Opportunity - caveat: reading fee

This courtesy of Steve, who notes "there is reading fee, that I'm not sure is a good precedent for a university student prize--you may note that. Further editorial: I think that's different than the THIRD COAST prize fee which is standard for a literary journal and is the cost of a subscription--I did an editorial on this point for the "plays and playwrights" group blog, which I can further add to our blog."


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
To: The New Plays Editor
From: Karen Berman, Chair of Theatre

and Artistic Director of Theatre Programs

Georgia College & State University
Porter Hall
CBX 066
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Email: kbermanth@aol.com
What: Pillars Playwriting Prize
Presenter: Georgia College & State University Theatre Department in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, Speech, and Journalism.
Deadline: December 1, 2008

Georgia College & State University Pillars Playwriting Prize

We are now accepting full-length scripts for a playwriting festival prize for 2009-2010. The competition is open to all playwrights. All scripts entered in the contest must remain unpublished and unproduced. Produced is defined as any production to which tickets are sold. Translations, adaptations and musical texts are not eligible. Scripts submitted will not be returned. The winning script will be produced as a part of the Georgia College & State University, Department of Music and Theatre, mainstage season. An honorarium of $2000.00 will be awarded for a short residency and presentations of workshops early in the rehearsal process. Submitting playwrights should be open to some minor revisions and to working in an educational setting during the 2009-2010 school year. Playwrights will return to the campus for the opening. Travel expenses will be included. A $20.00 reading fee is charged in order to pay the reading teams a stipend for their work. Checks should be made payable
to the GCSU Pillars Playwriting Prize. Please submit the complete script in the standard format along with a cover letter and brief biography, resume or CV of no more than two pages by the deadline of December 1, 2008 to the following address:

Georgia College & State University
Department of Music and Theatre
Pillars Playwriting Prize
Karen Berman, Theatre Chair
478-445-1980
Porter Hall
CBX 066
Milledgeville, GA 31061