Student Playwrights
Ten-Minute Play Festival
6 X 10s
KCACTF Region I, 2007
Playwrights:
Submissions are being accepted for the annual KCACTF Region I
Ten-Minute Play Festival (6X10s). Five new ten-minute plays will
be staged at the Region I KCACTF Festival in January 2009. During
the Festival you will meet your director, audition and cast actors,
rehearse your play, collaborate with your designer, and see your
play performed, all in the course of the five-day Festival.
GUIDELINES
- Plays can be no more than 10 pages in length (approximately
10 minutes).* Character names should be centered, single-spaced,
with a double space between each character speaking. Stage directions
should be indented at least ten spaces from the left-hand side
of the page.
- Your play(s) must have at least two (2) characters but no
more than eight (8).
- So we may assure anonymity in the selection process, please
omit your name and your school affiliation on the play script
itself. Type only the title and page number on each page.
- Enclose a cover letter from a faculty member of your department
assuring us of your student status and listing your contact
information (address, phone, etc.) and play title(s).
- Each playwright may submit no more than two (2) plays.
- Please send us FOUR copies of each script.
- Plays must be postmarked on or before November 1,
2007 and mailed to William Cunningham (see address
below).
- A $20 entry fee in a check made payable to ACTF MGMT LTD-Region
I is required for each play submitted ONLY IF your college has
not entered a production in this year's festival. Mail the check
to:
Kelly Morgan
Dept. of Theatre
Fitchburg State College
160 Pearl St.
Fitchburg MA 01420
The submitted plays will not be returned to you, nor will they be
critiqued. However, you will receive a letter notifying you of your
play's status in the Festival by early January, 2009.
Faculty Advisors/Student Directors:
At the 2009 Festival, student directors from six different schools
will direct the plays and be assigned a faculty advisor. Student
directors will be chosen from the student directors with entered
productions from the year 2007. If you are a student director who
has had an associate or participating entry, please send your resume
and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member to at the address
below. In addition, your KCACTF Respondents will also serve as a
reference. One of these student directors will be selected each
year to represent our region at the national festival at the Kennedy
Center.
As in the past, scripts selected will be presented at the Regional
festival. Each script will be directed by a theatre professional
not associated with the playwright's school. Auditions will be
held at the regional festival; all festival participants are eligible
and encouraged to audition. Any faculty member interested in advising
a Ten Minute Play student director should contact your Regional
Chair, Kelly Morgan as soon as possible for consideration.
Student playwrights send your material to:
William Cunningham
NPP Chair, KCACTF - Region I
Department of Theater
Salem State College
352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA 01970
E-mail:
William.cummingham@salemstate.edu
Student directors, and faculty advisors send your materials to:
These materials are to be sent via US mail or e-mail to:
Kelly Morgan/English Region 1 Chair
160 Pearl Street
Fitchburg State College
Fitchburg, MA 01420
(978)665-3555
fax: (978)665-3149
kmorgan@fsc.edu
The deadline for these applications/materials to be RECEIVED is
Wednesday, December 4, 2007.
** A play longer than 10 minutes will be INELIGIBLE for competition**
