The National Science Playwriting Award

Sponsored by physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, the National Science Playwriting Award is offered for the outstanding student-written full-length play written about science and scientists with the recognition that science is a part of culture. There is a different required theme every two years. For 2009 and 2010, the theme is "women in science in the modern era [1925-the present.]

• 1st Place Cash Award of $3,000 and a fellowship to attend the Underground Railway Theater Company's professional staged reading of the play in Cambridge, MA.

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 plays 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 National Science Playwriting Award-winners

2008

Atlas of Mud- Jennifer Fawcett, University of Iowa

2nd Place - The Attic Dwellers by Jennifer Barclay Newsham, University of California-San Diego