Cary Pepper

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Cary Pepper is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His plays have been produced throughout the United States and internationally. Among his one-act plays, Small Things won the Robert R. Lehan Playwriting Award and the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival one-act play contest in 2006. It has also been airing on NPR as part of their Playing on Air series. Stealing Melissa won the Doc Jim Martin Playwright Competition, The Walrus Said won the Religious Arts Guild Playwriting Competition, and Party Favors won the Goshen College Peace Play Contest in 2016. Among his full-length plays, How It Works was performed as a staged reading at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City, was a finalist at Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest in 2010, and won the Ashland New Plays Festival in 2012. Cufflinked was a semifinalist in the 2014 Ashland New Plays Festival, And Jonah Rose Up was a semifinalist in the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, and The Maltese Frenchman was a finalist for the National Play Award.