The 2013 Young Playwrights Festival

Tomorrow's playwrights today

Every March, the Young Playwrights Festival showcases some of the best of the Young Playwrights Program (YPP), allowing select students to see their playwriting work come to life with the help of a professional artistic team. Starting in December, a panel of professional artists reads all the student plays created during the Young Playwrights Program. After evaluating each play on its merits, we select eight outstanding plays to feature in professionally staged readings at ACT in the annual Young Playwrights Festival.

Once selected, the student playwrights work diligently to craft their plays further to make them ready for the stage in March. To prepare for the staged readings, each student playwright is partnered with a professional director, dramaturg, stage manager, and actors, and participates in nearly 20 hours of rehearsal with his or her creative team. Each play is performed twice during the three-day festival.

"Seeing my play onstage at ACT!!! It was like being able to fly for a few minutes. After it's over, you walk around like you are dancing on the moon."

                                           –Zoe Baker-Aderem, 2009 YPF participant

The 2012 Young Playwrights PLAY Anthology is here!

The 2011 PLAY Anthology features all new plays world premiered at this year's Young Playwrights Festival. Ranging from the absurd and farcical to the somber and poetic, these scripts are as unique as the playwrights themselves. Who knows? Maybe within these pages lies the first published play of our next great playwright.

The 2012 PLAY Anthology is now available on Amazon!
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For previous years' PLAY Anthologies, contact Anita Montgomery at amontgomery@acttheatre.org or (206) 292-7660 ext. 1227.