| WASHINGTON, D.C. – VSA arts, an international nonprofit organization, seeks submissions for the Playwright Discovery Program. Middle and high school students with disabilities are encouraged to write a one-act play about disability. The program encourages students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. The selected play will be produced professionally at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the selected playwright will receive $2,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to see his or her play performed.
For the VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program, playwrights may draw from their own experiences or they may choose to write about an experience of someone they know or a fictional character. Students may submit their individual work or they may collaborate with a group or class of students.
Entries must be one-act plays of 40 pages or fewer. They should be original, unproduced, and unpublished at the time of submission. VSA arts will accept plays that have had previous readings or workshops as long as they were not produced for a paying audience and have not been publicly reviewed. More information may be found here.
About VSA arts
VSA arts was founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. Each year, seven million people participate in VSA arts’ programs through a nationwide network of affiliates and in 54 countries around the world. VSA arts is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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