ASSITEJ INSPIRATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS
Highlighting the importance of playwriting in all its manifestations around the world, ASSITEJ will again honor three persons as “ASSITEJ Inspirational Playwrights” at the World Congress and Festival in Havana, Cuba in May 2024
Inspirational playwrights named at the Cradle of Creativity Festival in Cape Town in 2017: Kevin Dyer (UK), Suzanne Lebeau (Canada) and Rene Fernandez Santana (Cuba). In 2021, at the Mirai Festival in Tokyo, honorees were Maria Ines Falconi (Argentina), Omphile Molusi (South Africa) and Suzan Zeder (USA).
This will be administered and adjudicated by the Write Local Play Global network in coordination with the ASSITEJ Executive Committee.
The essence of our work is telling stories on our stages, and this award is created to honor writers who have inspired theatre for young audiences in their city, country, region, or all over the world. We welcome nominations of emerging, mid-career, or long-established playwrights.This is not meant to be a ‘lifetime achievement award’, although nominations could be for a playwright with a long and impressive body of work. A younger and extremely promising playwright who had been inspirational could also be nominated.
How they have been inspirational could be very particular and individual, including:
Writing a play or plays innovative in content and/or form that help transform TYA in their country
Serving as a mentor and role model to other writers
Writing politically or socially aware work that challenges entrenched tradition or power in their country or region
Through their writing, encouraging audiences to see other people, the world and its events in a more profound and human way.
It will be the individual nominator who will tell the story of how the playwright they nominate has been inspirational.
Honoring three inspirational playwrights at each Congress allows ASSITEJ to celebrate its broad membership of different genders, ages, backgrounds, cultures, regions and languages. ASSITEJ members come from small and large countries, work for and with different ages of young audiences, and create theatre by a multitude of varied processes. The ASSITEJ Inspirational Playwrights will reflect not only the diversity in form and subject matter of playwriting around the world, but also its global membership of talented playwrights and theater makers.
In addition to the ceremony/reception at which the inspirational playwrights are named, the organizers of the Congress will be invited to work with the EC, WLPG and the selected playwrights to showcase their work in a creative manner, such as performances, translations, readings, etc.
The nominations are due JANUARY 30, 2024.
LINK TO CRITERIA AND NOMINATION INFORMATION
LINK TO DOWNLOADABLE APPLICATION FORM
For Questions or concerns, contact Kim Peter Kovac at wlpg.tya@gmail.com
LINK AL ANUNCIO, INFORMACIÓN Y FORMULARIO DE INSCRIPCIÓN
Por dudas y preguntas por favor contactar a María Inés Falconi a mifalconi@argentores.org.ar
LIEN VERS L’ANNONCE, LES INFORMATIONS ET LE FORMULAIRE D’INSCRIPTION
En cas de problème ou de questions, contactez s’il vous plaît Karin Serres à karinserres@me.com
LINK PARA ANÚNCIO, INFORMAÇÕES E FORMULÁRIO DE INSCRIÇÃO.
Em caso de dúvidas, por favor contate Cleiton Echeveste: cleiton.echeveste@gmail.com.
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