateman's Ruby Nelle (ONE-ACT MPW Workshop Production at Columbia College)
Michael O'Donohoe's Riot Girl (Full-length)

2000
Of Mice and Women: New Plays From the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (ONE-ACT FESTIVAL)
Mashing Peas by Laura Miller
Waiting For the Prequel by Suzanne Cook
Like It Is by Lindsey Alley
Men Dancing by David Crespy (Full-length)

2001
Fantasies With Fangs: New Plays from the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (ONE-ACT FESTIVAL)
Joyapolis by Marisa Wall
Nuke Me Gently by Michael O'Donohoe
I Punched Out Mike Tyson
I Dream of Flying by Kate Sinnett (Full-length)
Burning The Saint by Matt Hampton
Tek"ya by David Crespy(Full-length)

2002
Assumption: New Plays from the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL)
Assumption #1: Truckers by Kate Berneking Kogut
Adam and Winifred by Cynthia Durham
Forgiveness by Julia Browse
The Massacre of Innocence adapted by Eric Love
Assumption #2: Parents by Kate Berneking Kogut
Lily Glass by Kaitlin Sebben
The Pug-Nosed Boy by Brock Fisher
Flaming Trousers by James Rone
Survival Dance by Kate Berneking Kogut's (Full-length)

2003
Flying Solo and Changing Gears: New Plays from the Missouri Playwrights Workshop (ONE-ACT FESTIVAL)
The Robert Brown Hunter by David White
Captain S by Daren Froeschle
The Assist by Kate Berneking Kogut
Solo Performances by Sadie Chandler, Patricia Downey and Brock Fisher

2004
The Ugly Tree by David Eshelman
Erin McHugh's Film Explosure
Jamie Lindemann's West West Paper Route
Brett Merrill's Guiltless
The Jewish Dating Cycle by David Crespy

2005
Under the Shadow of the Sword by Adrianne Adderley
Witches Quorum by David Eshelman
Jukebox by Andréa Onstad

MIZZOU ON BROADWAY
Several of the plays first developed at the MPW have gone on to New York through the Mizzou on Broadway productions at the York Theatre in New York City.

2001
Michael Kateman's Ruby Nelle
Lindsay Alley's Like It Is

2002
David White's Trash
Kate Berneking Kogut's Assumption #1: Truckers and Assumption #2: Parents

OTHER AWARDS, PRODUCTIONS, PUBLICATIONS OF MPW PLAYS
David White's Ain't Nuthin Quick 'n Easy (2003 WordBridge Festival)

Plays by David Crespy, developed at the MPW include Violet Palimpsest produced at the ATHE New Play Development Workshop and published in ATHE's new play publication BIND THEM CONTINUALLY; Beshert (first of a trilogy of one-acts titled The Jewish Dating Cycle) published in Playwriting MasterClass, edited by Michael Wright, winner Panelist's Choice at Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theatre Conference; Perfect Hair published in Gary Garrison's Perfect Ten, produced in New York at the New York Theatre Source; David Crespy's Queen's Orphans produced at CAP 21 in New York City as part of a showcase of new work produced by the Foundation for the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers; David Crespy's Tek'ya workshop production, directed by Suzanne Burgoyne, funded by Summer Research Fellowship.

Several MU faculty have had their plays developed at MPW including David Crespy's Men Dancing, Tek'ya, The Jewish Dating Cycle, and Seven Were Hanged, Henry Sullivan (Calvary II and The Whore Tax of Nevada), Michael Kramer's Eight Hours, Gladys Swann's The Bathtub, Weldon Durham (adaptation of Treasure Island), and Ethan Bumas's The Sign Shop, William Yellow Robe's Sneaky and The Star Quilter, and Bert State's Oedipus, The Early Years, Theodore J. Flicker's Robert E. Lee, R.I.P. Scott Fosdick's Up and Down in America.

The MPW has developed more than 1000 plays over the past ten years and looks forward to a busy season of new plays by professional playwrights, students, faculty, staff, and community members in Columbia, Mo.