BEVERLY HILLS MARILYN
HALL AWARDS COMPETITION FOR
CHILDREN'S THEATRE (CA)
Date: 02-28-08 (Postmarked by)
Material: Children's plays (45-75min's)
1. The Marilyn Hall Awards consist of two (2)
monetary prizes for plays suitable for grades
6-8 (middle school) or for plays suitable for
grades 9-12 (high school). The three prizes will
be awarded on the merits of the play scripts,
which includes its suitability for the intended
audience. The plays should be approximately 45
to 75 minutes in length. There is no production
connected to any of the prizes, though a staged
reading is optional at the discretion of the BHTG.
2. Authors must be U.S. Citizens or legal
residents. Co-Authorships are permissible.
3. The plays must be written in Standard
American English. Slang, jargon, and regional
dialects, etc., may be used only to establish
necessary characterization.
4. Authors may enter up to two (2) scripts in the
Play Competition for Youth Theatre.
5. Entries must be unpublished, theatrical works
written for the living stage and suitable for the
grades designated. Play scripts may have had
one (1) non-professional or educational theatre
production. But the play may not have been
produced on a professional level for which
authors, actors or staff were paid.
6. Entries may be original plays, adaptations
and/or translations. Authors of adaptations and/
or translations of works that are under current
copyright must provide (upon request) proof of
permission from the copyright holder(s) or their
legal agents to use such works.
7. Plays shorter than approximately 45 minutes
are not eligible; musicals are not eligible; and
plays entered in previous BHTG Competitions are
not eligible. (Please note: plays with music, i.e.
plays with an occasional interpolated song, are
eligible: works that are designated as musicals are
not.)
8. Submissions received with postmarks BEFORE January 15th or AFTER the last day of February
of the contest year will not be accepted, read or
returned. Authors will be notified of ineligible
submission and the reasons why.
9. Submissions in noncompliance of these Rules
and the Submission Procedures will be ineligible.
10. BHTG has the right to accept or reject any
entry without explanation, and will not correspond
with, or discuss with, any person the results of the
competition, or the acceptance or rejection of any
entry.
11. The competition judges' decisions are final in
all respects.
12. BHTG has the following rights which it may
exercise at its sole discretion:
a. To declare any entry ineligible if prior to
Competition's close (June 1) the entry is in
violation of rule #6. Authors must notify the
BHTG of any change in status.
b. To reproduce as many copies of an entry as are
necessary for distribution among the judges.
c. To use the author's name and title of any
entry receiving an award for publicity about
this Playwright Award and the results of the
competition.
d. To present one script-in-hand, rehearsed
readings of an award winning entry to an invited,
nonpaying audience. No royalty payment will be
due to the entry's author for these readings.
13. Each award winner will, at all times, in
connection with publications, production,
publicity, advertisements, etc. about the award
winning entry, designate that the play is an "Award
Winner of The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Youth
Theatre Competition."
14. Each entry will be free from copyright
restrictions relating to this Award, and the author
will hold the BHTG, its officers, and directors
free and harmless from all copyright claims and
violations.
15. The BHTG is not a producing organization. No
production is connected with the competition nor
any prize awarded.
16. Sorry, the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild -
Youth Theatre Competition does not sponsor
scholarships, fellowships, educational grants, or
loans to students or private individuals. Nor does
the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild as an organization.
Submission Procedures
1. Each entry must be accompanied by an
individual, completed application/entry form.
Application forms may be duplicated as necessary.
Application forms and Competition rules and
Submission Procedures may be obtained by
sending #10 business-sized SASE to the address
below.
2. Each author must personally sign the
application. Entries must be legible and signature
clearly the name of the writer(s). The author(s)
must sign the entry form. Proxy or agent
signatures are not accepted and will lead to
disqualification.
3. Bind your entry securely and include a title
page with the name of the play, whether it is
an "original" or an adaptation/translation from
another work, and, if desired, copyright or
registration information and date (instead of the
author's name, please use "by the author.") On
the second page list all characters, time, place,
number of acts and scenes, and any other pertinent
information such as whether the scripts make use
of special effects, e.g., puppetry. Scripts must be
bound. A clip holding pages together unfortunately
doesn't constitute being "bound". (This is insisted
upon for the protection of the script and benefit
of the writer. Loose scripts may have pages
become misplaced or lost. The competition is not
responsible for loss or damage to entries or parts
thereof.)
4. Do not show your name, address or any
identifying information on any page of your
entry. Attach with a removable paper clip, a sheet
containing the title of your entry, your name,
address, phone number and any other information.
5. To preserve anonymity, all entries will be
identified by numbers for judging. All identifying
marks will be removed.
6. Submissions will not be returned. This includes
either eligible or ineligible submissions. Enclose
with your submission a #10 business-sized SASE
for our response.
7. You may enclose a self-addressed stamped
postcard for acknowledgment of receipt of your
entry. Competition winners to be announced on
our web site in June.
8. The BHTG is not responsible for loss or damage
to entries.
9. No script will be accepted by fax or e-mail. No
electronic submissions or correspondence.
10. No entry is returned.
Address All Inquiries and Submissions To:
Candace Coster, Competition Coordinator
Play Competition for Youth Theatre
P.O. Box 148
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
Application:http://www.beverlyhillstheatreguild.
org/youth_application.html
