<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>JANE CHAMBERS AWARD - Last Call for Submissions, 2008 Winners & More!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This is an excellent opportunity!<br><br>Erith Jaffe-Berg, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Theatre<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>(951) 827-4418<br><a href="mailto:erithj@ucr.edu">erithj@ucr.edu</a><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); "><b>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Erith Jaffe <<a href="mailto:eandaberg@hotmail.com">eandaberg@hotmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); "><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">February 10, 2009 3:57:48 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); "><b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><<a href="mailto:erithj@ucr.edu">erithj@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); "><b>Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>FW: JANE CHAMBERS AWARD - Last Call for Submissions, 2008 Winners & More!</b><br></span></div><br><br><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Dear All,<br>> Here is our LAST CALL for submissions to the JANE CHAMBERS FEMINIST PLAYWRITING CONTEST 2009.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ROUND-UP CALL: Submissions must be POSTMARKED by Feb 15! The app form is on WTP website <<a href="http://www.athe.org/wtp/html/chambers.html">http://www.athe.org/wtp/html/chambers.html</a>>. No app fee this year. Details below... Go to website to apply.<br>> Thanks!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Maya<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> JANE CHAMBERS 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The Women & Theatre Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education invites submissions from female playwrights for the annual Jane Chambers Award, now in its MM Year.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award recognizes plays & performance texts created by women that present a feminist perspective & contain significant opportunities for female performers. Experimentation in form and subject matter are welcome. This annual award is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers who, through her plays such as A LATE SNOW, MY BLUE HEAVEN, KUDZU, & THE QUINTESSENTIAL IMAGE, became a major feminist voice in American theatre.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The Award for the primary Jane Chambers Contest consists of $500, free registration to attend the Association in Theater in Higher Education’s conference in NYC & a rehearsed reading of the winning piece at that conference this summer, hosted by WTP with ATHE. The winner should attend the conference’s awards ceremony. The student winner is also recognized, and receives a reading at WTP's Conference.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> To enter, please send three copies of a typed script, application form from WTP website, resume, brief description of the piece, and your email contact information. Please, only one submission per applicant, and no email submissions. The play may not yet be published. For the main division, mail submission to:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Jane Chambers Award<br>> c/o Maya Roth<br>> Dept of Performing Arts<br>> 108 Davis Center, Box 571063<br>> Georgetown University<br>> Washington, DC 20009<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> NB: For the Student Award, mail to Jen-Scott Mobley, using the app form and contact info provided on WTP site.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> All entries MUST be postmarked by February 15, 2009.<br>> The Women & Theatre Program will announce the winner by June 30, 2009.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Spread the word!!!<br>> And... Please consider a donation to the Jane Chambers Award: we need your goodwill and generosity. Circulate news of recent winners, including Mary Dailey for her savvy feminist history play MMM and MMM who won in 2008. And kudos to our 2007 winner, Christine Evans, whose TROJAN BARBIE is premiering at ART this spring!<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Best Regards to All,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Maya E. Roth, Ph.D.<br>> Asst Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Georgetown<br>> Co-Coordinator, Jane Chambers Contest, WTP of ATHE<br><br><hr>Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. 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