Her play '' Everything is Wonderful '' premiered at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown , West Virginia in July 2017 . In it , an Amish family who loses two children in a car accident invites the driver into their home . The play was inspired by Werner Herzog 's documentary '' From One Second to the Next , '' which tells the real-life story of an Amish family affected by a similar accident . Writing about a 2019 production , reviewer Tina Collins calls the play " a thoughtful study of Amish life that slowly reveals the underlying complexity that characterizes the human condition as a whole . " '' Even Longer and Farther Away '' premiered at the New Colony at the Den Theatre in Chicago in 2016 . In it , Elliot gets snowed in at a small village on the Appalachian Trail . There he discovers part of his family 's history among strangers who seem to know a lot about him and his family . Reviewer Chad Bay called it " one part standard-procedure coming-of-age story and one part mystical folklore . " Marcantel 's play '' Airness '' debuted at the 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville . The play tells the story of a woman who enters her first air guitar competition , and was inspired in part by a former boyfriend of Marcantel 's . The play The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel acclaimed it as the best full-length play of the Humana festival . It won the American Theatre Critics Association 's M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award in 2018 ; he award recognizes an emerging playwright , and carries as $ 1000 prize
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Chelsea Marcantel