OUTSIDE AWARD: Collaboration Award
FROM: The New York Coalition for Professional Women in Arts and Media
Call for entries for the 2008 Collaboration Award
The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media (NYCWAM) will present the second biennial Collaboration Award recognizing Women Working with Women.
The $1000 award aims to encourage professional women in the arts and media to work collaboratively with other women on the creation of new works. Eligible teams are those who have completed a work, are readying a new work, or are continuing a work in progress.
Applicants may suggest any form of creative collaboration. Submissions will be judged on the basis of artistic excellence and clarity of the proposal, with special attention given to those proposals involving more than one discipline and which reflect the goals of the Coalition: to advance women and women’s issues. The team that has been selected, plus two runners up, will be invited to present a portion of their work at an awards ceremony in New York in October 2008. Women outside of New York may send a designee to present their project. NYCWAM does not pay for travel expenses.
Teams of two or more women working together on a creative project may apply for a Collaboration Award. Applicants must be members in good standing of an organization with full membership in NYCWAM. Those organizations are: Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, New York Women in Film & Television, Screen Actors Guild, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and Writers Guild of America, East.
Funding for the 2008 Collaboration Award has been provided by playwright, Elsa Rael, and by Back Stage editor, Sherry Eaker. The first Collaboration Award was presented in 2006 to playwright Jennifer Maisel and director Wendy McClellan for their play BIRDS.
Applications may be downloaded from the NYCWAM website: www.nycwam.org
or by mail by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media
P.O. Box 2537
Times Square Station
New York, NY 10108
Completed Applications must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.
For further information after reviewing guidelines and application contact:
Deborah Savadge
Phone: 212-592-4511 or 212-595-2582
E-Mail: Collaboration@NYCWAM.org
