CAREER RESOURCES – AWARDS AND CONTESTS
American Translators Association Student Translation Award
The mission of ATA is to benefit translators and interpreters by promoting recognition of their societal and commercial value, facilitating communication among all its members, establishing standards of competence and ethics, and educating both its members and the public.ATA awards grant-in-aid to students for literary or sci-tech translation or translation-related projects. Translations must be from a foreign language INTO ENGLISH. Award: $500, a certificate of recognition, and up to $500 toward expenses for attending ATA’s Annual Conference.
Website: http://www.atanet.org
ATDS Graduate Student Research/Travel Award
Purpose: To provide support for graduate student research in the field of United States theatre and drama (recognizing that notions of America and the US encompass migrations of peoples and cultures that overlap and influence one another). Funds may be requested to support travel related to archival research, ethnographic research, or travel to conferences to present research at an ATDS-sponsored panel.Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled in a graduate program in theatre/performance studies or related fields is eligible. Students need not be members of ATDS to apply. Please note that the applicant must still be in graduate school during the proposed time of use for the award.Award: $400.00 + a one year membership to ATDS
Website: http://www.atds.org/
American Comparative Literature Association – A. Owen Aldridge Prize
Comparative Literature Studies, published at the Pennsylvania State University Press, announces that it will publish an annual prize-paper written by a graduate student. The competition is named in honor of A. Owen Aldridge, founder of CLS. The purpose of this competition is to encourage and recognize excellence in scholarship among graduate students and to reward the highest achievement by publication. This project is sponsored by CLS in cooperation with the American Comparative Literature Association and supported by the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State. The award carries a monetary prize as well, including an honorarium and help with travel expenses to attend the 2012 ACLA meeting. Graduate students in a comparative literature department or program are encouraged to submit a polished paper in English, approximately 15 -20 pages long (double-spaced), preferably following Chicago endnote style (MLA-style papers will be accepted, but, must be converted for publication) and prepared for anonymous evaluation. Further information on the Aldridge prize may be found on the Comparative Literature Studies’ Aldridge prize competition page.
Website: http://www.acla.org/aldridge.html
American Comparative Literature Association – Horst Frenz Prize
The Horst Frenz Prize is awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the ACLA. The Horst Frenz Prize consists of a $300 Amazon.com book coupon, complimentary registration and a complimentary ticket to the banquet, and a travel reimbursement grant of up to $300 to attend the following year’s ACLA Conference to receive the award in person, as well as publication of the paper in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. The Frenz Prize judges are convened by the Vice-President of the Association, who chairs the committee. Nominations of papers are encouraged from all ACLA members who participated in the annual meeting.
Website: http://www.acla.org/frenz.html
American Comparative Literature Association – Presidential Undergraduate Prize
In support of its mission to promote the discipline of comparative literature, the American Comparative Literature Association is proud to announce the establishment of two new prizes recognizing student accomplishment in comparative literary study. The President’s Awards for Best Master’s Thesis and for Best Undergraduate Essay on a Comparative Topic together honor comparative work broadly construed at these important stages of educational achievement. Work will be judged based on theoretical rigor, comparative breadth, and lucidity of exposition. Though not a formal requirement, especially for the Undergraduate essay prize, work that engages in comparison across linguistic boundaries will be especially valued by the committee. The Presidential Undergraduate Prize goes to the best substantial essay nominated by a department or program that is an Institutional Member of the ACLA. Each institutional member may nominate one student in the field of comparative literature, identified as the best without regard to actual departmental affiliation. The prize carries an award of $250 and a certificate, as well as complimentary registration, and a complimentary ticket to the banquet to facilitate the recipient attending the annual conference.
