Playwrights

Full Length Play Competition

Updated September 27, 2010

Beginning in the fall of 2006, the National Playwriting Program in Region III will accept full-length plays. Up to four exceptional plays will be selected for a reading at the regional festival unless there are no entries that year.

Guidelines

1. This opportunity is for playwrights from schools who have not entered the play as either an associate or participating production.
2. Running time for the play must be longer than 60 minutes.
3. An email attachment of the play must be submitted in addition to a separate Cover Sheet, to the Region III NPP Chair. Those selected will be notified by December 1 and will be asked to send the play by email attachment to the Kennedy Center by that date.
4. There is no charge for entering the contest this year.
5. Play(s) will be selected by a reading committee from outside the region.
6. If selected, we hope the playwrights can attend the regional festival where the plays will be given a script-in-hand reading. If the playwrights cannot attend the festival their plays will still be eligible for national awards (see below) provided they have been produced by a college or university or publicly presented in a "rehearsed" or "staged reading" format following a significant development process. This reading can occur at their home school or at the regional festival (either is acceptable).
7. The playwrights selected may bring their own director and cast to do the reading or they can choose to have a director assigned and a cast selected from among the actors who audition for the 10 minute play festival on the Wednesday afternoon of the festival.
8. Play(s) selected will automatically become eligible for all national awards for full-length plays from the KCACTF Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program, except for the National Student Playwriting Award which goes to a play entered as a participating production.
9. Please, no more than 2 entries per playwright. Students can submit up to two plays in each category (ten minute, one act, and full length) for a maximum of six plays total.

Submission

There is a limit of two plays per playwright. Students can submit up to two plays in each category (ten minute, one act, and full length) for a maximum of six plays total.

How to Apply: Fill Out Application Components A & B

PLAYWRIGHT'S FULL LENGTH PLAY COVER SHEET

A. ONLINE APPLICATION COMPONENT

Fill out the online application form above to identify the playwright.

NOTE: The Title of Script in this form must match that of the emailed script.

B. EMAIL APPLICATION COMPONENT

SCRIPT
(Text document, DOC or PDF.)
Submit the script document to the National Playwriting Program Chair, Region III (Steve Feffer), and to the artistic director of the National Office (Gregg Henry). Email to:

steve.feffer@wmich.edu, ghenry@kennedy-center.org

NOTE: The script should have a TITLE PAGE but no author or school identification. The title identifies the script with the playwright.