STAGE International Script Competition

The Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara continue their collaboration with the fourth STAGE International Script Competition, open to plays about science and technology.

The winning script will receive a prize of $10,000 at a public awards event with distinguished professionals from the worlds of theatre, film, science, and technology, to be held in conjunction with a staged reading/performance/demonstration with a cast of professional actors.

• Submitted plays must explore scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues, and events.
• Science and/or technology must figure prominently in the script, whether in form or content or both.
• Biographical dramas, history plays, and medical dramas are discouraged unless they significantly employ science and/or technology.
• Authors are strongly urged to avoid the stereotypes often assigned to science, technology, and those who engage in these disciplines.
• This competition is not open to plays written in the genre of science fiction.

Deadline: December 15, 2009

Entries will be accepted on or after June 15 2009.

To find out more and apply, visit the STAGE website.