The annual playwriting contest sponsored by Columbia College
Chicago Theater Center. Nationally acclaimed for recognizing
the outstanding individual accomplishments of African-American
playwrights, along with their growing importance to the shape
and direction of American drama in our time.

The goals of the contest are as follows:

-To uncover and identify new African-American plays addressing
  the African-American experience that are promising and producible.
-To encourage and aid playwrights in the development of promising
  scripts.
-To offer an opportunity for emerging and established
  playwrights of African-American descent to be exposed to Chicago's
 professional theater community through staged readings and/or
 fully mounted productions.

For more information on the submission process, prizes, and
deadlines please contact contest facilitator, Chuck Smith at
(312)344-6136.

http://www2.colum.edu/undergraduate/theater/workshops.php

Deadline: December, 1, 2008