Every year, Out of Bounds honors the furthering of the improv artform's evolution in the form of the Well Hung Jury Memorial Scholarship.

The WHJM Scholarship includes a FULL RIDE for classes and an ALL SHOWS pass to the festival. This is a $200 value!!!

THE RULES
The Scholarship will go to the person who can submit the best new idea for an improv format. Submissions will be taken in any and all forms; on CD, as a Word document, performed on tape, etc. There are no guidelines for how you submit or what you submit. It's free and it's all about getting the wheels of invention turning. Please include your email address and name somewhere on the thing so we know who you are.

Entries are due August 9th.
Please email your entry or any questions you might have to the festival producers
Or if physical mail is necessary, see below.
A panel of oob staff members will go over and discuss the entries and announce a winner via email on August 15th.

THE HALL OF WINNERS

2007 - Jeff Britt for Wild Strawberries
Synopsis: This is a variation on the Hero's Journey, and it uses the formula found in the late Ingmar Bergman's classic film, Wild Strawberries.

The hero is taking a trip with a companion (by car, plane, boat, or whatever means possible) to some location where she or he is to be honored or rewarded for a lifetime (or at least a long time) of excellence in some field (that "field" can stem from an audience suggestion*). The resulting story unfolds as a journey in which the supporting players play people the hero meets along the way.

But here's where it gets nice and Bergmany: after every scene in which the supporting players say or do something that reminds the hero of some aspect of his identity or her storied past, there is a symbolism-heavy dream sequence which drives home the hero's personal revelations in theatrically exaggerated ways. By the time the hero is accepting the honor at the end, she or he should seem to be a significantly changed person from the surface-only praised master that he or she was at the beginning of the story.

*If the players wish to heighten the story's comic potential, they could lean the audience suggestion toward some less esteemed occupation, such as a gas station attendant or a cable guy.

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2006 - Kaci Beeler for Opening Night at The Burton Community Theatre
Synopsis: A group of improvisers learns and rehearses a community theatre-type scripted work as if it is to be performed just as it should. However, the improvisers are encouraged to take liberties during the performance controlling chaotic "accidents" and slips not previously planned or rehearsed that force the other actors to cover and or improvise their way back from the ensuing disparities and into the regularly planned show.


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For regular mail please send your entry to:
Jeremy Lamb
4313 W. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004