Francesca Primus Prize Contest Name: Deadline: (for ongoing submissions, enter 1/1/3000) Contact Website: Accept Musicals?: Unknown Yes No Accept Plays?: Unknown Yes No Accept Young Audiences?: Unknown Yes No Accept Edgy Material?: Unknown Yes No Accept Radio/Film/TV Scripts?: Unknown Yes No Categories Award Cash Conference Fellowship Festival Production Reading Residency Song Contest Workshop Length Full-length Full-length One-act One-act Short -- Parent -- Contest Tags Description: Visual Text <div>The American Theatre Critics Association’s Francesca Primus Prize is an annual $10,000 award honoring outstanding contribuitions to the American theater by an emerging female playwright, one who has not yet achieved national prominance.</div> <div></div> <div>The Primus Prize operates on an open submission basis – an applicant may submit herself or be nominated by another individual or organization. Members of ATCA are eligible to nominate or provide letters of recommendation.</div> <div> To qualify for consideration in 2020-21 (see note below), a playwright must have had a fully staged, professional production of her script within the calendar years 2018 and 2019. The committee also considers a body of work going back several years. </div> Contact Name - FIRST: LAST: Contact Title: Contact Email: Contact Phone: Contact Address1: Contact Address2: Contact City: Contact State: Contact Zip: Contact Country: Comments from NMI Staff: Visual Text <strong>Due to the pandemic, prize years 2020 and 2021 (covering plays that premiered in 2019 and 2020) have been conflated, with an application deadline of November 1, 2021.</strong> Plays already submitted for 2020 are automatically included. They still have not updated their website as of 1/30/23
