The Heideman Award is given each year to the winner of the National Ten-Minute Play Contest, a competition hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville.[1] The $1,000 cash prize award was established in 1979 by Louisville, Kentucky native Ted Heideman.[2]
Past winners
2013 Halfway by Emily Schwend
2012 The Ballad of 423 and 424 by Nicholas C. Pappas
2011 Compatible by Ana Li, Waterbabies by Adam LeFevre
2010 The Famished by Max Posner,
The Last Hat, a Tragedy by Kyle John Schmidt
Lobster Boy by Dan Dietz
2007 I am not Batman by Marco Ramirez
2004 Johannes, Pyotr & Marge by Jeffrey Essmann, Picnic (pic-nic): vi by Brendan Healy
2003 Fit for Feet by Jordan Harrison, Trash Anthem by Dan Dietz
2000 The Office by Kate Hoffower, Creep by James Christy,[3]
1999 Night Visits by Simon Fill
1998 The Blue Room by Courtney Baron, Dancing With A Devil by Brooke Berman, Forty Minute Finish by Jerome Hairston, Mpls., St. Paul by Julia Jordan, Drive Angry by Matt Pelfrey, Labor Day by Sheri Wilner, Just Be Frank by Caroline Williams