THE JANE CHAMBERS AWARD recognizes new plays and performance texts created by women writers which present a feminist perspective and that provide significant opportunities for female performers. This annual award, founded in 1984, welcomes experimentations in form and in subject matter. It is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers, who through her plays such as A Late Snow, My Blue Heaven, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, and Kudzu became a major feminist voice in American theater. Sponsored by the Women and Theatre Program with the Association for Theater in Higher Education, the contest understands feminism to cross an array of class, sex, race, national, ethnic, theatrical, and/or geographic perspectives. The Jane Chambers Contest winner receives $1000 and a rehearsed reading at ATHE’s annual summer conference, where she is recognized at ATHE's Awards Ceremony.

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Read more about Jane Chambers and her work at JaneChambers.org.

The 2020 contest is currently accepting submissions! Please find more information on the contest website. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2020.

Contact our Jane Chambers coordinators Jennifer-Scott Mobley and Maya Roth with questions.

2020 Winner

WTP is pleased to announce the 2019 Jane Chambers Contest winner: How We Survived, by Pauline David-Sax. 

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Runners Up: 

Down in the Holler by Val Dunn​

Nicole Clark is Having a Baby by Morgan Gould

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Honorable Mention: 

Catch by Lara Miller

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Curation notes forthcoming.