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| Issue: # 27 |
December 2008 |
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| Green Growing and
Original |
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How can we
create tomorrow today?
 Join the creative
conversation!
FREE
Monday, December 15,
2008
6:00 PM Light Reception 7:00 PM
Performance
7:50 PM Community Talkback
GALA Hispanic
Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC
20009
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| Pete Hall |
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 Promising
Playwright
"I don't do serious plays," Pete Hall says. "I
do comedy because I want to see people smile. There are
so many things going on in the world today that make
people depressed, so I like to give them something to
make them laugh."
Pete is a senior at Bell
Multicultural High School and a natural comedian. At
last year's New Play
Festival his play Keepin' Outta Trouble had
many laughing to the point of tears. Now, Pete is a
member of the Young
Playwrights' Workshop and his latest work Save
'Da Planet Fool! will be featured at Monday's New Writers
Now! Green Growing and Original. In Save
'Da Planet Fool! environmentally-minded gang
members take over a TV news station to spread their
anti-pollution message. Pete counts
famous comedians Jim Carrey, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith
and the Wayans Brothers among his artistic influences.
"I'd have to say I get a lot of inspiration from my
friends too," Pete says. "Sometimes they'll say
something and I'll think 'I gotta put that in a play.'"
Pete is also grateful for the support he has received
from teaching artists at YPT. "At first I was
passionate about computers, but when I transferred to
Bell from McKinley Tech I couldn't find anyone to give
me after-school help on computers. So I thought, what
will my passion be?" Pete says. "Then I discovered
playwriting and YPT and I found a new direction. Being
in YPT has helped me figure out where I want to go in
life." Pete is applying to UCLA and
California State University and plans to explore
creative writing, theater and film.
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