Calling all Guild members!  It’s your chance, as US chat show host Johnny Carson said about the Oscars;  “to put aside your petty jealousies …and take out your really big ones!”  Or, as we prefer;  it’s an invitation to big-up your fellow Irish writers who’ve been nominated, by casting your vote (next year it’ll be all about you!).

As always, you’ll be judging scripts across seven categories; Theatre, Television Drama, Continuing Drama, Short Film, Feature Film, Radio & Audio Drama and Animation – plenty of stellar summertime reading right there! 

How do I vote? 

Go to https://script.ie/zebbies and once you’ve signed in, you’ll find all the nominated scripts (see at-a-glance list below).

You’ve got 18 days (plenty of time) to read the scripts and cast your votes.  The voting window closes midnight Sunday 28^th July.

The Zebbies 2024 Awards ceremony will then take place on Tuesday, 3^rd September at The Sugar Club, hosted once again by the multi-hyphenate Tara Flynn!

The Nominees for the Zebbies 2024 Awards are; 

Best Short Film Script

Good Chips – Nell Hensey, Brigid Leahy

Wind and The Shadow – Kris Kelly 

Yellow Belt – Alan O’Gorman, Allyn Quigley

Best Animation Script

Lu & The Bally Bunch; “Grow Lines” – Shane Langan, Amy Stephenson

Forever Eleventeen – Sian Ní Mhuirí

Worry World – Hugh O’Conor 

Best Radio & Audio Drama Script

Carthanacht Chlíodhna – Dorothy Cotter, Cillian O’Donnachadha

High Spirits – Méabh de Brún

Antigone – Colin Murphy

Best Continuing Drama Script

Doctors [Series 24, Ep 91] – Caitriona Daly

Fair City [Series 34, Ep 114] – Maria Hickey

Ros na Rún [Sraith 28, Mír 4] – Eoin MacDiarmada

Best Theatre Script

Quake – Janet Moran

The United States vs Ulysses – Colin Murphy

Gold in the Water – Shane O’Reilly, Paul Curley, Denis Clohessy

Best TV Drama Script

Falling for The Life of Alex Whelan – Nell Hensey

Obituary [Series 1, Ep 1] – Ray Lawlor

Smother [Series 3, Ep 5] – Nessa Wrafter

Best Feature Film Script

Ann – Ciaran Creagh

Lies We Tell – Elisabeth Gooch

Baltimore – Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor