Endowed by alumnus, novelist, poet, and playwright A. E. Hotchner, this annual competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at Washington University.

ALL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE
TO ENTER THE COMPETITION!!!

 A.E. Hotchner

Photo:Eric Woolsey		 Highness
by Carolyn Kras
2007 Winner of the Competition
 
Competition Format for 2009
All selected plays will be workshopped over a two-week period with a guest dramaturg and director in Fall 2009. The workshop process will culminate in a public reading of each play during two nights of presentations. All plays selected will receive a cash award (Full lengths, $100; one-acts, $50; ten-minute, $25.).

The Performing Arts Department will produce a World Premiere play by a student writer(s) in the 2010-2011 season. That play will be selected from Hotchner submissions from the 2009 & 2010 A. E. Hotchner Competitions

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:

    1. Scripts must be unproduced and unpublished. Full-length plays, one acts and ten-minute plays ARE ELIGIBLE.
    2. Scripts must be typed and bound (no glue or spiral bindings please)
    3. Title page must include author contact information and email.
    4. Scripts must be turned into the Performing Arts Department Office, in Mallinckrodt 312, (2nd floor), by Friday, January 16, 2009 at 4pm.
    5. The winning playwrights will be announced in March 2009.
    6. Scripts will not be returned. No SASE necessary.
    7. For any further information call Carter W. Lewis, 935-5429.
Thank you.
Carter W. Lewis, Playwright-in-Residence. clewis@artsci.wustl.edu
COME SEE THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL!!
HOTCHNER FESTIVAL 2008
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
September 26 and 27

All Events are Free!
Six Seconds in Charlack
by Brian Golden
2005 Winner of the Competition
Photo:Eric Woolsey