Website: http://www.acla.org/presidentialundergraduate.html
American Comparative Literature Association – Charles Bernheimer Prize
The Bernheimer Prize goes to the best dissertation nominated by a department or program that is an Institutional Member of the ACLA. The dissertation must be completed by July 1, 2011. Each institutional member may nominate one dissertation in the field of comparative literature, identified as the best without regard to actual departmental affiliation. The prize carries an award of $1,000 and a certificate, as well as complimentary registration, complimentary ticket to the banquet and a travel grant of $300 to facilitate the recipient attending the 2012 conference.
Website: http://www.acla.org/bernheimer.html
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Awards
Database of Awards, Scholarships, Internships and Fellowships in Playwriting, Design, Musical Theatre, Education, Acting and Dramaturgy.
Website: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/awards.html
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – The Institute for Theatre Journalism & Advocacy Scholarship
The KCACTF sponsors workshops in each region called the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy (ITJA). Once called the National Critics Institute, the newly envisioned ITJA was established to assist in elevating the level of arts criticism and to provide writers the opportunity to grow at the same pace as the artists, whose work they review and interpret. Like the Critics Institute before it, it works to train good writers, but ITJA does more. Criticism, especially with the advent of technology, has changed radically, and the remounting of the ITJA reflects that. Critics from the regional institutes who are fortunate enough to study at the O’Neill National Critics Institute, for example, rarely explore just criticism as a field. Instead, they seek work in all aspects of theatre. While a few head to graduate schools in criticism and many work as journalists, just as many become dramaturgs, art administrators, public relation/marketing specialists, and writers of plays and screenplays, among other jobs. Those who do become critics rarely work using over night deadlines, and most of the writing is sent electronically. Many graduates from the old Critics Institute are now working in radio and television, orally expressing their opinions using sound clips from the plays or movies they are reviewing.
Website: http://web.kennedy-center.org/education/kcactf/awards/TheaterJournalism#main_content
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – The LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award
This award is designed to recognize contributions by student dramaturgs to the conception, development and production of theater within their colleges and universities,or to educational projects in dramaturgy. The philosophical foundation of this award – like that of dramaturgy itself – rests in the belief that art benefits from examinationon the parts of both artist and audience, and that creative inspiration accompaniedby analysis and reflection is most likely to lead to productions and projects that fulfill the spiritual, social and personal potential of the theatrical event. Also inherent in the guidelines is the belief that the dramaturg should participate fully and uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around the theatrical event.
This award is the result of a unique collaboration between Literary Managers andDramaturgs of the Americas, the professional association of dramaturgs and literary managers working in North America, and the American College Theatre Festival. Eachregional nominee will receive a student membership in LMDA. The national winner will receive a full fellowship to attend the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference as a Literary Assistant and Assistant Dramaturg.
National Website: http://web.kennedy-center.org/education/kcactf/awards/dramaturgy#main_content
Region I Website: http://www.kcactf1.org/dramaturgy.html
KCACTF ATHE Dramaturgy Program Notes Regional Award
This event is for all student dramaturgs who wrote notes for either a participating or associate entry during this festival year (January-December 2010). Please submit an original production program and attach a cover page including complete contact information for the dramaturg and the title of the production. Include 3 copies of the dramaturgy notes and send to the address below.
Website: http://www.kcactf1.org/dramaturgy.html
KCACTF Undergraduate Theatre Scholar Award
KCACTF is pleased to announce a new awards program for undergraduate theatre scholars attending KCACTF participating institutions. In order to further student activity in the discipline of scholarship, this program will encourage and reward research and scholarly writing among undergraduates throughout the nation. Research Papers on all areas of the art and craft of Theatre, the outcome of class assignments or students’ own research interests, will be reviewed by KCACTF appointed readers for cash awards, KCACTF National Festival residencies and professional development opportunities.
Website: http://web.kennedy-center.org/education/kcactf/awards/UndergraduateTheatre#main_content
Leighton M. Ballew Directing Award
The amount of the award is $3,300, awarded to an undergraduate student who has been accepted into a graduate program in directing.
