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Rules for Participation

Participation Form

 
The Ruby Griffith Award Competition

updated as of April, 2003 (reviewed July, 2005)

The British Players invite the participation of amateur theatre groups in the annual competition, sponsored and administered by the Players each theatre season. The Competition, named in memory of a former British Players’ producer, is designed to elevate the quality of local amateur theatre and reward excellence and outstanding achievement. The Competition is open to all area theatre groups fulfilling the following requirements:

The theatre group must have amateur status, have been established for at least 24 months and must have staged a minimum of three full-scale productions.
The theatre group cannot belong to, or be affiliated with, a drama school or the drama or speech department of any college or university.
A group may enter only one full-length production per season. This entry must be classified as a musical or non-musical. The competition season runs June 1 through May 31.
Name, place and dates of the production must be provided at least two weeks prior to opening. No entry will be accepted after the production has opened.
An entrant group must provide two complimentary seats for each of the three adjudicators. (a total of six complimentary seats)
To facilitate the scheduling of adjudicators, all alternate performance dates are requested.
An entry fee of $20 must accompany the entry form. This fee helps to defray the costs of administering the competition.
The Administrator retains the right to disqualify any group at any time if a production is discovered to be ineligible for the competition. The group in question will be notified of the specific reason and the entry fee will be refunded.
The judging and tabulating of the results will be undertaken by a panel of adjudicators specially trained and appointed from within the membership of The British Players.
A list of the entrants and productions will be available to all participating groups (provided at the award ceremony).
The British Players are ineligible for the competition.

After the close of the season an awards ceremony will be held at which time the awards will be announced. For security reasons, the time and date of the ceremony are not publicly announced and all attendance at the ceremony is by ticketed invitation.  In addition, every competing group will be mailed a composite critique of their entered production, drawn from the individual critiques written by the adjudicators.

There are three Ruby Griffith Awards - The Ruby Griffith Award for All Round Production Excellence, The Ruby Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Non-Musical and The Ruby Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Musical. The Outstanding Achievement Awards also include certificates for two runners-up.

The Ruby Griffith Awards Program Entry Form can now be completed online!

 

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Last modified: 02/12/06