Problem Solving Drama Project
PSDP
Lovelace Rahman Prize
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- Entries should be no longer than fifteen pages when written in a
standard format and font.
- The play will show the community playing a key role in supporting the
growth and development of its youth.
- The play need not be realistic; however, it should address a common
social ill.
- The conflict of the play must resolve, peacefully.
- All plays must be submitted via e-mail to jyounge@ccc.edu.
- The deadline for entries is December 13, 2009
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Calling all playwrights:
Enter a one act submission for the 2009
Lovelace/Rahman Award.
Winning entries respond to this year’s theme, “It Takes
a Village,” by illustrating the relationship between
parents and the community.
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Deadline for
entries:
December 13,
2009
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The Problem Solving Drama Project (PSDP) challenges playwrights to dramatize a persistent
problem and resolve it with a positive solution. The theme for the 2009 Lovelace/Rahman Award is:
“It Takes A Village." Winning entries will depict parenthood as a community responsibility.
Three finalists see their plays staged. The winner, selected by audience vote, garners the 2009
Annual Lovelace/Rahman Award.
The Lovelace/Rahman Award has showcased emerging playwrights, dramatizing such issues as
sisterhood, homelessness, segregation, and nihilism. Writers use the stage and the page to create
peaceful solutions to contemporary conflicts. Namesakes, Aishah Rahman, author of The Mojo and
The Sayso, and Earl Lovelace, author of the novel Salt, and creator of the film Joebell and America,
model the goals of the project in their own works. Rahman writes that the PSDP supports her
creative goal, to, “inspire young men and women…to recognize the beauty, universality, dignity in
their lives.”
Finalists will see their scripts staged in the Fourth Annual Problem Solving Theater project, in
February of 2010, and one play, selected by the audience, will win the Lovelace/Rahman Award.
E-mail Prof Jewel Sophia Younge, at jyounge@ccc.edu, for guidelines, entries, or more
information.
Congratulations to 2009-2010 WInners:
First Place:
Martel Wynn's "The Village Hidden in the Stone"
Second Place:
Johnny Lee Robinson's "The Blue Dragon"
Third Place:
Belena Redmond's "For Such a Time as This"
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