Website: http://www.setc.org/scholarship/ballew.php
The National Drama Therapy Student Service Award
The NADT Student Service Award is given to recognize a student member of NADT who has volunteered substantial time and effort serving the association, the student members of NADT, and/or students of drama therapy at large on a project or series of projects in the past year. The purpose of this award is to demonstrate to students that the association values their contributions to the field, for they are the future of drama therapy.
Website: http://www.nadt.org/nadtawards.htm
Norman Mailer College Writing Awards
Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award. The awards are for excellence in creative nonfiction which is truth/fact-based writing with literary merit, work that features authorial voice and, often, personal experience, and often has a significant narrative quality. The competition is broadly inclusive of genres and subgenres that fall under creative nonfiction: memoirs, personal essays, literary journalism, artful writings about place, environment, travel, people, etc. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit.
Website: http://www.ncte.org/awards/student/nmwa
Philip Parsons Student Prize for Performance as Research – The Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies
ADSA invites entries for the Philip Parsons Prize for Performance as Research. ADSA was formed in 1977 at the instigation of the late Dr Philip Parsons, senior lecturer in drama at the University of New South Wales. To commemorate his lifelong interest in making connections between theatre scholarship and the professional stage, ADSA has established an annual Philip Parsons Prize for a senior student (third year, honours or postgraduate) undertaking a Performance As Research (PAR) project. The Prize consists of a $400 financial award. Winning entrants will also have their work featured on the ADSA website. The winning entrant will be announced at the annual ADSA conference in June.
Website: http://www.adsa.edu.au/prizes/philip-parsons-prize
Southeastern Theatre Conference Young Scholar’s Award
We invite submissions from graduate students and undergraduate students enrolled in programs relating to our committee interest areas of history, theory, criticism, and literature. One graduate and one undergraduate paper will be chosen to win $225 cash prizes, a ticket to the States Luncheon, and to present their winning papers at the SETC conference in Chattanooga, TN.
Website: http://www.setc.org/interest/history.php#scholarAward
StageSource Scholarship Awards
StageSource will present scholarships for $500 each plus one-year memberships to college/university students in his/her junior year and to graduating high school students with a demonstrated commitment and interest in theatre. Additionally, StageSource is honored to make available the Jack Welch Scholarship Award, named for one of the founding board members of StageSource. The Welch Scholarship will be made available to an aspiring college or high school student pursuing playwriting. All scholarship awards will be based on merit and reviewed by a committee of theatre professionals appointed by StageSource. The number of scholarships to be awarded will be determined in the spring. Historically, StageSource has awarded four to five scholarships each year and has presented four to five students each year with an Honorable Mention designation, which includes a one-year membership to StageSource. Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment and interest in theatre. All scholarship awards will be based on merit and reviewed by a committee appointed by StageSource.
Website: http://www.stagesource.org/programs-and-events/education-initiative-and-scholarships/
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award
NEW scholarship award for college seniors or recent graduates specifically in the visual arts, performing arts, and creative writing. The JKCF will award up to 20 awards next year, for as much as $50,000 annually each, to support new graduate students in these three graduate program areas. Applicants must have financial need, low income, and have significant educational expenses to meet. Students can only be nominated by their undergraduate institution. Students must begin their first graduate degree program this coming fall. Students already in a graduate program are not eligible. The award provides funding for tuition, room and board, required fees, and books. Scholarships amounts vary based on several factors, including costs at the institution each recipient attends and other grants and scholarships the student receives.
Website: http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/jack-kent-cooke-graduate-arts-award/
TDR’s Annual Student Essay Contest
Prize: $500 and publication in TDR (along with a profile of the winner’s department)
TDR—the journal of performance studies—is a forum for writing about performances in their aesthetic, historical, social, economic, political, and theoretical contexts. Edited by Richard Schechner and Associate Editor Mariellen R. Sandford, TDR covers performance in everyday life, rituals, media, dance, theatre, performance art, popular entertainments, and sports—emphasizing the experimental, the anthropological, the intercultural, and the interdisciplinary. Long known as the basic resource for contemporary performing arts and performance theory, TDR’s editors and authors vibrantly present and debate work from every medium, setting, and culture.
