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High School Festival: Speech & Drama

Actress

Actor

If you have a flair for the dramatic, love the idea of performing for an audience or want to stretch your creative writing skills, here’s your chance. Compete in playwriting, group or solo performance categories and receive feedback from our respected and award-winning theatre faculty.

Competitions

Performance (Solo)

Performance Guidelines

Acting (Group)

Acting Guidelines

Original Oratory (Solo)

Oratory Guidelines

24-Hour Playwriting (Solo)

24-Hour Playwriting Guidelines


Printable Guidelines for all categories

  • Students may enter a maximum of 3 contests.
  • Students may win first place more than once in successive years with different pieces.
  • Any student who does not fulfill all of the contest requirements will forfeit their right to win but will receive judges’ written critiques.

1st Place Individual

  • Trophy
  • Paid program fee for the 1st semester of freshman year at BJU ($800–$1475)
  • $400 Scholarship for BJU EDUcamp

2nd Place Individual

3rd Place Individual

1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Group Winners

  • Trophy

These experiences are available for any High School Festival competitors and sponsors, whether or not they are competing in the Speech & Drama categories!

  • The BJU Theatre Department will perform a production of Wait Until Dark exclusively for High School Festival Attendees on Monday at 8 p.m. in Performance Hall.
  • The Division of Communication will host a tour of classroom and learning spaces used by Theatre, Media, and Communication programs on Thursday at 3 p.m. See the Festival Booklet you receive at check-in for location.
  • Video Competition entries will be shown on Thursday.
  • Classes in the Theatre, Media, and Communication programs will be available to visit! The Festival Booklet you receive at check-in will have more information.