WE NEVER GET CHOSEN

• One of the ways we try to guarantee even-handedness in our decision-making is by recruiting different critics, respondents, and adjudicators every year.  We try very hard not to endorse a particular kind of production, theory of performance, design aesthetic, or writing style. 

• Each year of the Festival we strive for excellence as defined by the people recruited by the region or the National Festival to make these kinds of decisions. 

• It doesn’t help to “second guess” the  process by tailoring your work to what was successful last year or treating the Festival like a “contest” to be won through prediction or inside information.  We hope your best work is entered and seen by objective respondents who give you an honest and sympathetic response.