Trinity Rep’s eighth annual playwriting competition for New England High School students, Write Here! Write Now!, is accepting entries now through March 19. Submitted scripts are adjudicated through a blind submission process by a panel of Trinity Rep staff. Each year, four winners are selected with at least one winner from a Providence high school.
Write Here! Write Now! is presented each year as part of the “Beyond Trinity Rep” Community Education movement at the organization. Creative writing, English, and theater teachers are asked by Trinity Rep’s education department to assign a ten-minute play as a part of their classroom curriculum. All completed plays are then submitted – free of charge – to the Write Here! Write Now! competition. Resources for teachers, including a study guide for bringing the Write Here! Write Now! curriculum into the classroom, are available on Trinity Rep’s website.
And if your school does not participate? Students are asked to compose an original ten-minute play and submit it via the online application form. Winning plays will be performed at Trinity Rep during a free public reading.
The winning playwrights will work with Trinity Rep staff members in a play development session before having their play read by professional actors in front of an audience of their friends and family on May 21, 2019. Winners will also receive a scholarship towards any Trinity Rep Young Actors Studio after- school class. Plays should be submitted in 12 pt. Times New Roman font, single or double space.
Favorite guideline on the application? “Scripts should have no more than 12 characters.”
Deadline for submissions is 5pm, March 19, 2019.