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<div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b>I AM CERTAIN THAT AFTER THE DUST OF CENTURIES HAS PASSED OVER OUR CITIES,WE, TOO, WILL BE REMEMBERED NOT FOR VICTORIES OR DEFEATS IN BATTLE OR IN POLITICS, BUT FOR OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">In January 2011, the Kennedy Center will celebrate the 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35<sup>th</sup> President of the United States with two weeks of celebration.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival will join in marking the anniversary with a special scholarship program for performance-based writing inspired by Kennedy and his Legacy. This celebration will take place on the evening of Monday, January 31 in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater as a Millennium Stage event, simulcast on the web and archived on the Kennedy Center’s website.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">This is a call for short plays, monologues, soliloquies, songs, and spoken word poetry that is inspired by the life, presidency and legacy of JFK. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Five to seven pieces will be selected for presentation at the Kennedy Center on January 31. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The contributing playwright/composer/lyricists/slam poets of the selected works will each receive a $1000 scholarship, travel, lodging and per diem to be in residence for the January 31<sup>st</sup> event in Washington DC. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>Eligibility</u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-Currently matriculated undergraduate or graduate students from colleges or universities in the United States are eligible.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">-If the submission is music theatre, both composer and lyricist must be current students.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">-Multiple entries are allowed.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">-Interested writers need to contact the Kennedy Center to receive a “prompt”; a PDF containing background material, writings, chronology, etc on JFK by writing to <a href="mailto:ghenry@kennedy-center.org">ghenry@kennedy-center.org</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>To be considered for the Scholarships:</u></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">-Work must be received by October 15, 2010</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-Work must be submitted in PDF format to <a href="mailto:ghenry@kennedy-center.org">ghenry@kennedy-center.org</a>. No hardcopy, paper entries will be accepted.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The work will be submitted with a blind title page with only title, date of draft, the statement: “This is a copyrighted work submitted for review purposes only.” The entered manuscript will have no author identification within the body of the paper [headers, footers, at pagination points, etc.]</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-A separate title page, in pdf format, with title, date of draft, notice of copyright [copyright 2010 <i>name of author(s),</i> name, phone and email address of the author(s) must be submitted as a second, separate PDF document in the same e-mail as the blinded manuscript.<br>
-Music theatre works should include a recording [either in electronic format to the address above or with a link to a hosting website]</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-If the work is a monologue or soliloquy, stage directions and character information giving context to the work is necessary. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The individual works should not exceed 20 minutes</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>Selection</u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The first tier reading of the entered works will be made by a KCACTF National Playwriting Program-appointed team of readers</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The final selections will be made by a panel approved or invited by the Kennedy family.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The winning selected for the scholarship will be announced by November 2010</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">-The January 31, 2011 Celebration<span style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </span>of the selected work at the Kennedy Center<span style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </span>will be directed by Jack Wright, Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas. <span style="COLOR: #1f497d"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The selected work will be presented in concert reading format, and performed by a Washington DC-based company of artists affiliated with Arena Stage, African Continuum Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and others.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">-The possibility exists that one or more of the selected works may be showcased, also in concert reading format, at the KCACTF National Festival in April 2011.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Gregg Henry, Artistic Director</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><a href="mailto:ghenry@kennedy-center.org">ghenry@kennedy-center.org</a></span></div>
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