Friday, November 7, 2008

COLUMBIA COLLEGE THEATER DEPARTMENT: THE ANNUAL THEODORE WARD PRIZE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRITING (IL)

COLUMBIA COLLEGE THEATER DEPARTMNET: THE ANNUAL THEODORE WARD PRIZE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRITING (IL)
Deadline: 12-01-08

Material: Plays by African-American Playwrights
The annual playwriting contest sponsored by Columbia College Chicago Theater Center. Nationally acclaimed for recognizing the outstanding individual accomplishments of African-American playwrights, along with their growing importance to the shape and direction of American drama in our time.

The goals of the contest are as follows: To uncover and identify new African-American plays addressing the African-American experience that are promising and producible; To encourage and aid playwrights in the development of promising scripts; To offer an opportunity for emerging and established playwrights of African-American descent to be exposed to Chicago’s professional theater community through staged readings and/or fully mounted productions.

For more information on the submission process, and prizes, please contact contest facilitator, Chuck Smith at 312.344.6136.
Visit:
www2.colum.edu/undergraduate/theater/workships.php.

Source: The Loop

1 comment:

  1. Please note that the deadline for the Theodore Ward Prize WAS NOT December 1st. Annually the submission period is from April until July 1st. Also, please note that the contest facilitator is Andrea J. Dymond, who can be reached at 312-369-6340 or adymond@colum.edu.

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