New Writers Now 2008-2009 Season

	In Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month   CELEBRATING COMMUNITY                   OCT 27, 2008 How does theater reflect and shape our community?
	LIFE IN SCHOOL                                     NOV 24, 2008   How do students creatively express their experience in DC school?
	GREEN, GROWING AND ORIGINAL        DEC 15, 2008   How can we create tomorrow today?
	In Honor of Black History Month   THE LEGACY OF MULTICULTURALISM     FEB 2, 2009   How do identity and heritage shape and inspire creative expression?
	THEATER OF THE NEXT GENERATION  APR 20, 2009   How will the students of today shape the theater of tomorrow?
	WRITING AND REWRITING HISTORY       JUN 8, 2009   How does theater help us explore and express our history?

FREE • Mondays at 7:00 PM • GALA Hispanic Theatre • 3333 14th Street NW, 20009

 

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How does theater help us explore and express our history?

June’s New Writers Now! focuses on student writing that dramatizes and reimagines historical events.

Writing from YPT’s year-long residency with...

We examine new directions for theater with our April event Theater of the Next Generation.  Students from the Young Playwrights’ Workshop

present new pieces that examine the intersection of new media and theater and experiment with theatrical form.

New Writers Now! features professional actors in a staged reading of student plays fresh from the classroom, followed by a community discussion about the plays with the playwrights. Young writers discover the value of sharing their work and recognize that the community is invested in the stories they tell.

FREE
Monday, April 20, 2009
7:00 PM
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010

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

Featuring: 

My Dream, Marian’s Dream

By the students of Ferebee Hope Elementary School

 

For Which It Stands

By Kamilia Epps

On February 2nd, 2009 Young Playwrights’ Theater presented New Writers Now! The Legacy of Multiculturalism.

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How can we create tomorrow today?

On December 15th, 2008 Young Playwrights’ Theater presented New Writers Now! Green, Growing and Original.

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On November 24th, 2008 Young Playwrights’ Theater presented New Writers Now! Life In School.

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On October 17th, 2008 Young Playwrights’ Theater partnered with the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute to present the New Writers Now!: Celebrating Community in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Video clips from New Writers Now! Celebrating Community

 Clip from Goodbye Past, Hello Future by Vanessa Vatran

Clip from Do Dreams Exist? by Rose Stefany Quispe

How do students creatively express their experience in DC schools?  

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A New Writers Now! Event

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