Every other year, Theatre UAB seeks new and original plays confronting racial or ethnic issues, especially those calling for ethnically diverse and/or multi-racial casting. We are especially interested in full-length dramas or comedies that could be produced as part of our regular season (that is, that could be performed by a diverse and talented group of college students).
  • 2005 Winner: The Poetry of Pizza by Deborah Brevoort
  • 2007 Winner: Valu-Mart by Sean O'Leary
All manuscripts should be submitted to this address:

The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Play Search
Theatre UAB ASC 255
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham AL 35294-1263

The Apsey Award is a $1000 prize plus a staged reading at Theatre UAB and the possibility of a fully-mounted production. Previously-produced and unproduced scripts are equally welcome.

This is a biennial contest. The next submission period will begin September 1, 2008 and end on December 5th, 2008.

We prefer hard-copy submissions, but we do accept electronic submissions as well. Send your script as a PDF or Word file -- to us via the address leeshack@uab.edu -- and please consolidate your entire submission (title page with full contact information, synopsis, character and scene list, and complete script) into ONE FILE ONLY. Scripts submitted as multiple files run a very high risk of being lost.

Any submission questions not answered here? Write to us.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre
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