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Monday, February
12th, 7:30pm 
Only a few days away!
Don't miss our biggest event of the year. Students, artists and community members will gather at the Gala Hispanic Theatre to celebrate the work of six Young Playwrights. These plays represent the best of a group of over 130 plays written this year by the students at Bell Multicultural High School.
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February 26,
2007 
Join us for February's New
Writers Now! as our playwrights explore the following questions:
What if you fell in love with your worst enemy? What if the person you were talking to on Myspace wasn't who they seemed to be at all? What if an Iraqi family met personally with the President to talk about the effects of the war? February 26th at Busboys and Poets.
Busboys and Poets is located at 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. For more information visit: http://www.busboysandpoets.com/ | ||||||
We are pleased and proud to
present these students' works to new audiences and grateful for the
support of the Humanities Council of Washington DC, Busboys and Poets and
Target for making New Writers Now! possible.
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Young
Playwrights' Theater has joined forces with Project My Time to bring new
after-school choices to students in DC Middle School.
Project My Time was created through an $8 million grant to the Trust from The Wallace Foundation. The after-school initiative resulted from the partnership of 50 stakeholders, including the Trust, the Mayor’s office, the DC Public Schools, several District agencies including the DC Department of Parks and Recreation and the local philanthropic community. Through Project My Time, YPT is currently offering Playmaking classes to students at Lincoln Multicultural Middle School and Kelly Miller Middle School, four days a week. We are proud to be part of this new project and look forward to bringing the art of playwriting to more schools throughout the city. | ||||||
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Promising
Playwright 
Beneath her
quiet, composed exterior, Lyndsey Newsome’s mind is busy churning out
detailed scenes of unexpected comedy. “I’ve never been the type of girl to
fit in. A lot of the kids at school bore me, so I just go into la la land
and make stuff up.”
On stage in Lyndsey’s mental theatre: a small dog named “fatness” tormented by a stuffed squirrel named “Mr. Squeaker”; a Middle School Principal with connections to the mob who is brought down by his scheming students; a college admissions counselor on a magical adventure with a brownie. Lyndsey’s latest creation, a play called Of Friends and Potheads will be featured in the 2007 New Play Festival this coming Monday, February 12th. Of Friends and Potheads is a humorous and ultimately galvanizing tale of a high school student trying to hold onto her goals of a college education while her friends try to get her to join their perpetual party lifestyle. “I was inspired to write about peer pressure because I was going
through it. I stood my ground. After that experience I reflected on it. I
want people to see that sometimes you can have friends who are trying to
get you to do things that are just for their benefit. They’re not really
your friends. You have to be careful of friends like that, “ says Lyndsey.
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