BTN 2025 Convening
Save The Date for the 2025 Convening
NEW! Conference Registration
NEW!Book your room for the 2024 Convening at the following hotels below (please note when preferred rates end):
The Historic Brookstown Inn, Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Rates are available until the conference begins
Fairfield Inn & Suites Winston-Salem Downtown
Rates end Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Hampton Inn & Suites Winston-Salem Downtown
Rates end June 10, 2024
Kimpton: Cardinal Hotel
Rates end June 25, 2024
Residence Inn Winston-Salem Hanes Mall
Rates end July 1, 2024
For questions about the conference, please send a message to: business@blacktheatrenetwork.org
The Black Theatre Network Fourth Annual StudentQuest Monologue Competition.
Submission Deadline: Extended to May 31, 2024.
The Black Theatre Network (BTN) presents its Fourth Annual “StudentQuest Monologue Competition.” The competition is a part of BTN’s 38th Annual Conference: “Centering Blackness: Nurturing the Creative Spirt,” in Winston-Salem, NC July 26-29, 2024. The StudentQuest Monologue Competition is part of BTN’s StudentQuest Competition Series, which also includes the Judy Dearing Design Award (in multiple areas of design) and the S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition. Information on all these categories can be found at blacktheatrenetwork.org.
The StudentQuest Monologue Competition offers young actors a platform that showcases their talent, enhances their performance skills, and fosters a spirit of collaboration. Additionally, it will nurture new, excellent, and visionary theatre professionals.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The competition is open to all individuals between the ages of 17-24 who identify as Black/African American or who are from the African Diaspora. Participants will submit be accepting any monologues from the plays of August Wilson.
Entries must follow the submission requirements below.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Call For Submissions
Click the links below to enter competitions or to get involved.
What Our Members Say About The Conference
BTN Conferences Are Our Annual Black Theatre Family Reunion!
BTN CONFERENCES are annual conferences which serve as a national forum for the exchange of ideas between professionals, educators and students of Black Theatre. In even-numbered years, BTN hosts larger conferences in locations across the country, giving voice and representation to Black Theatre in each city we visit. These conferences immediately precede the National Black Theatre Festival, where BTN co-sponsors the International Colloquium with NBTF.
Conference themes are recommended by our members and selected by the Vice President of the BTN Executive Board. The Winona Lee Fletcher and Lifetime Membership awards and honors bestowed upon Black Theatre leaders are chosen by BTN’s President, with approval of the Executive Board.
