SCREENPLAY AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
Winner, Rhodium Award Religion Faith International Film Festival (RFIFF) Fall 2025
Winner Best Thriller Script New York International Film Awards 2024
Winner WorldFest-Houston International Festival 2024
Winner Miami Women Film Fest 2024
Angels Twice Descending
REVIEWS
FOR THE STAGE PLAY
“Angels Twice Descending, by Cecile Callan, winner of the 1993 Women in Theatre Playwriting Award, demonstrates one way to do a play perfectly: strong writing that reflects a major moral dilemma…”
VARIETY
“Playwright Cecile Callan has crafted a jewel within the traditional genre of a two-act play, complete with suspenseful action, distinctive characters, clear relationships, and intense dialogue with humor and conflict. Callan expertly weaves the issues of freedom, morality, and personal choice through the impassioned language of each character, amid personal courage and individual fears.”
DRAMA LOGUE
Cecile Callan’s absorbing morality play has a pro-choice bias, but she also sympathizes with Christians led astray by their rigid beliefs.”
LA WEEKLY
“Cecile Callan’s well-crafted and thought-provoking drama elegantly and subtly cuts right to the heart of a variety of intriguing themes and issues. Naturally, the play offers a powerful debate about the right to life versus the right to choice—but it’s also an ingenious, unpredictable tragedy in its own right, full of powerful conflicts and surprisingly subtle emotional turns.”
LOS ANGELES READER
“Cecile Callan’s script is an award-winner—there isn’t sharper, funnier or more poignant dialogue out there today.”
THEATER/LA
FOR THE SCREENPLAY
"Angels Twice Descending" is a gripping, timely, and deeply felt drama. It pulls the audience into intimate ethical debates, never losing sight of the humanity on both sides. The writing is visceral and visual, with dialogue and pacing that keep readers emotionally invested and intellectually challenged. This is the kind of script you remember—and discuss—long after THE END.”
Rhodium Award Winner Fall 2025 RFIFF