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First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100

How to Apply:

Any student who is in the eleventh grade during the 2012-13 academic year is eligible for the Princeton University Ten-Minute Play Prize. Applicants may submit only one play – 10 pages maximum/one page equals one minute.

We encourage you to send your entries by email to jfonseca@princeton.edu with ten-minute play in the subject line by March 31, 2013.

Submissions may be mailed and postmarked by March 31, 2013 and addressed to:
Princeton Ten-Minute Play Contest-ATT : Joe Fonseca
Princeton University
Program in Theater/Lewis Center for the Arts
185 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542

Please include your name, address, phone number, and email.
We also need the name, address, phone number, and email of your school guidance office.

Unfortunately, we cannot acknowledge receipt of submissions or provide critical feedback. Entries are not returnable. Due to the volume of entries, only the winners will be notified. Results will be posted on the Lewis Center for the Arts website at princeton.edu/arts by June 3, 2013.

The jury will consist of members of the Princeton University 2012-2013 Theater faculty. 

Michael Cadden, Chair Tim Vasen, Director Warren Adams Suzanne Agins Tracy Bersley David Binder† Jane Cox Jill Dolan Rinde Eckert Brian Herrera Robert Kaplowitz	James Magruder‡ Erica Nagel Mark Nelson Fintan O’Toole * John Rando Robert N. Sandberg Kate Whoriskey Stacy Wolf, on sabbatical Anita Yavich
† Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies	‡ Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Theater * Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer

 

 

2012 Recipients:

First Place: Kathleen Cole, Thirst
Mauldin, SC

Second Place: Isaac Dwyer, Cupcakes
Idyllwild, CA

Third Place: Bianca Hunter, Hooked
Kalispell, MT

2012 Honorable Mention:

Nathan Engel, This is How the Moslems Feel
San Antonio, TX