Young Playwrights' Theater teaches students
to express themselves clearly and creatively
through the art of playwriting.
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Young Playwrights’ Workshop
The Young Playwrights’ Workshop is YPT’s award-winning student theater ensemble. Members work together to create, develop, rehearse and perform an original play. A professional teaching artist helps the ensemble develop a foundation of theater skills that form the basis for creating new work. Students learn a diverse set of skills: improvisation, stage combat, clowning, solo performance and playwriting. The resulting performance is held at a professional theater in the DC area and attended by a public audience. Want to join? Click here.
Young Playwrights' Workshop Presents
Young Playwrights’ Workshop Presents Daring new work written and performed by YPT’s student theater ensemble
Monday, June 17, 2013 at 7pm
How does the Workshop work? The ensemble is guided by these values, written and agreed upon by its members.
RESPECT
We are a team. We treat every member of the team with respect, and we embrace each other’s differences. It is never okay to make fun of someone’s idea.
COLLABORATION
We work together by making a thread. We each add a little piece of fiber and in the end we get this rope. We are all linked together by this passion that brings us understanding and abundant knowledge about each other and our world.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
We want this program to be a place where a person can freely express their opinions. All ideas are important. All ideas are considered.
EVOLUTION
We are here to grow as writers and actors.
COMMITMENT
We depend on each other as a team. We each take pride in our own work and the work of the whole group. We always try our best.
IMPACT
We want people to be inspired by our work. We will create theater that is relevant to our community, and will make people think.
FUN
This is not school, and it shouldn’t feel like school. We are here to have fun!
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The Workshop meets in YPT’s studio space every Wednesday from 4:15 to 5:45pm.
Check out photos below of the 2012-2013 Workshop hard at work writing their play in the spring semester.
Chinese Theater Artists Visit the Workshop
On March 28, the Young Playwrights’ Workshop had exciting international guests stop by! Six children’s theater artists from China were in Washington, DC and New York City to learn about theater in the United States, so they visited our studio space to meet some of our students and learn about the Workshop experience. The whole group wrote and performed monologues, and then the visitors got a sneak peek into the Workshop’s process for editing their play to be performed on June 11. Check out the photos on YPT’s Facebook page.
A Visit from Russian Arts Leaders
On February 1, 2012, the Young Playwrights’ Workshop hosted eight arts leaders from throughout Russia in a collaborative intercultural exchange workshop. The visit was sponsored by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of Citizen Exchanges.
On November 11, 2011, YPT students spent a full day collaborating with students from the EsArtes program of Suchitoto, El Salvador to create theater without boundaries.The students had three hours to create, rehearse and perform their piece at the Canadian Embassy. Despite language barriers, these students played, worked, wrote and performed as a group, reminding everyone at the Embassy of the power of theater to overcome boundaries.
On March 28, the Young Playwrights’ Workshop had exciting international guests stop by! Six children’s theater artists from China were in Washington, DC and New York City to learn about theater in the United States, so they visited our studio space to meet some of our students and learn about the Workshop experience. The whole group wrote and performed monologues, and then the visitors got a sneak peek into the Workshop’s process for editing their play to be performed on June 11. Check out the photos on 
On February 1, 2012, the Young Playwrights’ Workshop hosted eight arts leaders from throughout Russia in a collaborative intercultural exchange workshop. The visit was sponsored by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of Citizen 
On November 11, 2011, YPT students spent a full day collaborating with students from the EsArtes program of Suchitoto, El Salvador to create theater without boundaries.