ORGANIZATIONS
Looking for the Polish Shakespeare – National Competition for Young Playwrights (Poland)
The Polish Centre of ASSITEJ is the main organizer of this Competition for Young Playwrights. It has a long-standing tradition and it has been organized every two years since 1984.
New Plays for Children and Young People (Poland)
New Plays for Children and Young People has been published since 1992 (editor: Zbigniew Rudziński) and is aimed at professional and amateur theatres. Thirty-two volumes have been issued so far.
The publishing of New Plays for Children and Young People is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and it is currently the only publication in Poland which regularly presents the latest drama works for young audiences.
Theatre for children and young people play competition (Poland)
Started in 1986 and organized by Zbigniew Rudziński, the competition aims to add new plays to the repertory of theatres working for young audiences. There have been two international editions so far. The play competition is an integral project in the policy of the Children’s Art Centre of Poznan and aims to inspire and promote contemporary playwriting
The Children’s Art Centre in Poznan (Poland)
The Children’s Art Centre has been operating since 1984 when the Minister of Art and Culture established in Poznan the National Centre of Art for Children and Young People as a cultural institution of a nationwide character. Its raison d’etre is to inspire the creation of professional art for children and young people, to promote new valuable artistic performances, to popularize and aid in the development of new methods of cultural awareness education. In 1999 the Centre changed its Statute and its name to the Children's Art Centre in Poznan
National New Play Network (USA)
The National New Play Network (NNPN) is the country’s leading alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays. NNPN strives to pioneer, implement and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has paid nearly a half million dollars to theaters and playwrights, providing employment for hundreds of artists across the country where NNPN’s 26 member theaters are located and beyond.
Plays for the Young Competition (NZ)
Playmarket is putting a special effort into gathering and co-ordinating the best of all plays that fall into this category, from adaptations of fairy tales for tiny children, to plays written by teachers especially for the classroom, to the most searing explorations of adolescence written by teenagers themselves - with no limits on length or cast size. They aim to encourage strong, original and inventive writing for young people both from those new to writing for the young, and the experienced.