SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Play submissions are to be made electronically in either PDF or Word Document format.

The script needs to be blinded- that is with title page but no identification of playwright or school affiliation; a second, cover sheet also needs to be included which will have the playwright and school ID, contact info and play synopsis.

All scripts must be in the Samuel French format.  For a sample of the format click on: Script Formatting 

The deadline for all submissions is October 28.

Plays submitted after the deadline will not be considered for this coming year’s festival, but can be considered for the following year.  Please read the rules and guidelines carefully for each award.

To be eligible for any student playwriting award, an undergraduate must carry a minimum of 6 semester hours (or equivalent quarter hours), while a graduate must carry 3 semester hours (or equivalent quarter hours). Undergraduate, graduate, and continuing part-time student playwrights must be matriculating, degree-seeking students. It is expected that work on the new play will have begun during the period the student is so enrolled.

Students in on-line courses may submit ten-minute and one-act plays within the region they reside, providing they confirm that they carry the required 6 semester hours of credit when the play was written.  They must affirm that the school where they take the on-line course participates on an associate or participating entry level.

If a school has any associate or participating entry, the school may enter as many original scripts for reading awards as it wishes, but no more than two per student per category.   A “category” means a maximum of two 10-minute plays, two one-act plays, and two full-length plays allowed per student – a total of six in all. 

The exceptions to the above rules are for the David Mark Cohen Award and The National Student Playwriting Award.  To qualify, National Student Playwriting nominees must have received full productions and been entered as an Associate or a Participating entry; David Mark Cohen entries will have had full productions and been entered as a Participating entry. This year the National Student Playwriting Award, along with all Michael Kanin awards will be reading awards. All new plays entered as Participating during the year (January to December) will be considered for the regional festival presentation.

Please note that any one play may qualify for more than one award.  Please read through all the award qualifications to see if your play can be submitted.  As with any portion of this process, if there are questions please contact the Playwriting Chair for Region Seven.

A new play or musical may be a collaboration, adaptation, company-written play, or a play based on factual materials but may not be a translation. To be eligible, adaptations from other works must include written permission for works under copyright and must involve substantial changes in form and/or expression.

A full-length play is defined as either one major work or two or more shorter works written by the same playwright, based on a single theme, or encompassed within a unifying framework. In all cases, the entry must provide a full evening of theater-approximately one and one-half hours or longer, including intermissions.

Staged readings as well as full productions of new works can be entered as associate productions. These associate staged readings or full productions will be responded to by Region VII NPP representatives and eligible for national playwriting awards. Only full productions can be entered as participating productions.

An individual is a “student playwright” if he or she is a current graduate or undergraduate student (minimum six hours for undergraduate, three hours for graduate) or within one year of graduation from an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of the script submission, or within two years if the script is entered as an associate or participating production.

Please check over all the additional information offered on the national website at :  http://www.kcactf.org/