2017

The ZeBBie Awards are annual awards created by the WGI — named in honour of O. Z. Whitehead — to acknowledge the best script(s) written by Irish playwrights and screenwriters during the previous year.

2017 ZeBBie Award Winners

Best Television Script	Sharon Horgan for Divorce (Pilot ep.)
Best Radio Script	Kate Gilmore for The Wickedness of Oz
Best Theatre Script	Margaret McAuliffe for The Humours of Bandon
Best Feature Film Script	Colin Thornton & Darren Thornton for A Date for Mad Mary
Best Short Film Script	Natasha Waugh for Terminal
Best Game Script	Christopher Conlan for The Little Acre

2017 ZeBBie Awards Short-list

Best Television Script
	Sharon Horgan for Divorce (Pilot ep.)
	Graham Linehan & Sharon Horgan for Motherland (Pilot ep.)
	Stefanie Preissner for Can’t Cope Won’t Cope (Ep. 4)
Best Radio Script
	Lucy Caldwell for Dear Baby Mine (Ep. 1)
	Rory Duffy for Paulo in the Underworld
	Kate Gilmore for The Wickedness of Oz
Best Theatre Script
	David Ireland for Cyprus Avenue
	Margaret McAuliffe for The Humours of Bandon
	Laurence McKeown for Green & Blue
Best Feature Film Script
	Emma Donoghue for Room
	Peter Foott for The Young Offenders
	Colin Thornton & Darren Thornton for A Date for Mad Mary
Best Short Film Script
	Graham Cantwell for Lily
	Emmet Kirwan for Heartbreak
	Natasha Waugh for Terminal
Best Game Script
	Kevin Beimers for Wailing Heights
	Christopher Conlan for The Little Acre
	Barry Keating for Steep