‘TAPP Gave Me The Validation I Needed As A Writer – Student

The final year student of the University of Nigeria Nsukka UNN, whose poems, have featured in Kalahari Review, said the prize, organized by the Arojah Royal Theatre is the sole platform dedicated to student playwrights in the country.

Noting the desire of young writers to be the next Wole Soyinka but lacking the platform and support required to do so, he urged individuals, theatre organizations, the society’s bourgeois to partner with ART in enhancing support for young writers, and to revive theatre art in Nigeria. ‘‘No matter how much we pretend that it’s not all about the money or prestige, we need that publicity. No matter how much you write, if people don’t know you, they don’t know you. I wish that other organizations, the bourgeois will support this type of effort and let’s say in the next two to three years that the first prize will increase to one or two million naira.”

ART with the support of the MacArthur Foundation provides in addition to N150,000 and N50,000 to the winner, first and third runners up, offers a playwriting masterclass, an anthology of all longlisted plays per edition, and the staging of the top three winning plays by ART.

Snagging the second place is winner of the TAPP maiden edition Obafemi Awolowo University’s Joshua Ojo Miracle with Hope In Pains, while University of Benin’s Lukman Segun holds third place with Clamour of Agony.

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