DRAMATURGY AWARD EMANUELE CARBONI 2026
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 5th edition of the Emanuele Carboni Award.
The award, which aims to enhancing the young Italian dramaturgy, is open to young authors (resident in Italy or abroad) interested in writing text for theatre in Italiana and who have not yet turned 36 years at the date of 31 December 2026.
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 June 2026 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 May 30, 2026.
The winner will be awarded a prize of € 1,500.00.
Members of the jury: Lorenzo Acquaviva Vitamina T, Caterina Casini Laboratori Permanenti, Donatella Codonesu KIT Italia, Manuela Kustermann Teatro Vascello – La Fabbrica dell’attore, Patrizia La Fonte, Tomaso Thellung TIT - The International Theatre.
Dowmload the pdf file of the regulation and the forms annex 1 and 2
