Stephen Karam  - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A play by this author begins with an excerpt of a real-life chat log between an 18-year-old boy and a former mayor of Spokane, Washington, using the handle “theright-biguy.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this American playwright who depicted three teenagers’ plan to expose their predatory teacher in Speech and Debate. This author won a Tony Award for Best Play in 2016 for The Humans.

ANSWER: Stephen Karam (“CARE-um”)

[10m] In Speech and Debate, the precocious Diwata performs a one-woman musical centered on a maid from this play. That character gives a pregnant woman a “poppet” stuck with a needle in this play.

ANSWER: The Crucible (by Arthur Miller)

[10e] In 2016, Karam produced a semi-translated vernacular adaptation of a play by this author. Christopher Durang’s play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike riffs on Uncle Vanya and other plays by this Russian author.

ANSWER: Anton Chekhov

<HG, American Literature>

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Claremont B	UCSD	0	10	10	20
UCLA	UC Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida State A	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Valencia A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Kenyon	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Case Western A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Case Western B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	Northwestern B	0	0	0	0
Iowa	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UW B	0	10	10	20
UBC	UW A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	TAMU	0	10	10	20
ASU	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	LSE	0	0	10	10
Sheffield	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Durham	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Manchester	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	10	20
RIT A	ESF A	0	10	10	20