Now may be the time to write that play you’ve been carrying around in your head all these years. The University of California, Santa Barbara, is hosting an international competition for scripts about science and technology.
UCSB’s Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute launched the competition. Lab founder and director Nancy Kawalek says, “Our goal is to cultivate appreciation and collaboration between science and the arts, develop art that depicts the technological age in which we live, and foster new, imaginative voices and methods of storytelling.”
The winner will receive $10 000, a staged reading of the script with a cast of professional actors, and access to scientific and theater-related advice. Submissions must be postmarked by 15 December 2005. For more information, visit http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage.
