Mahonri Stewart is two time ScreenCraft Finalist screenwriter and a Kennedy Center national award-winning playwright who writes probing historical dramas and soaring fantasy-adventures. He earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing (Screenwriting and Playwriting) from Arizona State University and has placed nine times as a finalist, semi-finalist, quarterfinalist, and an honorable mention in major, international screenplay contests (see awards section for full list). Most prominently, he is a Finalist in the ScreenCraft Feature Screenplay Competition and ScreenCraft's True Story and Public Domain Screenplay Competition, as well as a Finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition, all for his Revolutionary War era drama WRIGHTSBOROUGH. He is also a Semi-Finalist for ScreenCraft's TV Pilot Screenplay Competition for his Shakespearean prequel PROSPERO'S ISLAND and for ScreenCraft's Animation Screenplay Competition for his screenplay EXILES. Additionally, he recently received a rare, high score of an "8" from one of his Black List evaluations for WRIGHTSBOROUGH.

Mahonri has two screenplays currently optioned (JIMMY STEWART GOES TO HOLLYWOOD and EMPEROR WOLF) with Motion Foundry Studios and Park City Pictures. He has been featured on Coverfly's Red List for both WRIGHTSBOROUGH (Historical, top 1% Overall) and PROSPERO'S ISLAND (Fantasy and Fantasy TV, Top 7% Overall).

Two dozen of Mahonri's plays have been produced in both Europe and the United States and received numerous awards for his theatrical work, including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s National Playwriting Award (Second Place) and their National Selection Team Fellowship Award (Region VIII) for FAREWELL TO EDEN, Mahonri's debut play. FAREWELL TO EDEN will be having a 20th anniversary production in October 2023. 

Mahonri has also had extensive experience as an educator (both high school and university levels), a theatre director, a theater producer, a novelist, a poet, an anthology editor, and as a playwright-in-residence at the Noorda Regional Theater for Children and Youth.

Wrightsborough is a compelling, provocative story, telling the familiar story of the Revolutionary War through the perspective of characters we don't often see in popular narratives of the period."
- ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Screenplay Competition

Written at a professional level, this screenplay reflects the author's understanding of the importance of detailed research and character-driven storytelling in crafting a rich historical drama. The depth and quality of this work, which rival those of many established screenwriters, could attract the attention of industry representatives like managers or agents. The author should be immensely proud..."
- The Black List

An inventive and engaging pilot,  Prospero's Island does a terrific job of throwing us right into the action while setting up the supernatural world and the various characters who will be at the center of the series. Though the episode will be highly appealing to Shakespeare fans, the episode's story isn't dependent on knowledge of the source material as it takes the time to build an intricate mythology..."
- ScreenCraft TV Pilot Screenplay Competition

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Get In Touch

If you wish to contact Mahonri Stewart, send him an e-mail at prosperoarts@gmail.com