Summer Playwriting Series

The Summer Playwriting Series provides students with the tools necessary to create and perform their own plays, including lessons in playwriting, acting and design.

Community-Based   Young Playwrights’ Theater conducts the Summer Playwriting Series at partner schools, camps and community centers.
Culmination The end of each series culminates with a community sharing of student work for students, friends, and families. Outstanding summer plays may be given staged readings at New Writers Now! or produced as part of YPT’s Annual Express Tour.

Recent partner sites for the Summer Playwriting Series include Kelly Miller Middle School, Allen AME Church and Trinidad Recreation Center (in collaboration with CityDance.)  

For more information on how to bring the Summer Playwriting Series to your school or center, contact Nicole Jost at 202-387-9173 or njost@yptdc.org.

In the summer of 2011, YPT returned to the Horizons program at Maret School. In their final workshop, professional actors read the students’ plays for the class.

Photos by Liza Harbison.

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During the summer of 2010, YPT returned to the Horizons program at the Maret School to teach playwriting to rising sixth grade students from H.D. Cooke Elementary and Bancroft Elementary.

The characters these students created were thrilling and suggested a wealth of imagination and creativity. From a dog who continually steals the bones discovered by a struggling archeologist to a boy turned vampire who longs to be with his family, these plays represented the promise that the youth in our community are able to invent stories capable of making us experience the wide array of human emotions. At the conclusion of the program, the students performed their original plays for their classmates as a staged reading.

Photos by Liza Harbison.

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