Competition is open to qualified students enrolled in any school or college of the University. Entrants must, however, be enrolled in a designated writing course elected through the Department of English Language and Literature, Residential College, the Program in Film and Video Studies, or the Department of Theatre. The Leonard and Eileen Newman Prize for Dramatic Writing. Prerequisites to the concentration. 280, Introduction to Drama and Theater, and Film and Video Studies 200, Introduction to Film, Video, and Television Production.
Application is selective.
It should be made to the concentration through submission of the student's writing portfolio, with a letter of application and copies of course transcripts. Directing II English 327. Playwriting II Film and Video 310. The Honors Program in Dramatic Writing is open to seniors who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher in their University courses and who have demonstrated both the interest and capacity to carry out the independent work required to complete an Honors thesis during their senior year. Applications should be made by Spring of the junior year.