GUIDELINES FOR KCACTF ORIGINAL PLAYS

If you have entered your ORIGINAL play in the January 2009 Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival which will take place in Lawrence, KS from January 18-24, 2009, you will need to submit your scripts and synopsis of the play electronically and in hard copy to the KCACTF Region V Playwriting Chair, David Crespy by MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008

This would include ANY original script written by students, faculty, or guest artists entered as an associate or participating entry in Winter or Fall of 2008. Non-student original scripts are eligible for the David Mark Cohen Award and Musical Theatre Awards.

Your ORIGINAL play will be eligible for any number of the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards, but ONLY if you email an electronic version of the script and a synopsis as either an MS Word, RTF (Rich Text Format), or PDF file no later than MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008 and provide me with four (4) bound copies of the script, so that I can mail all the scripts and synopses to the national festival for consideration.

Each script submitted must be accompanied by a detachable title page with the writer's name, snail-mail address, e-mail address and phone number clearly printed. The script itself should include a blind title page (with the title of the play only) and also a page specifying the setting and the characters’ ages, genders and descriptions. Please allow a week to ten days if sending your entries via First-Class US Mail. Entries must be received by Monday, October 27, 2008. Scripts received later than this date, or not correctly blinded will not be read.

The full listing of the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards may be found at: http://www.kcactf.org/, go to the “Students” tab at the bottom of the page. See also the Kanin Playwriting Awards “Cheat Sheet” available here, provide by former national Playwriting Chair, Gary Garrison.

You are welcome to revise your play after your production and send in a revised version of the script by MONDAY, October 27, since the Kanin Playwriting Awards are based on a reading competition.

Email and Mail all scripts to:

Dr. David A. Crespy

KCACTF Region V Playwriting Chair

Department of Theatre

University of Missouri-Columbia

129 Fine Arts Building

Columbia, Missouri 65211

Email: crespyd@missouri.edu

Phone: 573-882-0535