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Monday, February
12th, 7:30pm 
Join us for a celebration of new work created by the students in YPT’s In-School Playwriting Program. This season YPT worked with the entire 11th grade of Bell Multicultural High School, resulting in the creation of over 130 new plays. The six plays to be performed in the festival reflect the variety and depth of voices found at this diverse school. We hope you will join us as we honor and celebrate the incredible work of these young people.
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| January 22,
2007
On Monday, January 22nd Young Playwrights' Theater returns to Busboys and Poets for New Writers Now! featuring staged readings of recent student works at Busboys and Poets. Featured in our January program:
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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YPT's work in Washington DC is attracting attention from some major multi-national corporations. In the past year we have received financial support from Starbucks, Target and the Fosters Group of Australia. YPT is one of only six American community groups supported by Fosters. | ||||||
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Thank you to
Fosters Group, Starbucks and Target for your generous support of YPT.
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| Promising
Playwright
Irene Wu is a
young woman of strong opinions and great ambition. Like the determined
protagonist of her play, All’s Fair in Love and War, who’d rather
live the life of a dashing knight than a cloistered princess, Irene will
not be underestimated.
An eleventh-grader at Wilson High School, Irene lives with her family in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC and aspires to be rich and powerful. She is caught between her desires for artistic self- expression and the drive to support her family. “I want to improve my art but I want to make money,” she says, as she discusses possible futures at such diverse institutions as Cooper Union, USC and George Washington University. Just as her ambitions sometimes seem contradictory, she often finds herself at odds with cultural expectations. “I am not a stereotypical Asian. When people see an Asian with glasses and stuff they think ‘she’s really smart. She has all A’s.’ I’m not that type. I get B’s and C’s. I hate math.” Irene is fascinated by cartoons and graphic art. “I like to draw people. New fashions. You know?” She speaks Cantonese and Taisanese (two variants of the Chinese Language) and is taking a three year course to learn Mandarin. This summer she is looking forward to a trip to Beijing. We hope to hear more from this passionate, promising playwright in the future. | ||||||
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