The Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy
This institute offers a scholarship for an outstanding student critic to work along with professional theatre critics and arts writers at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, each summer. At each KCACTF Regional Festival, nominated students from participating schools will be asked to write critiques of a selected number of plays. One finalist will be selected from each of the eight regions to compete at the national level. The national winner will attend the Eugene O’Neill Center during the national writing conference in July, and work with leading professional newspaper and magazine critics from across the United States. All expenses will be paid.
Throughout the week of the festival, these student critics will be asked to attend shows and write critiques in traditional forms as well as emerging forms of journalism such as blogs. They will be writing within a deadline that replicates the time constraints under which critics often write. As part of their experience at the festival, the group of critics will participate in seminars.
Workshop Part I
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Val A. Browning Center Room 322
Thursday, February 9
Workshop Part II
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Val A. Browning Center Room 322
Friday, February 10
Workshop Part III
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Val A. Browning Center Room 322
Critics Institute Respondent: Dave Mortensen & Russell T. Warne
Festival Critics Workshop Coordinators: Kari Sayers