Dramaturgy award Emanuele Carboni
To honor the memory of its member Emanuele Carboni, actor and playwright who passed away prematurely in June 2016 at the age of 36, the cultural association Music Theatre International – M.Th.I. ETS, in collaboration with the associations Laboratori Permanenti, Vitamina T and KIT Italia, with the patronage of SIAE – Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori, is announcing the fourth edition of the Emanuele Carboni Award.
The award, which aims to enhancing the young Italian dramaturgy, is open to young Italian authors (resident in Italy or abroad) interested in writing text for theatre and who have not yet turned 40 years at the date of 31 December 2025.
The choice of the theme is free and at the discretion of the author, who can also include subjects imbued with real and fantastic or supernatural and, through the treatment, have the strength to express universal themes capable of highlighting the most hidden aspects of the human soul, without excluding the comic, ironic or grotesque aspect.
The genre can be serious or facetious and the author can choose the most congenial form of writing: prose or verse.
The award ceremony will take place in Rome in December 2025 and the text will be presented to the public in the form of a reading.
Applications for participation must be received (via certified email or mail) at the M.Th.I. secretariat by July 15, 2025.
The winner will be awarded a prize of € 1,500.00. The award ceremony will take place in Rome in December 2025 and the text will be presented to the public in the form of a reading.
Jury members: Tomaso Thellung TIT - The International Theatre, Lorenzo Acquaviva Vitamina T, Donatella Codonesu KIT Italia, Patrizia La Fonte, Caterina Casini Laboratori Permanenti.
Complete rules and participation forms 1 and 2 are available below at: "download locandina"
