[CW-Grad] Fwd: A New Scholarship Award for Playwrights and Composers: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

[Robin Russin]

Subject: Fwd: A New Scholarship Award for Playwrights and Composers: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration


Here's another writing opportunity for your students.
 
Regards,
 
Char Nelson
KCACTF NPP Chair, Region VIII



Subject: A New Scholarship Award for Playwrights and Composers: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
 
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.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
 
In January 2011, the Kennedy Center will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States with two weeks of celebration.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Five to seven pieces will be selected for presentation at the Kennedy Center on January 31.
 
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 31st event in Washington DC.
 
Eligibility
-Currently matriculated undergraduate or graduate students from colleges or universities in the United States are eligible.
 
-If the submission is music theatre, both composer and lyricist must be current students.
 
-Multiple entries are allowed.
 
-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 ghenry at kennedy-center.org
 
 
To be considered for the Scholarships:
-Work must be wholly original and reflect the life and/or legacy of John F. Kennedy
-Work must be received by October 15, 2010
-Work must be submitted in PDF format to ghenry at kennedy-center.org. No hardcopy, paper entries will be accepted.
-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.]
-A separate title page, in pdf format, with title, date of draft, notice of copyright [copyright 2010 name of author(s), 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.
-Music theatre works should include a recording [either in electronic format to the address above or with a link to a hosting website]
-If the work is a monologue or soliloquy, stage directions and character information giving context to the work is necessary.
-The individual works should not exceed 20 minutes
 
 
Selection
-The first tier reading of the entered works will be made by a KCACTF National Playwriting Program-appointed team of readers
-The final selections will be made by a panel approved or invited by the Kennedy family.
-The winning selected for the scholarship will be announced by November 2010
 
 
Other information
-The January 31, 2011 Celebration of the selected work at the Kennedy Center will be directed by Jack Wright, Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas.
-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.
-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.
 
 
Gregg Henry, Artistic Director
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
Education Department
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington DC 20566-0001
202.416.8864
ghenry at kennedy-center.org
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Robin Russin

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