Call for Applications: VSA Playwright Discovery Competition

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Sponsored by: The Kennedy Center Office of VSA and Accessibility

http://education.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa/programs/about_playwright_competition.cfm

The Kennedy Center Office of VSA and Accessibility is now accepting applications for the 2017 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition. Writers with disabilities and collaborative groups that include students with disabilities, in U.S. grades 6-12 (or equivalents) or ages 11-18 for non-U.S. students, are invited to explore the disability experience through the art of writing for performance: plays, screenplays, spoken word poetry (for single performer or a group), or music theater. Writers are encouraged to craft short works from their own experiences and observations, create fictional characters and settings, or choose to write metaphorically or abstractly about the disability experience.

Selected winners in the Senior Division (grades 10-12 / ages 15-18) will receive exclusive access to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C., and the opportunity to participate in staged readings and workshops alongside the nation's premier collegiate playwrights as well as participate in the festival's award ceremony.

The deadline to apply is February 1, 2017.

Click here for full details and to apply.