The Lewis Center Ten-Minute Play Contest is a prestigious annual playwriting competition hosted by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, open exclusively to 11th-grade students across the United States. Participants submit original plays of up to ten pages, which are evaluated by a rotating panel of acclaimed professional playwrights. With a maximum of 250 entries accepted each year, this highly selective and free competition is one of the most distinguished opportunities available to young playwrights.
Crafting original stories, poems, or scripts that express ideas and imagination.
Evaluating information carefully before drawing a conclusion or making a decision.
Breaking down a challenge and working through it methodically to a solution.
Writing to convince a reader of a position using evidence and logic.
Students develop original dramatic narratives, directly building the craft of playwriting and storytelling.
Playwriting skills translate to scriptwriting and narrative structure used in film and video production.
Crafting compelling narratives and persuasive writing are core to effective public communications.
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