WELCOME PLAYWRIGHTS!There’s never been a better time to participate in KCACTF’S National Playwriting Program. There are a record number of wonderful opportunities available exclusively for college and university students waiting for you to take advantage. Please check them out, and submit your work. This webpage attempts to make the submission process as simple as possible, but there is a lot of information here. Please follow the links listed below, and read through them all carefully. If after going through all the information you still have questions, do not hesitate to contact me. There is no such thing as a stupid question. Believe me, I know this process can seem confusing at times, but part of my job is to help you navigate through any confusion in order to get your work out there and eligible for consideration. This year for the regional festival we will be choosing 6 ten minute plays, and four one-act plays (an increase from previous years). Each of these plays will be cast, rehearsed, and given readings at the festival. Two plays from each category will be chosen as national semi-finalists. This new group will then be held for consideration as finalists for the reading awards given out at the national festival held in Washington DC in April. Very Important: If your play is chosen to be read at the regional festival, you must be able to attend the entire festival week. Your active participation in the process is crucial. If you are unable to attend, your play will be taken out of consideration, and an alternate substituted. Don’t neglect to check out all of the national reading awards. These awards are given to both full length and one act plays. Oftentimes, a single play qualifies for more than one award. Read the guidelines for each to see if your play qualifies. Congratulations to all the 2009 national award recipients from Region One given out at the Kennedy Center this past April:
The WORDbridge Fellowship
And most especially, congratulations to Kate Snodgrass of Boston University, this year’s recipient of the Milan Stitt Award for Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting. New plays are the lifeblood of the theatre, and it is exciting to be part of an organization that values your work so highly. Don’t let these opportunities pass you by. Start writing, keep writing, keep re-writing, and submit your work to the festival. I can’t wait to see and hear what’s on your mind. Robert Boles LinksGENERAL RULES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS
All plays should be submitted electronically in a WORD or PDF format. No snail mail submissions accepted. Please fill out the appropriate cover sheet and submit it with each entered play. Use the cover sheet form provided for each award category. All scripts must be in the Samuel French format. A sample of the format can be found on the national website: www.kcactf.org The deadline for all submissions is November 1 of each year. Plays submitted after the deadlines will not be considered for that year’s festival. Please read the rules and guidelines carefully for each award. To be eligible for any student playwriting award, an undergraduate must carry a minimum of 6 semester hours (or equivalent quarter hours), while a graduate must carry 3 semester hours (or equivalent quarter hours). Undergraduate, graduate, and continuing part-time student playwrights must be matriculating, degree-seeking students. It is expected that work on the new play will have begun during the period the student is so enrolled. Students in on-line courses may submit ten-minute and one-act plays within the region they reside, providing they confirm that they carry the required 6 semester hours of credit when the play was written. They must affirm that the school where they take the on-line course participates on an associate or participating entry level. If a school has any associate or participating entry, the school may enter as many original scripts for reading awards as it wishes, but no more than two per student per category. A “category” means a maximum of two 10-minute plays, two one-act plays, and two full-length plays allowed per student – a total of six in all. The exceptions to the above rules are for the David Mark Cohen Award and The National Student Playwriting Award. To qualify, each must have received full productions, and be registered as Participating Productions with the festival. The remainder of the awards are considered “reading awards”. In addition, each new play registered as a Participating production will be considered for regional and national festival presentation. Please note that any one play may qualify for more than one award. Please read through all the award qualifications to see if your play can be submitted. As with any portion of this process, if there are questions please contact the Playwriting Chair for Region One. A new play or musical may be a collaboration, adaptation, company-written play, or a play based on factual materials but may not be a translation. To be eligible, adaptations from other works must include written permission for works under copyright and must involve substantial changes in form and/or expression. A full-length play is defined as either one major work or two or more shorter works written by the same playwright, based on a single theme, or encompassed within a unifying framework. In all cases, the entry must provide a full evening of theater-approximately one and one-half hours