The Quest For Peace Playwriting Award

This Playwriting Award intends to encourage student playwrights to grapple with the complicated issues facing the Middle East, and particularly Palestine and Israel.

• 1st Place Cash Award of $2,500 for a full-length play or $1,000 for a one-act play, and a fellowship to attend the KCACTF Summer Playwriting Intensive.
• Dramatists Guild Award. The Dramatists Guild Award provides the playwright with Active membership in the Guild.

The play must be produced by a college or university or publicly presented in a “rehearsed” or “staged reading” format following a significant development process. The play must be entered, as an Associate or Participating entry, in the KCACTF. It must comply with the guidelines for scripts entered in the KCACTF Michael Kanin Playwriting Program.

For other questions, refer to "Rules and Procedures for the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program" above.

The Quest for Peace Playwriting Award-winners

2008

Tennis at Nablus- Ismail Khalidi, New York University

2007

Beautiful American Soldier byDano Madden, Rutgers University Premiered at the University of Tulsa

2nd Place - The Near East, Alex Lewin, University of California- San Diego