Burn Her. 2018: Shane Bosher for Everything After. Best Play by a Māori Playwright: Albert Belz for Cradle Song and Jason Te Mete for Little Black Bitch. Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright: Suli Moa for Tales of A Princess. Best Play by a Woman Playwright: Angie Farrow for Before the Birds. 2019: Mitch Tawhi Thomas for Pakaru. Runner Up: Nancy Brunning for Taniwha Woman. Highly Commended: Peter Croft for Penalty. Best Play by a Māori Playwright: Mitch Tawhi Thomas for Pakaru. Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright: Benny Marama for thursdays.child. Best Play by a Woman Playwright: Nancy Brunning for Taniwha Woman 2020: Jess Sayer for This Particular Room. Runner Up: Siobhan Rosenthal for Blocked. Best Play by a Māori Playwright: Sarah Browne for Second to God. Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright: Tanya Muagututi'a for Scholars. Best Play by a Woman Playwright: Jess Sayer for This Particular Room. McNaughton South Island Play Award: Carl Nixon for An Unlikely Season Adam NZ Play Award shortlists 2010: Denis Edwards, Ella West, Greg McGee, Hannah McKie, Justin Eade, Lorae Parry & Pinky Agnew, Mike Hudson, and Paul Baker. 2011: Dan Cleary, Jennifer Compton, and Whiti Hereaka. 2012: Jess Sayer, Beautiful Coincidences; Joe Musaphia, The Train Set; ; Ken Duncum, Janet & John; ; Natasha Maharaj, Dirty Children; Patrick Evans, Gifted; Phillip Braithwaite, Honest to God; ; and Whiti Hereaka, Raw Men. 2013: Sam Brooks, And I Was Like; Michael Galvin, Give Up; Joseph Harper, atlas/mountains/dead butterflies; Alice Miller, Native Affairs; Olga Nikora, Stroika; and Bruce Clyde Thomson, Ayn Rand Has Her Way. 2014: Philip Braithwaite, Lingua Franca; Rachel Callinan, Pakehell; Justin Eade, Central Otago Man; Renee Liang, The Quiet Room; Stanley Makuwe, Footprints on Ika's Heart; Alice Miller, Three Sisters; Andrew Parker, Occupy: The Road to Joy; and Arun Subramaniam, A Moment or Two. 2015: Aroha Awarau, Officer 27; Sam Brooks, Spitting it Out; Kip Chapman, Hudson and Halls Live!; Denis Edwards, Service to Love; Pip Hall, Squeak, Squeak – Tales of the White Mouse; Nathan Joe, Who is Sada Abe? Part One: Bullfight of Love; Riwia Mackenzie-Brown, The Violet and the Huia Feather; Gavin McGibbon, Congregation; Ken Mizusawa, Why do we do what we do?; James Nokise, The Last Part; Robyn Paterson, The World's First Fight; April Phillips, Charlotte Badger: Miscreant, Mother, Mutineer!; John Smythe, Where There's a Will; and Aroha White, 2080. 2016: Carl Bland, Te Pō; Philip Braithwaite,