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.
Values
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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Want to put YOUR story on stage? Be a part of this year’s Workshop!
The Workshop meets in YPT’s studio space every Wednesday from 4 to 5:30pm.
On November 11, 2011, YPT students spent a full day collaborating with students from the EsArtes program in Suchitoto, El Salvador to create theater without boundaries. The students had three hours to create and rehearse their piece, to be performed 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.
Last year’s final workshop performance was held on Saturday, July 23 at 12pm as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. The reviews are in! Check out the Young Playwrights’ Workshop on WJLA and WAMU, as well as reviews of Out of the Shadow in the Maryland Theatre Guide and DC Theatre Scene!
Check out our blog, Theater Educates, for a poem from Josie Torres about her experience with the Workshop.
Check out some photos of the Workshop below! You can also view all of our photo albums on our main photo page.
On November 11, 2011, YPT students spent a full day collaborating with students from the EsArtes program in Suchitoto, El Salvador to create theater without boundaries. The students had three hours to create and rehearse their piece, to be performed 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.