or longer, including intermissions. If the play has been produced, the production must be presented during the period of the student’s enrollment, or within two years after his or her enrollment ends. Please check over all the information offered on the national website. Once on the home page, click the “Students” link at the bottom of the page, then click the “Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards” link on the left hand side of the page. NATIONAL TEN MINUTE PLAY AWARD Submission deadline is November 1 of each year. All plays are submitted to the Regional Playwriting Chair only. Please include with your submission the official cover sheet for ten minute plays. Regional Playwriting Chair’s email address: RBoles@newhaven.edu Ten Minute Plays are no more than 10 minutes long. Please refer to Gary Garrison’s guidelines on the national website: www.kcactf.org It contains very good advice. The submitted plays will be read by at least two readers from a different region. The top six choices will be invited to Region I’s Festival at the University of New Hampshire, January 26-31, 2010. The playwright must be able to attend the festival or your play will be disqualified. Do not submit your play unless you are able to attend. At the festival, playwrights will work with assigned directors on a public reading of their work. All casting and rehearsing of the reading will happen during the festival. Two festival respondents will respond to your play at the festival. Two plays (out of the six) will be chosen at the regional festival to be National Semi-Finalists. Those two plays will then be held in consideration for the National Festival in Washington DC, April 12 – 18, 2010 as National Finalists. Submission deadline is November 1 of each year. All plays are to be submitted to the Regional Playwriting Chair and to the National Office. Please include with your submission the official cover sheet for One Act Plays. Regional Playwriting Chair’s email address: RBoles@newhaven.edu A short play is defined as a play of one act without intermission that, within itself, does not constitute a full evening of theatre; the running time of a one-act play is under 60 minutes, and when typed in standard format , a one-act play is approximately 15-45 (or so) pages in length. Each entry must have had at least a staged reading at the student’s college or university to be eligible. If the student’s school has any other associate or participating productions registered, the student is free to submit his or her play. If the school has no registered productions, the student’s play would be required to register as an associate or participating production. The submitted plays will be read by at least two readers from a different region. Two or more of the top choices will be invited to the Region I Festival at the University of New Hampshire, January 26-31, 2010. The playwright must be able to attend the festival or your play will be disqualified. Do not submit your play unless you are able to attend. At the festival, playwrights will work with assigned directors on a public reading of their work. All casting and rehearsing of the reading will happen during the festival. Two festival respondents will respond to your play at the festival. Two plays will be chosen to be National Semi-Finalists from the regional festival. Those two plays will then be held in consideration for the national festival in Washington DC, April 12-18, 2010 as National Finalists. DAVID MARK COHEN AWARD Submission deadline is November 1 of each year. The play or musical may be student written or written by a working playwright and/or faculty member. All student-written plays are to be submitted both to the Regional PlaywritingChair and to the National Office. All non-student plays should be submitted to the Regional Chair only. Please include with your submission the official cover sheet for Full Length Plays. Regional Playwriting Chair’s email address: RBoles@newhaven.edu To be eligible, the submitted work must have been fully produced (not a staged reading) at the sponsoring school, and be registered as a participating production with the festival. The play or musical will be read by at least two readers from Region One. The top two choices will be named the Region’s National Semi-Finalists at the University of New Hampshire, January 26-31, 2010. Their work will be held in consideration for the national festival in Washington DC, April 12-18, 2010 as National Finalists. MICHAEL KANIN PLAYWRITING AWARDS Below is a quick guide to all of the various awards. Both Full Length plays and One Acts are eligible. Ten Minute Plays are not eligible for these awards. For more detailed descriptions of each award, please visit the national website: www.kcactf.org. NATIONAL STUDENT PLAYWRITING AWARD KCACTF MUSICAL THEATRE AWARD LORRAINE HANSBERRY PLAYWRITING AWARD PAULA VOGEL AWARD IN PLAYWRITING MARK TWAIN COMEDY PLAYWRITING AWARD JEAN KENNEDY SMITH PLAYWRITING AWARD ROSA PARKS PLAYWRITING AWARD NATIONAL SCIENCE PLAYWRITING AWARD QUEST FOR PEACE AWARD LATINA/LATINO PLAYWRITING AWARD KCACTF THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES AWARD KEN LUDWIG PLAYWRITING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Eligibility:
Application Process: The prize will be awarded based on a playwright’s body of work. As evidence of that body of work, the writer should submit:
Evaluation Procedures:
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