REGION V KCACTF

COVER SHEET for ALL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPTS

You MUST submit both a cover sheet and a script to be considered for inclusion in the festival.

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS IS November 1.

You MUSTsubmit both a cover sheet and a script TO THE NATIONAL OFFICE to be considered for inclusion in National Playwriting Categories. This MUST happeninone emailto Gregg Henry at ).

A completed submission consists of THREE emails:

  • two to Region V (cover sheet and play separately)
  • one to Gregg Henry at the National Office (cover sheet and play in one email)

SUBMIT THE COVER SHEET to . All coversheets files should be named with the play title and the author’s name – (example: thebestplayever by SueSmith.pdf). The cover sheet should include the following:

PLAYWRIGHT INFORMATION

Playwright’s Name:

College or University Affiliation:

Address:

Email:

Cell Phone:

I am currently enrolled in a graduate (min. 3 hours) or undergraduate program (min. six hours) YES ___

OR

I graduated from a graduate or undergraduate program within the last yearYES ___

If my play is selected for the regional festival I, as a student, agree to attend the festival. YES__

Advising Professor’s Name:

Advising Professor’s Email:

OR I am a faculty member ___ (eligible for Musical, Rosa Parks, David Mark Cohen ONLY)

OR I am a non-faculty working playwright ____ (eligible for David Mark Cohen ONLY)

If my play is selected for the regional festival I agree to attend the festival. Yes__ No __

Please note: You must enter your play in a specific Michael Kanin Award category.

Please check a box on this form designating entry category.

Check all items that apply to the STUDENT-WRITTEN script you are entering (unless your play is an entry for the Ken Ludwig Award, then check only that award):

___ an associate or participating entry eligible for the Hip Hop Creator Award

___ an associate or participating entry eligible for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award

___ KCACTF undergraduate playwriting award.

___ a comedy or a script with significant comic elements (eligible for the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting)

___ has a theme appropriate for young people (eligible for the Theater for Young Audiences Award)

___ written by a person of African heritage and deals with the African experience in the United States or abroad (eligible for the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award)

___ deals with the human experience of living with a disability (eligible for the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award)

___This award is offered to the outstanding student written play that explores issues of gender, diversity, and sexual orientation (Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting)

___ written by a person of Latina/Latino heritage (eligible for the Latinidad Playwriting Award)

____any subject written by students of Asian heritage (The Paul Stephen Lim Asian-American Playwriting Award)

___ an entry for the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship (IF CHECKED, DO NOT CHECK ANY OTHER ITEM)

Check all items that apply to the STUDENT AND/OR FACULTY-WRITTEN script you are entering:

___ a FULLY MOUNTED PREMIERE KCACTF entry (David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award)

___ a musical (KCACTF Musical Theatre Award)

___ addresses issues of social justice and/or civil rights (Rosa Parks Playwriting Award)

Check this item ONLY IF YOU ARE A NON-FACULTY WORKING PLAYWRIGHT submitting a full-length script produced at a college or university and entered in KCACTF:

___ a FULLY MOUNTED KCACTF entry (eligible for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award)

SCRIPT INFORMATION

Title of Script:

Length of Script (in pages):

Synopsis (100 words or fewer)

SUBMISSION of FULL LENGTH PLAY

The script, in PDF format, must have a TITLE PAGE but no author or school identification. This script should be submitted to . The PDF file must be named as the title of your play. For example:

If your play is titled, This Play is a Real Winner, your file should be This play is a real winner.pdf.

Please eliminateany formatting in the title that won’t allow it to save. Any files titled “my play”, “kcactf” or any other generic name will be returned.

ENSURE that your name and contact information is absent from every page of the PDF script, title page and file name. This is a “blind” submission selection process, so we are making every effort to have the outside readers influenced only by the script—not the name or institutional affiliation.

THE DEADLINE FOR submission at the national level for most of the awards inMICHAEL KANIN PLAYWRITING AWARDS PROGRAM is December 1st. The KEN LUDWIG PLAYWRIGHTING AWARD SCHOLARSHIP submission deadline is Feb. 1st.

For the David Mark Cohen Award: submit the cover sheet and script to the Region V siteonly. Do not submit the David Mark Cohen entries to the National Office—except for full length plays that are part of the Ken Ludwig award entry. THE DEADLINE for submission for the David Mark Cohen award (a regional award) is the November 1.