CALL FOR NEW PLAYS
One-Act Play Festival & Kanin Awards
Even though the old Cauble's Corner of fully produced one-act plays has been eliminated at our regional festival, we want you to know that your school may still enter an evening of one-act plays, as a Participating Entry, for consideration for invitation to festival. We now handle the John Cauble one-act play competition similarly to the ten-minute plays. The John Cauble Award is now a reading award. Plays are submitted to the region and sent to another region for the selection of the regional finalists. The top plays are then invited to the regional festival with a pre-cast and rehearsed music stand reading.
One-acts may be entered in the John Cauble Short Play category, as well as in the Michael Kanin Award areas where they fit.
John Cauble Short Play Award: Student playwrights are invited to submit one-act plays, with no restriction on subject matter, style, or intended audience. A panel of readers from outside our region will select scripts from those submitted. The playwrights whose scripts have been selected will be invited to the KCACTF Regional Festival. Prior to the festival, the selected playwrights will work with festival National Playwriting Program administrators to organize a concert reading of their play, which will then be presented at the festival. Following the readings, two of the plays will be selected as National Semi-finalists to be considered for an invitation to the national festival in Washington, D.C. in the spring.
[Note: While the top plays will be invited for a concert reading, the two that will be selected for consideration at the national level will not be judged by the concert reading but by a reading of the plays, which will be done by our festival respondents.]
SUBMISSION: John Cauble entries are to be submitted to Ellyn Gersh-Lerner at 1ACTREG8@GMAIL.COM and must be received by October 25.
Other Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards: In addition to the one-act festival, one-act plays may be submitted for certain Michael Kain Playwriting awards. Please note that you must meet the requiredments of the awards you choose to enter and that you must enter your play in a specific Michael Kanin Award category. For a list of these awards, see the cover sheet (link below).
SUBMISSION: One-act play entries for Michael Kanin awards (other than the John Cauble award) are to be submitted to Wade Hollingshaus (KANIN1ACTS8@GMAIL.COM) AND the Kennedy Center National Office (GHENRY@KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG) and must be received by December 1.
Info for All One-Act Submissions
One-act plays are plays that are more than 10 pages long (12pt. font) but that are less than one hour in playing time.
Students may submit 1-2 one-act plays for any Michael Kanin awards for which they are eligible. Each script that is submitted must be accompanied by a COVER SHEET. Please, read the cover sheet carefully; it contains important submission instructions. When saving the covers sheet please use the title of your play as the file name.
In order to make the evaluation process as easy as possible for our readers, we ask that scripts follow uniform formatting practices. See SCRIPT FORMATTING for details.
Every effort will be made to handle submissions with care. However, neither KCACTF nor Region VIII will be responsible for misdirected or lost submissions. Within one week after you submit your script, you should receive an email confirmation stating that we have received it. If you do not receive confirmation, please contact Ellyn Gersh-Lerner (email address below). We will not begin accepting scripts until September 1. Please, do not submit before this date.
No application fee is required from students attending schools that have entered either as Associate or Participating entry for the current year's Regional Festival. A $10.00 script-handling fee is required for any script entered by a student from a school without an Associate or Participating entry in the current year's festival.
For additional information onthe John Cauble competition and award contact:
Ellyn Gersh Lerner
ellyn.lerner@csun.edu
For additional information on the Michael Kanin awards contact:
Wade Hollingshaus
KCACTF NPP Chair, Region VIII
(801) 422-8995
wadeh@byu.edu
Link to Cover Sheet (RTF)
Link to Cover Sheet (DOC)
Link to Script Formatting |
