Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award

About the Award

Established in 2005, the Dharma-Grace Foundation Creative Writing Award Fund, an endowed fund, provides an annual award for an outstanding script, written by a junior or senior undergraduate student (from any discipline) who is in good academic standing. The award is designated to provide funding for a full production of the script.

Eligible candidates for the award are selected by a faculty committee of the Department of Performance, Play & Design and recommended to the Dean of the Division of Arts for final approval.

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Eligibility Guidelines

• Must be a registered student at University of California, at Santa Cruz, junior or senior in good academic standing.
• Plays must not have had a professional production.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions will be accepted through a form linked to here at the beginning of each submission cycle. Check back her for information about submitting a dramatic work for a future award cycle.

Materials to include:

• Script in PDF format following the guidelines below.
• 500 word Creative Goals Statement.
• 1-3 sentence synopsis.

Guidelines to follow:

• Experimental work encouraged.
• Works must be full-length, original plays (including musicals).
• Script must include: cast list, brief character descriptions, and ideas for set requirements.
• Minimum 65 pages, maximum 120 pages using 12pt Times
• Use New Roman font or equivalent.
• Use standard play format and follow script formatting guidelines – please email Professor Rollins for format example: lirollin@ucsc.edu
• No translations/adaptions.
• Must be written primarily in English.
• Only one submission is allowed per playwright, per cycle.

Questions? Email Professor Rollins: lirollin@ucsc.edu

Once stagings of the award-winning plays are scheduled, performance information will be posted on our News & Events page.

Student playwrights are also invited to learn about the PPD New Play Festival!

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