Pioneer Drama Service of Denver, CO is proud to announce Roseville resident Michelle Raskey as the winner of the 2017 Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest. Raskey won this year’s national award for her one act play If the Shoe Fits, Buy It!

Currently, Raskey serves as the Executive Director of Roseville Theatre Arts Academy, an award-winning non-profit community theatre dedicated to education and enrichment through the performing arts. Raskey has been involved in theatre for the last 25 years, working with and teaching students of all ages. Her passion is the Treehouse Players, the fractured fairytale portion of RTAA, which annually introduces up to 20,000 students to the excitement of live theatre.

If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! was originally produced by Treehouse Players in 2014 and is a silly fairy tale home shopping network parody that has Cinderella as the fast-talking sales dynamo of the Castle Shopping Network. The play was selected as the winner from hundreds of entries and includes a prize of publication with a $1000 royalty advance. Pioneer Drama Service is one of the largest full-service play publishing companies in the nation and publishes plays and musicals for the amateur stage, including schools, community theatres, and children’s theatres.

Pioneer Drama Service seeks quality manuscripts through the annual Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest. Since 1991, the company has held this contest annually in memory of its founder in order to encourage the development of quality theatrical material for educational and community theater.