Godfather Prize Begins With 2025 National Asian American Playwrights Festival
CAATA is proud to announce the inaugural Godfather Prize, a new national playwriting award supporting AANHPI, SWANA, MENA, and Mixed-Race playwrights. Made possible through the generous foundational support of , the Godfather Prize celebrates an artist whose work reflects artistic excellence, cultural impact, and the spirit of legacy, resistance, and evolution.
(And if you suspect the Godfather Prize is connected to the editor of the Revue…give yourself a gold star—support is for a $1,000 prize this year with the aim of building a six figure endowment in future years).
As a collective of Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Mixed-Race theater artists and administrators, CAATA celebrates the vitality of our communities while working toward our shared values of social justice, cultural equity, artistic diversity, and inclusion.
Playwrights who identify as a part of our collective are invited to submit an original 10-minute play to be considered for the Godfather Prize.
One playwright will be selected to receive the inaugural Godfather Prize. Selected finalists for the prize will be invited to participate in CAATA’s inaugural 10-Minute Playwriting Festival: Legacy. Resistance. Evolution. This virtual festival will feature live-streamed presentations of the selected finalists’ plays in November 2026.
To protect the integrity of the process, applicants are asked not to contact any members of the selection committees directly. All questions or concerns should be directed to , CAATA Executive Director, at Kayla@caata.net.
Learn more on the CAATA website or download the attached PDF.
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