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In accepting the position, Mr. Guare remarked:
“In a few short years, the Yale Drama Series has asserted itself as the preeminent playwriting contest in the English speaking world. This annual event has become a playwright’s dream…
Are there guidelines? What are we looking for? Diaghilev said it best. When Jean Cocteau asked the great impresario what he wanted, Diaghilev simply replied ‘Astonish me’. Don’t worry. Sometimes the simplest truths can be the most astonishing. And then again – not. The Foundation and Yale’s goal is to uncover and give new voices to the theater. We welcome all entries to this celebration of the playwright.”
The winner of the Yale Drama Series – given annually to an emerging playwright — is awarded a prize of $10,000, publication of the play by the Yale University Press, and a reading at the Yale Repertory Theatre. The David C. Horn Foundation funds the annual international playwriting competition.
Submissions for the 2011 Yale Drama Series competition must be postmarked no earlier than June 1, 2010 and no later than August 15, 2010. The competition is open to any original, unpublished, and unproduced full-length play in English. For complete contest rules, please visit www.dchornfoundation.org/.
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