Rosa Parks Playwriting Award

The Rose Parks Playwriting Award, presented in association with the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, is pleased to announce a new playwriting award in celebration of one of the great Americans of the civil rights movement, and recognizes the outstanding student or faculty-written full-length or one-act play on the subject of social justice and/or civil rights.

The first place award $2,500 for a full-length play or $1,000 for a one-act play, and a fellowship to attend a play development program.

* Dramatists Guild Award. The Dramatists Guild Award provides the playwright with Active membership in the Guild.

The play must be produced by a college or university or publicly presented in a "rehearsed" or "staged reading" format following a significant development process. The play must be entered, as an Associate or Participating entry, in the KCACTF. It must comply with the guidelines for scripts entered in the KCACTF Michael Kanin Playwriting Program.

Please refer to the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program Rules and Procedures.