REGION V KCACTF COVER SHEET FOR ALL FULL-LENGTH
SCRIPTS
For EACH play submitted, playwrights should submit TWO DOCUMENTS as email attachments:
1) this cover sheet completed with all appropriate information and submitted to
region5nppcover@gmail.com. All coversheets should be titled with the play title and the author’s
name – The best play ever by Pat Carriere .pdf
2) the script in PDF format, which should have a TITLE PAGE but no author or school
identification, submitted to region5fulllength@gmail.com
The PDF file must be named as the title of your play. For example:
If your play is titled, This Play is a Real Winner, your file should be This play is a real winner.pdf.
Of course eliminate any formatting in the title that won’t allow it to save. Any files titled “my play”,
“kcactf” or any other generic name will be returned.
ENSURE that your name and contact information is absent from every page of the PDF script, title
page and file name. This is a “blind” submission selection process, so we are making every effort to
have the outside readers influenced only by the script—not the name or institutional affiliation.
FINALLY, ALSO SUBMIT THE COVER SHEET AND SCRIPT TO THE NATIONAL OFFICE in
one email (ghenry@kennedy-center.org).
A completed submission then should consist of three emails, two to Region V and one to Gregg Henry
at the National Office.
THE DEADLINE FOR submission at the national level for most of the awards in Michael Kanin
Playwriting Awards Program is December 1 st, 2014. The Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship submission
deadline is Feb. 1st, 2015.
For the David Mark Cohen Award: submit the cover sheet and script to the Region V site only. Do
not submit the David Mark Cohen entries to the National Office—except for full length plays that
are part of the Ken Ludwig award entry. THE DEADLINE for submission for the David Mark
Cohen award (a regional award) is the November 1, 2014.
Please note: You must enter your play in a specific Michael Kanin Award category.
Please check a box on this form designating entry category.
PLAYWRIGHT INFORMATION
Playwright’s Name:
College or University Affiliation:
Address:
Email:
Cell Phone:
The best way to contact you over winter break:
I am currently enrolled in a graduate (min. 3 hours) or undergraduate program (min. six hours) ___
OR I graduated from a graduate or undergraduate program within the last two years ___
OR I am a faculty member ___ (eligible for Musical, Rosa Parks, David Mark Cohen ONLY)
OR I am a non-faculty working playwright ____ (eligible for David Mark Cohen ONLY)
If my play is selected for the regional festival I agree to attend the festival. Yes__ No __
Advising Professor’s Name:
Advising Professor’s Email:
SCRIPT INFORMATION
Title of Script:
Length of Script (in pages):
Synopsis (100 words or fewer):
Check all items that apply to the STUDENT-WRITTEN script you are entering (unless your play is
an entry for the Ken Ludwig Award, then check only that award):
___ an associate or participating entry eligible for the Hip Hop Creator Award
___ an associate or participating entry eligible for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student
Playwriting Award
______ KCACTF undergraduate playwriting award.
_ a comedy or a script with significant comic elements (eligible for the Mark Twain Prize for Comic
Playwriting)
___ has a theme appropriate for young people (eligible for the Theater for Young Audiences Award)
___ written by a person of African heritage and deals with the African experience in the United States or
abroad (eligible for the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award)
___ deals with the human experience of living with a disability (eligible for the Jean Kennedy Smith
Playwriting Award)
___This award is offered to the outstanding student written play that explores issues of gender, diversity,
and sexual orientation (Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting)
___ written by a person of Latina/Latino heritage (eligible for the Latinidad Playwriting Award)
____any subject written by students of Asian heritage (The Paul Stephen Lim Asian-American
Playwriting Award)
___ an entry for the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship (IF CHECKED, DO NOT CHECK ANY
OTHER ITEM)
Check all items that apply to the STUDENT AND/OR FACULTY-WRITTEN script you are entering:
___ a FULLY MOUNTED PREMIERE KCACTF entry (David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award)
___ a musical (KCACTF Musical Theatre Award)
___ addresses issues of social justice and/or civil rights (Rosa Parks Playwriting Award)
Check this item ONLY IF YOU ARE A NON-FACULTY WORKING PLAYWRIGHT submitting a
full-length script produced at a college or university and entered in KCACTF:
___ a FULLY MOUNTED KCACTF entry (eligible for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award)