The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award

The Rose Parks Playwriting Award, presented in association with the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, celebrates one of the great Americans of the civil rights movement. This award recognizes the outstanding student or faculty-written play (one act or full length) on the subject of social justice and/or civil rights.

• 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 a play development program.
• 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 Rosa Parks Playwriting Award-winners

2008

Srebrenica - Damir Konjicija, University of Illinois

Runners-up -

• Don Coyote - Daniel Frey, Arizona State University
• South Bridge - Reginald Edmund, Ohio University

2007

The Aperture - Sean Christopher Lewis, University of Iowa

2nd place - House Full of Letters - Kit Steinkellner, UCLA

Honorable Mention - Herschel in History - Cary Gitter, NYU