Deadline: January 10, 2025
Special Interests: disability, student
Website: https://thekennedycenter.smapply.io/prog/2023_vsa_playwright_discovery_program/
Description:
Young writers with disabilities and collaborative groups that include students with disabilities, in U.S. grades 6-12 (or equivalents) or ages 11-18 for non-U.S. students, are invited to explore the disability experience through the art of writing for performance: plays, screenplays, spoken word poetry (for single performer or a group), or music theater.. Writers are encouraged to craft short works from their own experiences and observations, create fictional characters and settings, or choose to write metaphorically or abstractly about the disability experience.
Young writers with disabilities are encouraged to submit a ten-minute script of any genre. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group of up to five students. The competition has three divisions: grades 6-7, grades 8-9, and grades 10-12 (or equivalents). A panel of theater professionals selects division winners.
One winning script is chosen in the Primary and Junior Divisions (grades 6-7 / ages 11-13 and 8-9 / ages 13-15 respectively). Winners will be featured in the press and on the Kennedy Center website.
Selected winners in the Senior Division (grades 10-12 / ages 15-18) will receive exclusive access to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C., and the opportunity to participate in staged readings and workshops alongside the nation’s premier collegiate playwrights as well as participate in the festival’s award ceremony. Winners of the Senior Division must be present for the entire event in order to be eligible for the award.
Comments from NMI Staff:
The application deadline is Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
We will receive your application the day that you submit it and you will receive verification of your submission and you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours of submitting your online application; please check your junk mail folder for this email. If you have not received a confirmation email after 24 hours, please contact us directly at vsainfo@kennedy-center.org.
No exact information on their 2024 contest. The 2023 contest recently finished in January.
Applications closed for 2024, will be due early January for 2025.
CONTACT PHONE: 202.628.2800
CONTACT ADDRESS:
VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program
818 Conecticut Ave, NW #600
Washington, DC 20006
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