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JANE CHAMBERS PLAYWRITING CONTEST
2010 Deadline is March 1, 2010 The JANE CHAMBERS AWARD recognizes feminist plays & performance texts created by women writers that present significant opportunities for female performers. Given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers, who through her plays such as My Blue Heaven, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and Kudzu became a major feminist voice in American theater, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Contest welcomes experimentations in form as well as subject matter. Feminism is understood variously, and may cross diverse class, sex, race, national, ethnic, theatrical, and/or geographic perspectives. The Jane Chambers Contest winner receives $500 & a rehearsed reading of the winning play at ATHE’s annual mid-summer conference. First given in 1984, the award is sponsored by the Women and Theater Program (WTP) with generous support from the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE), private donors, and university friends. The 2009 Jane Chambers Winner is Meryl Cohn for THE SIEGELS OF MONTAUK, a moving, queer-friendly family comedy with dark edges, which premiered at Counter Productions of Provincetown Theatre. The play received its WTP reading at ATHE in NYC, where we honored Cohn, in August 2009. See details & rights info about this play and the top finalists who gained distinction from 140 entries last year. The 2009 Student Contest Winner is Erin Kaplan for COLLATERAL BODIES. Submissions for the 2010 Jane Chambers Contest should
be sent to arrive by March 1. Please note there are two divisions, one
for student applicants!
The Jane Chambers Award is made possible through the generosity of friends. Please make a donation to help us keep this important contest alive! For more information, click Friends! FAQ: For Playwrights & Friends To inquire about initiating larger levels of giving or providing in-kind support for the Jane Chambers Contest and annual reading and/or our WTP reception, please contact Maya Roth (mer46@georgetown.edu) or Sara Warner (slw42@cornell.edu). To inquire about initiating larger levels of giving or providing in-kind support for the Jane Chambers Contest and annual readings and/or our WTP reception, please contact Maya Roth (mer46@georgetown.edu) or Priscilla Page (pmpage@theater.umass.edu), our JC Coordinators, or Ashley Lucas (lucasa@email.unc.edu), WTP President. NEWSFLASH:
And Sophie Comes Too by Meryl Cohn, our 2009 winner of the Jane Chambers
Award, was selected as one of the NYC Fringe Favorites, presented for
a longer run at Soho Rep Summer/Fall 2009.
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