Website: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/tdrwriter
S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition
The Black Theatre Network is seeking papers from students at the Undergraduate and Graduate level that are concerned with an aspect of Black Theatre. Entrants do not need to be members of the Black Theatre Network to submit. Papers must be received no later than April 15 & should be sent via e-mail to: avgreen@wm.edu This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Winners will be announced by May 2, 2011 and will be invited to deliver their papers at the 2011 Black Theatre Network Conference in North Carolina to be held July 30-August 1.Winners will be announced by May 2, 2011 and will be invited to deliver their papers at the 2011 Black Theatre Network Conference in North Carolina to be held July 30-August 1.
Website: http://www.blacktheatrenetwork.org
USITT Awards
USITT offers a variety of awards in areas of theatre design and technology.
Website: http://www.usitt.org/Awards.aspx
USITT Ideal Theatre Project Competition
The Architectural and Theatre Students “Ideal Theatre” Design Competition requires teamwork. Theatre students serve the role of “the Client” and architectural students function as “the Designer” to create their university’s “Ideal Theatre.”
Website: http://www.usitt.org/studentarchitecture.aspx
University Language Service Photo Contest
If you have studied abroad or have chosen a study abroad program that you’ll be embarking on, ULS wants to know what made you want to study in that country. You could win a $500 scholarship just for sharing a photo with us! Submit a photo you’ve taken, along with a 200-word description of why that photo illustrates your inspiration for studying abroad. The photo can be of anything – be creative!
Website: http://www.universitylanguage.com/scholarships/competition
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest
Ayn Rand’s novels are inspiring and intellectually challenging. But they can also be financially rewarding for high school and college students. The Ayn Rand Institute sponsors annual essay contests that offer 680 prizes and over $99,000 in prize money every year. For details, choose from the subjects shown on the left.
Websites: http://aynrandnovels.com/essay-contests.html
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The Tom Behm Award
The Tom Behm Award will provide professional development funds to people working in the Theatre for Youth field. Tom Behm was a founder of SETC’s Theatre for Youth Festival and served as a Board Member and Theatre for Youth Division Chairman He is Professor Emeritus from UNC Greensboro where he taught and directed for 34 years and founded the professional
NC Theatre for Young People Touring Company. He is a published playwright and was active in all areas of theatre for youth nationally and internationally.
Website: http://www.setc.org/tom-behm-scholarship
The Sarah Spencer Child Drama Award
The Sarah Spencer Child Drama Award recognizes the work of an individual or organization for dynamic and engaging work for young people. Nominees can excel in such areas as playwriting, performance, audience development, curriculum development, funding, scholarship, community programs, research, television programming, creative drama or other enrichment programs within their community, state, regional or national level.
Website: http://www.setc.org/sara-spencer-child-drama-award-awards
Young Scholar’s Award
We invite submissions in all topics related to the broad categories of history, theory, criticism, and literature from graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in programs. One graduate and one undergraduate paper will be chosen for presentation at the SETC annual convention. Winning authors will receive a $225 cash prize, free conference registration, free SETC membership for one year, and a ticket to the States Luncheon. Winners must present their paper at 2015 Young Scholars Panel held during the convention in order to collect prizes. If a winning author cannot attend, then an alternate winner will be selected.
Website: http://www.setc.org/young-scholars-award-awards
Hope College Distinguished Artist Awards – Theatre
Up to 60 Distinguished Artist Award (DAA) scholarships are given to students with strong academic records and outstanding creative abilities in art, dance, music, theatre or creative writing. Renewable for four years, the DAA’s provide eligible students with $2,500 each year toward their college costs. DAA recipients also take part in a variety of opportunities set up to increase their creative experience and technical knowledge in their chosen field.