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This month The Smithsonian
Associates, Discovery Theater and Young Playwrights' Theater will premiere
African Roots/Latino Soul. In this exciting new Hispanic Heritage
Month play produced by the writers of Young Playwrights' Theater and the
professional performing artists of the Discovery Theater, students from
MacFarland Middle School and Bell Multicultural High School express their
hearts (and souls) with music poetry and drama in an exploration of
growing up multi-everything in modern-day America.
This passionate and
thought-provoking culture-slam celebrates diversity in the lives of DC's
young people. YPT Founding Artistic Director Karen Zacarias worked the
students' writings into an exciting interactive play about embracing the
contradictions within each one of us and acknowledging that the music
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| YPT Pilots New
Staged Reading Series
YPT will kick-off its new
staged reading series New Writers Now! on Monday, November 13th at
Busboys and Poets on 14th Street NW. The series will be held
monthly, at the same location, and feature new student works read by
professional actors in Busboys and Poets' vibrant Langston
Room.
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| Promising
Playwright
Fernando
Romero graduated this past spring from Antioch College with a major in
theatre and is now appearing in YPT’s African Roots/Latino Soul.
His life as an actor is one he could have little imagined as a young boy
growing up in a mountain village without water or electricity in El
Salvador.
The transition from his childhood in El Salvador to his adolescence in Washington was the topic of a play “My Story” Fernando wrote with YPT. Fernando first became acquainted with YPT while he was a student at Bell Multicultural High School. After graduation, YPT offered Fernando a job, first as a receptionist and then as a Program Coordinator from 1999-2002. Founder Karen Zacarias gave him his first acting job with YPT’s Express
Tour. Fernando says “It was an amazing experience. If Karen hadn’t
given me the opportunity to act with the Express Tour, I probably wouldn’t
have decided to study theatre.” Fernando had been accepted by Antioch
College upon graduation in 2000 and delayed enrollment only until his
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