Middle and high school students – enter the VSA Playwright Discovery Competition!

Middle and high school students – enter the VSA Playwright Discovery Competition!

Application deadline is April 13.

Middle and high school students are invited to explore the disability experience—in their own lives, the lives of others, or through fictional characters—by writing a script. Writers with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a one-act script for stage or screen. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by up to five students.

VSA Playwright CompetitionThe competition has three divisions. One winning script is selected in each of the Primary and Junior Divisions (grades 6-7 and 8-9 respectively). Winners in these divisions will receive $500 for arts programs at their schools, along with an award recognizing the student for excellence in script writing.

In the Senior Division (grades 10-12), a select number of applicants will be brought to Washington, D.C. for the VSA Playwright Discovery Weekend Intensive, which will include pre-professional activities such as playwriting workshops, roundtable discussions, and staged readings. A select number of Senior Division winners’ scripts will be chosen for a Millennium Stage performance.

More information and application instructions are available online.

Application deadline is April 13, 2015.

Via: VSA