The 2001 - 2002 Season
The 2001 Youth or Dare Tour
Fall 2001
Presented by Young Playwrights’ Theater in cooperation with African Continuum Theatre Company
Plays:
Why Buy The Cow?
By Kellie Wade
Shaina’s Cutting
By Sade Green
The Truth Amongst Three
By Max A Roque
Leaving Home
By Mayer Mazariegos
Peasant Revolt
By Cameron Byrd
Conditional Love
By Chaunetta L Jones
Whatever You Do, Don’t Say… !
By Helen Li
Liar Man/Liar Parrot
By Jose Martinez
Directors:
Nick Olcott
Hugo Medrano
Lee Mikeska Gardner
Jennifer L. Nelson
Tom Prewitt
Karen Zacarias
Journey from PAGE-to-STAGE Festival
Empower Plays
By Danielle Kelley, Judy Torres, Yesenia Nunez, Zainep Mahmoud, and Cecelia Jenkins
Director
Karen Zacarais
Venue
John F Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Don’t Ask For Directions
A New Performance by Spoken Resistance
Venue
Josephine Butler Parks Center
With a special opening reading by San Francisco-based Salvadoran Poet Leticia Hernandez-Linares
The Art of Playmaking
April 8, 2002
AFI Theater at the John F Kennedy Center
In association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Plays
Family Life
By Martin Washington
No Deal
By Scimone Jackson
The Human Cannonball
By Yesenia Nunez
A Lesson in Forgiveness
By Michelle Wheatley
The Make-up Test
By Donte Kersey
When Georgia Comes Home
By Paloma Ellis
Catnip
By Letitia Cetiha
Actors
Nkiyah Flanagan
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Gwendolyn Briley-Strand
Grace Eboigbe
Lolita Christina Foster
Michael Jerome Johnson
Kimberly Schraf
Trenton Wagler
Guest Emcee
Cameron Byrd
Director
Tom Prewitt, Associate Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth
Playwriting Teachers/Dramaturgs
Fillmore Arts Center
Karen Zacarias
Joy Jones
Hine Junior High School
Michele Elliott
Trenton Wagler, Assistant
Mary Williams, Creative Writing Teacher
Empower Play Festival 2002
Spring 2002
Folger Shakespeare Library
Plays:
Fear and the Pope
By Nick Jost, Wilson Senior High School
Anden and Tetrah
By Keith Andrews, School Without Walls
Ringmaster
By Adrienne Finucane, Wilson Senior High School
The Bathroom
By Lucy Witt, Wilson Senior High School
Untitled
By Rudolph Yelverton, Cardozo High School
Rare and Exotic
By Josh Perles, Wilson Senior High School
Giving
By Shuk-Kuen Chiu, Bell Multicultural High School
Unforgettable
By Zainep Mahmoud , Banneker Academic
Directors
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Josette Marina Murray
Dramaturgs
Michelle Elliot
Joy Jones
Ernie Joselovitz
Cathy Madison
Elizabeth Pringle
Venue
Folger Shakespeare Library
Actors
Peggy Chang
Kelly Gardner
Tara Garwood
Nehal Joshi
Korrine Loynes
Michael Garcia Mack
Rahaleh Nassri
Patricia Penn
Peter Pereyra
Gregory Reid
DaRon Ross
Jolene Vettese
Saskia Devries
