Production History

Young Playwrights’ Theater has been producing original student works in Washington, DC since 1995.  Many of the area’s leading actors and directors have appeared with YPT at one point or another. Our production history gives you a peek into our past so that you can see where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. We’ve included highlights from each year. To see the full details about a specific production, hit continue and you’ll be taken to a new page with more information.  

YPT's 20th Anniversary Season!

• The 20th Anniversary Festival
  A Celebration of Young Voices and DC Theater
  Friday, December 12, 2014
   
  
  Theater J
   
• New Writers Now! #nofilter
  Staged reading...

• New Writers Now! Save the Day
  Monday, November 18, 2013
  Josephine Butler Parks Center
  
   
• New Writers Now! Truth and Dare
  Tuesday, February 11, 2014
  Theater J
  
   
• New Play Festival
  Monday,...

• New Writers Now! School’s In
  Monday, Oct. 1, 2012
   

• Express Tour Showcase

Monday, Nov. 26, 2012
 

• New Writers Now! Young at Heart

Monday, Feb. 11, 2013
 

• New Play Festival

Monday, April 22,...

• New Writers Now! The Fight for Family
  Monday, October 23, 2011
• Express Tour Showcase: Heroes and Bullies
  Monday, November 14, 2011
• New Writers Now! Mad Love
  ...

• New Writers Now! Outside In 
  Monday, October 4, 2010
• Express Tour Showcase
  November 3-6, 2010
• New Writers Now! From Civil War to Civil Rights
  Monday, February 7,...

• New Writers Now! Monday, October 27, 2008
• New Writers Now! Monday, November 24, 2008
• New Writers Now! Monday, December 15, 2008
• New Writers Now! Monday, February 2, 2009
• New...

YPT performs at the Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage!

Click here to view videos of those performances.

• New Writers Now! September 24, 2007
• New Writers Now! November 26, 2007
• The Nation of Immigrants Project
• New Writers Now! January 28, 2008
• The New Play Festival
• The 2008...

• Retratos: Portraits of Our World
• New Play Festival 2006
• Youth or...

• Youth or Dare Tour
• Choices: Reflections On the Holocaust
• Youth or Dare Gala
• The New Play Festival 2005
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• Pieces of Life
• Journey from Page to Stage
• The 2002 Youth of Dare Tour
• Youth Ink: The Power of...

The 1998 - 1999 Season

The Pen is Mightier: Proudly Presenting the 1999 Spring

The 1997 - 1998 Season

 To Be or Not To Be: Proudly Presenting the 1998 Spring Tour

 

Biological Didn’t Bother

By Ernest Reynolds

Woodson High School

Grown Up

By Faye Reif-Pasarew

Hardy Middle School/Fillmore Arts Center

Liar Man or Liar Parrot

By Jose...

By Brandon Bradford 

Woodson High School

Facing The Facts

By Arvette Reese

Woodson...