Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards
Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards
Award Categories - Click on each award for specific submission information, as well as an award history.
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The National Student Playwriting Award encourages college students to write for the stage by providing the opportunity for them to collaborate with actors, directors, and others through all stages of production.
The Nathan Louis Jackson Playwriting Award recognizes the outstanding full-length play written by an undergraduate student of color, on the subject of family and community.
The John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play recognizes student-written short plays and encourages young writers to develop the short play form in preparation for the playwriting profession.
The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award recognizes outstanding plays written by students of African or Diasporan descent that best express the African American experience.
The Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award recognizes the outstanding student-written play or musical for young people (any age, Pre K - 12th Grade).
The KCACTF Musical Theatre Award recognizes an outstanding faculty- or student-written musical.
The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting is offered to outstanding student-written plays that explore issues of gender, diversity, and sexual orientation.
The Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award recognizes outstanding ten-minute plays.
The KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award aims to lift up the voices of young Latinx playwrights, and is presented for an outstanding play written by a student of Latinx heritage.
The Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship is based on an undergraduate student playwright’s body of work.
The Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award is offered for an outstanding student-written script that explores the human experience of living with a disability.
The Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting is offered for an outstanding student-written full-length comic play.
The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award recognizes the outstanding student or faculty-written play on the subject of social justice and/or civil rights.
The Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award is given to the outstanding full-length or one-act play on any subject written by a student of Asian heritage.
The National Partners of the American Theatre Julie Jensen Playwriting Award recognizes an outstanding student-written play selected from eight nominations, one from each of the eight regions.
The Hip Hop Theater Creator Award celebrates new theatrical works that engage hip-hop as an ever-evolving attitude of contemporary resistance and self-definition.
The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award is presented to any playwright (student, faculty, or guest artist) whose play is premiered and produced by a college or university theatre program and entered in KCACTF.