KEN LUDWIG AWARD

Eligibility:

• The individual must be a current undergraduate student or within two years after graduation with an undergraduate degree.  As this is a scholarship award, he/she must be a currently enrolled student or planning to enroll the following year in a graduate theatre or writing program in the following year. 
• The individual must submit a letter from a faculty member nominating the student and attesting to his/her student enrollment status.
• The individual must represent a school that has a KCACTF associate or participating entry.  A school may have more than one representative.

Application Process: The prize will be awarded based on a playwright’s body of work.  As evidence of that body of work, the writer should submit:

• A resume of their writing and production history.
• Three plays.  One of those plays must be at least sixty minutes in length.
• Deadline is February 1st.

Evaluation Procedures:

• The National Playwriting Program will establish a screening committee each year to read submitted work. 
• The work of up to five writers will become finalists, and that work will be judged by a professional playwright provided by the National Playwriting Program and the Artistic Director of KCACTF.
• All evaluation should be done with blind readings that do not include the author’s name, address or school.