National AIDS Fund/CFDA-Vogue Initiative Award for Playwriting
on themes that deal with HIV/AIDSFirst place award $2,500 and a fellowship to the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Dramatic Publishing Company presented the winning playwright with an offer of a contract to publish, license, and market the winning play.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Initiative joined in partnership with The National AIDS Fund in sponsoring The National AIDS Fund/CFDA-Vogue Initiative Playwriting Award. This was awarded to the best new collegiate writing concerning the personal and social implications of HIV/AIDS. The National AIDS Fund works to eliminate HIV/AIDS as a major health and social problem.
The national winner received a cash award of $2,500. In addition to the cash award, the winner also received a fellowship to attend the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in San Francisco, the largest new play festival west of the Mississippi.
2001
The Vacant Lot by Jeannine Coulombe, University of Minnesota-Duluth and University of Iowa
LAST YEAR OF THE AWARD2000
The Plague of the Twentieth Century by Michael Dice, Jr., Illinois State University
1999
Ain't Nothin' but a Thang by Marlin T. Tazewell, University of Southern California
1998
Dead Brains by Eric Champney, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana1997
The Last Supper Restoration, Dan O'Brien, Middlebury College, VT
