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| New Play Festival
Playwrights Announced |
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YPT's annual celebration of bold new voices is
slated for April 19-21, 2010. Mark your
calendars!
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Mariana's Wish by
Mariana Pavon
(Wakefield High School)
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Altador(k) by Eduardo
Reyes
(Bell Multicultural High
School)
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Daft Desire by Kenrry
Alvarado
(Bell Multicultural High
School)
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Going Down the Evolution
Ladder by Brenda Reyes
(Banneker High
School)
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The Art or Science of Sign
Flipping by Becky Koretz
(Wilson High
School)
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Viordanna and the
Knight by Melissa Joskow
(H-B Woodlawn
Secondary Program)
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3434 by Kalia Snowden
(Wilson High School)
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Love Math and Martians Don't
Mix by Cassidy Boomsma
(Swanson Middle
School) To read more about
the plays, playwrights and the New Play Festival, click
here.
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| Mercedes Tells
Her Story |
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Mercedes Gramajo is a YPT
Ambassador who was profiled here.
In the video below she tells
her YPT story in her own words.
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| Kalia
Snowden |
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 Promising
Playwright
"I was excited. I just kept
being like 'Oh wow. Wow. Wow. Oh,'" says Kalia Snowden
of the moment she learned that her play was chosen to
part of YPT's New
Play Festival. "I had a wowzer moment." She says.
Kalia is in the 9th grade at
Wilson High School. She lives in Adams Morgan with her
grandmother and brother.
Her play 3434 depicts a
futuristic world in which science has rendered women and
girls unnecessary and illegal. "Usually, I'm the
actress not the playwright. I was just thinking about
the most snooty role, to the point that there's no
arguing that you're the star," she explains. "Then I was
like, 'What if I was the only girl in the play? What if
I was the only girl in the WORLD?'"
Kalia's play impressed the
reading committee with its emotional depth and
creativity. 3434
will be produced, along with seven other plays at
YPT's New
Play Festival in April. "I hope people who see my
play come away thinking we need chicks," Kalia says.
"Without chicks the whole world goes downhill. We are
better and you need us."
Kalia feels she is most
creative when she's given a chance to express herself
without being assigned a topic. "I don't enjoy any type
of art ever where they give you a topic. You can't tell
me to paint a picture of an apple, because now it has to
be an apple," she says. She is inspired by other writers
and enjoys crafting fanfiction around her favorite manga series Naruto. "There's this story that I
started at camp, and I have it on this website for my
friends to read. I'm not letting anyone else read it
till it's done. I post updates sometimes and my friends
are all excited."
Kalia counsels other potential
playwrights, "Just find your inspiration and go. If you
find that inspiration, you need to just go with it, even
if it's 3 AM on the day it's due."
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