AWARDS
THE NATIONAL TEN MINUTE PLAY AWARD
Submission deadline is
November 1. All plays are submitted by email to the Region I NPP Chair at:
npp.chair.region1@gmail.com
Please remove your name and school affiliation from the play itself, and include with your submission the
KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR TEN MINUTE PLAYS
Ten Minute Plays are no more than 10 minutes long. Please refer to
Gary Garrison’s guidelines on the
national website. It contains very good advice.
The submitted plays will be given a blind read by at least two readers from a different region. The top six choices will be invited to the Region I Festival in January. To remain in award contention, the playwright
must be able to attend the festival.
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. At least 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 in April as National Finalists.
THE JOHN CAUBLE SHORT PLAY AWARD
Submission deadline is
November 1. All plays must be submitted by email to both the Regional Playwriting Chair at
npp.chair.region1@gmail.com and to the National Office at
ghenry@kennedy-center.org
Please remove your name and school affiliation from the play itself, and include with your submission the
KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR ALL ONE-ACT PLAYS
The running time of a one-act play is under 60 minutes; when typed in standard format, a one-act play is approximately 15-45 pages in length; there is no intermission in a one-act play.
Up to six plays will be selected as finalists by readers outside the region and will be given staged readings at the Region I Festival in January.
In order to be selected a finalist for the KCACTF national John Cauble Short Play Award, a one-act must be invited to the regional festival as either a participating full production or for a staged reading. To remain in award contention, the playwright must be able to attend the Region I festival.
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 may be asked to register as an associate or participating production; please contact the Region I NPP Chair at npp.chair.region1@gmail.com for more information.
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 in January.
We encourage finalists to bring a rehearsed staged reading of the script(s) to the festival. However, if this proves impossible, finalists may be assigned a director and select a cast from those auditioning for the 10 Minute Play Festival on Wednesday morning. 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 in April as National Finalists.
THE DAVID MARK COHEN AWARD
(Full-Length Play or Musical)
Submission deadline is
November 1. This award may be presented to any student, faculty or working playwright whose play or musical is premiered and produced by a college or university theatre program and entered as an Associate or Participating entry within the KCACTF. Again, to be eligible, the submitted work must have been fully produced (not a staged reading) at the sponsoring school, and be registered as an Associate or Participating production with the festival.
All student-written plays are to be submitted by email both to the Region I NPP Chair at
npp.chair.region1@gmail.com and to the National Office at
ghenry@kennedy-center.org. All non-student plays need be submitted to the Regional NPP Chair only.
Please remove your name and school affiliation from the play itself, and include with your submission the official
KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR ALL FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
The play or musical will be read by at least two readers from Region I. The top two choices will be named the Region’s National Semi-Finalists at the Regional Festival in January. Their work will be held in consideration for the national festival in Washington DC in April as National Finalists.
MICHAEL KANIN PLAYWRITING
AWARDS PROGRAM
The distinguished playwright and screenwriter Michael Kanin (1910-1993) arranged for a remarkable series of awards to be given to student writers as part of the festival. The purpose of the program is to encourage college students to write for the stage by providing the opportunity for them to engage in the playwriting process.
Deadline for submission of One-Act and Full-Length scripts for consideration at the national level is
December 1. (Ten-minute plays are not eligible for these awards.)
All plays are to be submitted by email both to the Region I NPP Chair at
npp.chair.region1@gmail.com and to the National Office at
ghenry@kennedy-center.org.
Please remove your name and school affiliation and include with all submissions
either:
KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR ALL ONE-ACT PLAYS
KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR ALL FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
Please note, unless otherwise specified, only student-written plays are eligible for the following awards.
For a detailed description of each award, please follow the links to the National web site provided below:
NATIONAL STUDENT PLAYWRITING AWARD
KCACTF MUSICAL THEATRE AWARD (composer, lyricist, and librettist are eligible; faculty-written plays also eligible)
LORRAINE HANSBERRY PLAYWRITING AWARD
PAULA VOGEL AWARD IN PLAYWRITING
MARK TWAIN COMEDY PLAYWRITING AWARD
JEAN KENNEDY SMITH PLAYWRITING AWARD
ROSA PARKS PLAYWRITING AWARD
(faculty-written plays also eligible)
NATIONAL SCIENCE PLAYWRITING AWARD
QUEST FOR PEACE PLAYWRITING AWARD
LATINA/LATINO PLAYWRITING AWARD
KCACTF THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES AWARD
KEN LUDWIG PLAYWRITING SCHOLARSHIP
Submission deadline is
February 1.
This scholarship is designed to reward a playwright's continuing body of work, not one specific play. It is a scholarship award, and therefore the recipient must be a student in a graduate or undergraduate program for the upcoming year.
For full eligibility and application requirements, please visit the KCACTF national web site at:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/ludwig.html
Further information on all awards and procedures can be found on the National Web site at http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/awards.html
Finally, congratulations to all the National Playwriting Award recipients from Region One for Festival Year 2011!
