The National Student Playwriting Award
View the list of Past Winners. The playwright and/or institution chosen for the National Student Playwriting Award will receive the following:
- Production of the play at the Kennedy Center as part of the KCACTF
national festival, with all expenses paid for the production and the
playwright
- The Kennedy Center will award the playwright a cash prize of $2500.
- Dramatists Guild Award
The Dramatists Guild Award provides the playwright with Active membership in the Guild. It will also honor the author with the awarding of a certificate presented at its offices in New York City. In the past, the award recipient has been cited at a guild reception to honor all the playwrights of the previous year.
- Samuel French Award
Samuel French, Inc. will offer the playwright a contract for publication of the play, and will send the playwright royalties received for productions of the play worldwide. Additionally, the playwright will be invited to visit the offices of Samuel French for a tour of the premises, a pre-publication session with the production department, and a luncheon with the firm's editors.
- Sundance Theater Laboratory Fellowship
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival will provide the winner with an all-expenses paid fellowship to the Sundance Theater Lab. The Sundance Theater Laboratory will arrange for the playwright to meet in a mentoring situation with the Sundance resource directors and dramaturgs and may provide a reading of the playwright's play with actors in attendance at the Lab.
- The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Award
ATHE will present an award of $100 to each theater department producing an original student-written , full-length play at each of the eight KCACTF Regional Festivals. Additionally, ATHE will present a cash award of up to $1000 to the theater department of the school producing the national winning script in a public ceremony during the KCACTF National Festival.
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| Hank Willenbrink is awareded The John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play 2007 |
2007
18 by Hank Willenbrink, University of California-Santa Barbara
2006
Social Darwinism by Angela Gant, Playwrights' Theatre of Texas Tech University
2005
Jasper Lake by John Kuntz, Playwrights' Theatre of Boston University
2004
Good Morning
Athens! A Rock Musical, Book,
Music and Lyrics by Sean Keogh, University
of Wyoming
2003
Training Wisteria by Molly Smith Metzler, Playwrights
Theatre of Boston University
2002
THE LEPERS OF BAILE BAISTE, by Ronan Noone, Boston Playwrights
Theatre at Boston University
2001
It Is No Desert by Dan Stroeh, Wittenberg University
2000
Lot's Daughters by Rebecca Basham, University of New Orleans,
Louisiana
1999
Onionheads by Jesse Miller, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia
1998
Carriage by Jerome Hairston, James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia
1997
The Last Supper Restoration, Dan O'Brien, Middlebury College,
VT
1996
An' Push da Wind Down, Lisa Harper, University of Southern California
1995
Father's Prize Poland China, Shirley Sergent, University of New
Orleans, LA
1994
Prisoner, James A. Bell, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
1993
All That He Was, Larry Johnson and Cindy O'Connor, California
State University-Fullerton
1992
A Warring Absence, Jody Duncan, California State University, San
Bernadino
1991
The Art of Waiting, Rob Shin, Brown University, Providence, RI
1990
The Lower Rooms, Eliza Anderson, Brown Unviersity, Providence,
RI
1989
Blue Collar Blues, Denise Kay Dillard, University of
Minnesota, Duluth
1988
no winner selected this year
1987
Nijinsky: God's Mad Clown, Glenn Blumstein, University
of Iowa, Iowa City
1986
Dancers, Michael Grady, University of Arizona, Tuscon
1985
Excursion Fare, Dennis Smith, University of Oregon, Eugene
1984
Eleven Zulu, Patrick Sean Clark, University of Missouri, Columbia
1983
The Bulldog and the Bear, Richard Gordon, California State University,
Fullerton
1982
The Cashier, Glen Merzer, Indiana University, Bloomington
1981
Going On!, Glenn Treibitz, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
1980
The Diviners, James Leonard, Jr., Hanover College, IN
1979
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Lee Blessing, University
of Iowa, Iowa City
1978
Sideshow, Rick Smith, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
1977
Meg, Paula Vogel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1976
Conpersonas, Paul Stephen Lim, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KA
1975
Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth, Carol Sorgenfrei,
University of California, Santa Barbara
1974
The Soft Touch, Neil Cuthbert, Douglass College, New Brunswick,
NJ

