ACT Sets the Stage for
Amazing Talent, Amazing Opportunities with its
Eighth Annual Young Playwrights Festival
Eight Writers Age 14-18 Receive Staged Readings of Their Plays
ACT’s Eighth Annual Young Playwrights Festival
March 11-13, 2010
In the Allen Theatre
Tickets
$10 for adults
$5 for students/people (age 25 and under) and seniors (65 and older)
Special tax-deductable Festival Sponsorship tickets are available for $100
ACT Theatre
Ticket Office: (206) 292-7676
700 Union Street, Seattle WA 98101
Seattle, WA – February 23, 2010– ACT’s annual Young Playwrights Festival returns March 11-13 for an eighth year, featuring a wonderful mix of dramatic and comedic new works from talented student writers ages 14 to 18.
ACT will present staged readings of eight new plays developed through ACT’s Young Playwrights Program (YPP) serving upwards of 300 middle and high school students from King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Thurston counties throughout 14 greater Seattle-area schools and including students attending Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center’s after school YPP program. Plays were selected by an artistic panel at ACT from approximately 260 plays by participating students. To prepare for the staged readings, each student playwright is partnered with a professional director, and actors, and participates in nearly 20 hours of rehearsal with his or her creative team. Each program will be performed twice during the three-day festival.
ACT Young Playwrights Festival Schedule:
Program A
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 13 at 1:00 p.m.
David Harris, Dealing with the Neighbors, Seattle Academy, 12th grade
Directed by Andy Jensen
Emma Framson, Unrequited Love, Garfield High School, 12th grade
Directed by Gillian Jorgensen
Joslynn Vasquez, From Trailor Parks to Amusement Parks: The Story of Jane Gyre, Highline High School, 12th grade
Directed by Kate Jaeger
Marianna White, Forgetting Sarah, TOPS K-8, 8th grade
Directed by David Gassner
Program B
Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 13 at 4:00 p.m.
Pauline Lai Heng, The Pseudo-British Comedy, Franklin High School 12th Grade
Directed by K. Brian Neel
Zoe Furlong, El Cartel, Lakeside School, 12th Grade
Directed by Julie Beckman
Adillia Loud, I Am My Brother's Keeper, Washington Middle School, 8th Grade
Directed by Isiah Anderson Jr.
Jimmy Blackmon, Fire and Rain, Olympia High School, 12th Grade
Directed by Timothy Hyland
“We are very excited about this year's Young Playwrights Festival! The eight playwrights featured are some of the strongest, most creative voices to emerge from the 2009 Young Playwrights Program. It is truly amazing to see these students take their plays from the page to the stage under the mentorship of local professional theatre artists,” said Director of Education Kristina Sutherland. “These young playwrights dig into the artistic progress, attend rehearsals, rewrite their scripts, and make their voices heard on stage. They work hard to showcase their best work and the results are impressive.”
“Being a part of the 2009 Young Playwrights Festival, learning about all the different aspects of playwriting, having a teacher who never censored me, and being given a chance to see my work preformed and taken seriously gave me the confidence to identify myself as a writer,” said 2009 Young Playwright Festival participant Rebecca Ehlers.
YPP offers greater Seattle-area students a high-quality, exciting language arts curriculumdramatic structure, character creation, dialogue, action, subtext, point of view, understanding and developing dramatic conflict, writing a scene, generating ideas through improvisation, the importance of rewrites, and writing for an audience. based on the art of playwriting. Professional playwright/teaching artists from ACT teach the rudiments of playwriting in participating area schools in the fall quarter of each school year. Concepts taught include
Each student playwright completes a 10- to 20-minute original play by the end of the session. The 10-week classroom portion of the YPP runs from September through December each year.
Started in 2002, YPP is a natural extension of ACT's commitment to new plays and playwrights. Since its inception, ACT's YPP has grown from 72 middle and high school students in six schools and an eight-week curriculum to more than 300 students in 15 schools and a 10-week/20-session curriculum.
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