Complex sentence: The play was the finalist in the Maxim Mazumder New Play Competition, a finalist in the Ashland New Plays Festival, and a finalist in The Hudson Valley Writers' Center New Play Reading Series.
Split into simpler sentences: The play was the finalist in the Maxim Mazumder New Play Competition, and also a finalist in the Ashland New Plays Festival. Its third appearance as a finalist came in The Hudson Valley Writers' Center New Play Reading Series.