ACT Young Playwrights Festival

ACT’s 2007 Young Playwrights Festival features eight plays developed in 14 Seattle-area schools as part of ACT’s Young Playwrights Program. The plays are presented in two separate workshop programs. These eight plays were selected from approximately 300 plays by participating students. To prepare for the staged readings, each student playwright has the opportunity to work with a professional director and actors.

Festival Schedule:

Program A
Thursday, March 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 3 at 12:00pm (noon)

Block Party
By Rory Voie, Ingraham High School
Directed by Tim Hyland

Paradise Lost
By Elliott Woo, Garfield High School
Directed by Beverly Ann Thompson

Magic on Mainstreet
By Rebecca Ehlers, TOPS
Directed by Maria Glanz

No Mayo
By Dan Rector, Ballard High School
Directed by Mark Zufelt

Program B
Friday, March 2 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 3 at 4:00pm

Why You Shouldn’t Believe in Fairies
By Alexandria Barber, NOVA Alternative High School
Directed by Timeca Briggs

Delete My Heart
By Margo Qurbanzadeh, Roosevelt High School
Directed by Kathleen Collins

The Ants Go Marching One by One
By Graham Schneider, Bainbridge High School
Directed by Gillian Jorgensen

Mindless Angst
By Devin Petersen, Lakeside School
Directed by Anthony Winkler

ACT’s Young Playwrights Program offers Seattle-area middle and high school students a high quality, exciting new language arts curriculum based on the art of playwriting. Professional playwrights/teaching artists teach the basics of playwriting in participating schools. Concepts taught include dramatic structure, character creation, dialogue, action, subtext, point of view, understanding and developing dramatic conflict, writing a scene, generating ideas through improvisation, the importance of rewrites, and writing for an audience.

Festival Passes can be used for admission to all programs. Single tickets provide admission to a single program.