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Young Playwrights’ Theater teaches students to express themselves clearly and creatively through the art of playwriting.
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Congratulations Young Playwrights!

YPT Wraps Up Ambitious 2008-2009 Season

This spring YPT has produced eighteen plays, representing the work of over 100 young playwrights, in nine evening performances and fifty tour performances in the Washington DC area. Over six thousand people have seen the work of our young playwrights.

Through the
New Play Festival,
Express Tour, and
New Writers Now! more people than ever are discovering the power and potential of student voices.

Congratulations to these young playwrights!

View Photos from the New Play Festival

  Watch Videos of:
           New Play Festival Recap
           Karen Zacarias receiving YPT’s Giving Voice Award
           Tornado Boy by Antawan Taylor
                               The Elevator by Nora Spellane

View Photos from the Express Tour Showcase

Watch Videos of:

Express Tour Recap
Mom and Mr. Nachos by Luis Hernandez

WAMU 88.5 Covers YPT's "Choosing Change"

May 15, 2009

Stephanie Kay of local NPR station WAMU 88.5 produced three separate pieces on YPT’s play Choosing Change in the past week. The longest of these aired May 15, 2009. See below for links to each of the pieces.

To listen to the story from Metro Connection on May 15, 2009 click here.

To listen to the clip from May 6
click here.

To listen to the clip from May 7
click here.

Behind Bards: Oak Hill students Choose Change

Northwest Current, May 6, 2009

By Rebecca Blatt
Current Columnist

"Choosing Change,” on stage this week at the GALA Hispanic Theatre, begins with a blast of music, the smash of a gavel and a simple line: “Once upon a time I made a choice, and there was a change.”

Then the actors recite a series of echoes:

“Once upon a time I was doing what I wanted. ...”

“Once upon a time I fell in love with the streets and the stacks. ...”

“Once upon a time I was smoking and fighting and didn’t care....”

“Once upon a time there was a choice and a change, and kids got locked up.”

Click here to view a PDF of the entire article.

Heidy Lovo

Promising Playwright, June 2009

"I didn’t know that I could stand on a stage and express myself. Now I know that I can, and I want to keep on doing it."
- Heidy Lovo

Heidy spoke these words on Monday June 8th as she stood on the stage at GALA Hispanic Theatre, having just performed an original monologue as part of New Writers Now! Her piece explored miscommunication in an elementary school classroom between a recent immigrant and his schoolteacher. Inspired by John Leguizamo, Heidy transformed a memory from her own past into a hilarious performance, playing multiple roles and speaking in English and Spanish.

She is unafraid to try new and often wacky things, and though she has multiple family obligations and a lot of school work, she makes it a point not to miss her sessions with the Young Playwrights’ Workshop.

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