KCACTF Region IV

		DRAMATURGY Region IV encourages you to send materials for the dramaturgy award to be given at the festival in Murfreesboro, TN this year. Our guest dramaturg this year is David Kranes - playwright, dramaturg, director, and founder of Sundance Playwrights Laboratory. To apply is simple. Please send materials as specified on the website to Mark Charney. The details are outlined on the website, and the deadline is now Friday, January 8, 2010. Submit two copies of the application packet to: Dr. Mark Charney Director of Theatre Department of Performing Arts Brooks Center Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0525 (864) 656-3043 cmark@clemson.edu The postmark deadline is January 8. Please feel free to contact me at cmark@clemson.edu if you have any questions. Do not miss this opportunity to attend the regional festival as a dramaturg, and possibly the Kennedy Center in April (and the O'Neill in July). Thanks so much, Mark Charney National Coordinator of the Critics Institute and Dramaturgy Initiative LMDA/ACTF Student Dramaturgy Award This award is designed to recognize contributions by student dramaturgs to the conception, development, and production of theater within their colleges and universities or to educational projects in dramaturgy. The philosophical foundation of this award - like that of dramaturgy itself - rests in the belief that art benefits from examination on the parts of both artist and audience, and that creative inspiration accompanied by analysis and reflection is most likely to lead to productions and projects that fulfill the spiritual, social and personal potential of the theatrical event. Also inherent in the guidelines is the belief that the dramaturg should participate fully and uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around the theatrical event. To validate the significance of the dramaturg's contributions - and to raise awareness of dramaturgy in the academic field - we ask for a letter of nomination from a faculty member. AWARD CRITERIA: Distinctiveness: what is creative about the dramaturg's approach and/or analysis? Contextualization: how is the production or project enhanced by dramaturgical analysis or research; alternatively, how is the academic project in dramaturgy imaginatively projected into a larger social, political, academic or artistic setting? Impact: in what ways are the audience, artists or institution enriched by dramaturgical ideas and execution Ethics: how are issues that might be raised by the terms of the collaboration or changing responsibilities dealt with and/or resolved?