In 2019, Mitch Tawhi Thomas became the first playwright to win an Adam NZ Play award twice, the first for Hui in 2012 and then for Pakaru (in 2019).
The 53rd Victim, and Sketch by Kate Morris were also selected for rehearsed public readings as part of the Aotearoa Playwrights Conference New Writing / New Producing Forum at the Auckland Festival.
Runners-up: Dawn Cheong for Remnants of the Silk Maker's Ghost and Philip Braithwaite for White City.
Highly Commended: Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen for The Mooncake and the Kumara and Sam Brooks for Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys.
Best Play by a Māori Playwright: Albert Belz for Cradle Song and Jason Te Mete for Little Black Bitch.
Dean Parker Award: Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken for Aliens and Anorexia adapted from the book by Chris Kraus.
[10] 2010: Denis Edwards, Ella West, Greg McGee, Hannah McKie, Justin Eade, Lorae Parry & Pinky Agnew, Mike Hudson, and Paul Baker.
[2] 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.
[2] 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.
[2] 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.
[2] 2015: Aroha Awarau, Officer 27; Sam Brooks, Spitting it Out; Kip Chapman, Hudson and Halls Live!
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!
[2] 2016: Carl Bland, Te Pō; Philip Braithwaite, The Atom Room; Kip Chapman, Lucky; Angie Farrow, The Politician's Wife; Miria George, The Vultures; Ralph McCubbin Howell, The Devil's Half Acre; Emma Kinane, Anahera; Tom McCrory, Smiley; Joe Musaphia, A Love Like Ours; Olga Nikora, Tumanāko; Dean Parker, Ports of Auckland; Lorae Parry, Scarlet & Gold; Vivienne Plumb, The Property Developer; Elspeth Sandys, Rogues and Vagabonds; Cian Elyse White, Te Puhi.
[2] 2017: Geoff Allen, The Taiaha and the Sabre; Carl Bland, Spirit House; Nick Brown and the cast, Paratiho; Kathryn Burnett, The Caravan; Noa Campbell, Teka or Tika; Richard De Luca, Death of a Dream; Adam Goodall, The Go-Between; Alex Lodge, Sing to Me; Alex Lodge and Cherie Jacobson, Modern Girls in Bed; Miriama McDowell, Rob Mokaraka and Jason Te Kare, Cellfish; Greg McGee, Flame; Joe Musaphia, The Gearbox; Dean Parker, Before the Next Teardrop Falls; Julianne Parkinson, The Rookie; Finnius Teppett, Cannibal.
[2] 2018: Claire Ahuriri-Dunning, Dracula; Aroha Awarau, Provocation; Sam Brooks, Turn Off the Lights and Twenty Eight Millimetres; James Cain, Movers; Emily Duncan, In Our Shoes; Chye-Ling Huang, Orientation; Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan, Welcome to the Murder House; Vela Manusaute, Tropical Lovebirds; Arthur Meek, Land of the Moa; Joe Musaphia, Chutzpah; Dean Parker, Tutankhamun; Bruce Clyde Thomson, Stuck Pigs; James van Dyk, The Lazarus Lottery and Roy Ward, The Bright Side of my Condition.
[2] 2019: Carl Bland, Mr Red Light; Kieran Craft, Four Nights in the Green Barrow Pub; Emily Duncan, Le Sujet Parle; Rose Kirkup, Unflattering Smock; Rene Le Bas, Lloyd Dobler is Dead; Rachel Lowe, You Didn't Die, Stanley Makuwe, Black Lover; Olga Nikora, In Search of Freedom; Jenny Pattrick, Hope; Frances Steinberg, Routine Magic; Craig Thaine, Martha Mee.
[2] 2020: George Arthur, A Relatively Uneventful Evening; Ralph McCubbin Howell, Lysander's Aunty; Chye-Ling Huang, Black Tree Bridge; Hone Kouka, On Springfield Road; Olga Nikora, a short guide to staying alive; Regan Taylor, Mate; Craig Thaine, Rupture.
by Anders Falstie-Jensen, The Eternal by Angie Farrow, Eleanor Crane by Alex MacDonald, Sons of Vao by Vela Manusaute, Unbelievable by Joe Musaphia, Cuckoo by Olga Nikora, The White Queen by Allen O’Leary, Pork and Poll Taxes by Talia Pua, Homemade Takeaways by Ben Wilson, The Haka Party Incident by Katie Wolfe[11] 2022: Leaning Left, The Perfect Image and White Wedding by Sam Brooks, Blood Harmony by William Duignan, The Shit Kid by Sarah Harpur, Losing Face by Nathan Joe, How to Throw a Chinese Funeral by Jill Kwan, Cycles by Lori Leigh, The Grass is Singing by Stanley Makuwe adapted from the book by Doris Lessing, The Sun and the Wind by Tainui Tukiwaho 2023: Lads on the Island by Sam Brooks, Nicola Cheeseman is Back by Kathryn Burnett, The Valentina by Anders Falstie-Jensen, Dimensions in Black by Keagan Carr Fransch, Pōhutukawa by Maraea Rakuraku, New Gold Mountain Woman by Cassandra Tse, The Best of Tūhoe by Tainui Tukiwaho.
2024: The Odyssey by Dan Bain, The Boy Trip by Sam Brooks, This Is My Story of Us by Sam Brooks, Trojan Horse by James Cain, We’ll Always Have Paris by Paul Kalburgi, Kaveinga by Teherenui Koteka, The Ants by Alex MacDonald, Breakdown by Craig Thaine, Matenui by Tawhi Thomas, Before We Slip Beneath the Sea by Cassandra Tse.