Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices
and Bonderman IUPUI National Youth Theatre Playwriting Development
Workshop and Symposium
The playwright producing the winning script in the
Anchorage
Press Playwriting Award for Theatre for Youth will also receive
a fellowship sponsored by the Children's Theatre Foundation of America
to attend either the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices
national conference or the Bonderman/IUPUI National Youth Theatre
Symposium. The Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices is
a national forum for plays-in-progress for young audiences held
in alternate years at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts. Playwrights and directors will rehearse and rewrite for five
days, and staged readings are then presented to Forum attendees
over a three-day period. The fellowship includes travel and housing.
The Center casts, provides and pays for actors, stage manager, music
directors, dramaturgical support, and production support.
The Waldo M. and Grace C. Bonderman IUPUI National Youth Theatre
Playwriting Development Workshop and Symposium, founded in 1982,
encourages playwrights to create artistic scripts for young audiences.
The workshop provides a forum through which four writers selected
via open submission participate in script development in collaboration
with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors. The process
provides a means for playwrights to take their work to the next
level of development. Their collaboration with the professional
staff starts by mail and telephone and culminates in a week-long
residency finalizing with a week-end of sharing the work at the
Indiana Repertory Theatre with participants who attend the symposium.
Excerpts from eight other selected plays are also presented along
with the three panel discussions during the week-end.
The New Visions/New Voices program is held in alternate years.
The winner of the Children's Theatre Foundation of America Fellowship
recipient will attend the Bonderman program in those years when
the New Visions/New Voices is not being offered.
