The Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship
photo by Susan Shaffer
Supported by a generous donation by award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the author of comic hits including Crazy for You and Lend Me a Tenor, this scholarship is based on a student playwright’s body of work. Writers submit a resume of their work, a nominating letter from a faculty sponsor, three scripts (one of which must be at least sixty minutes in length) and a cover sheet for each play.
The deadline for submission for this scholarship is February 1, 2014. All materials should be sent to the artistic director of the Kennedy Center ([email protected]) in PDF format.
Writers must be a current undergraduate or within two years after graduation with an undergraduate degree. Writers must be planning to attend a college or university theatre or writing program in the 2013-2014 academic year.
The individual must represent a school that has a KCACTF associate or participating entry in the 2013 Festival Year.
The deadline for submission for this scholarship is February 1, 2014. All materials should be sent to the artistic director of the Kennedy Center ([email protected]) in PDF format.
Writers must be a current undergraduate or within two years after graduation with an undergraduate degree. Writers must be planning to attend a college or university theatre or writing program in the 2013-2014 academic year.
The individual must represent a school that has a KCACTF associate or participating entry in the 2013 Festival Year.
Ken Ludwig
Ken Ludwig is an internationally-acclaimed playwright who has had six productions on Broadway and six in London’s West End. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards (three Tony Award nominations, two Helen Hayes Awards and the Edgar Award. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been performed in over thirty countries in at least twenty languages. Broadway and West End shows include Crazy For You, Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, Twentieth Century, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island. Other major plays include Shakespeare in Hollywood, Leading Ladies, Be My Baby, The Game’s Afoot, The Fox on the Fairway, and adaptations of The Beaux' Stratagem and The Three Musketeers. Over the years, his plays have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Mickey Rooney, Carol Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, Hal Holbrook and Frank Langella. His book, How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, will be published in 2012 by Crown Publishing. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theatre history at Cambridge University in England.
For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com.
For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com.
Previous Award Recipients2013 Rita Anderson, Texas State University - San Marcos
2012 Lupe Flores, Texas State University 2011 Gabriel J. Dean, University of Texas at Austin 2010 Walt McGough, Boston University 2009 Christian Krauspe, Arizona State University |