New Writers Now! 2007-2008 Season

For the second season, YPT produced three New Writers Now! performances at Woolly Mammoth Theatre and held one performance at YPT’s headquarters in the new Young Playwrights’ Workshop space.

A Footprint in the Snow

By The Students of YPT’s Summer Dramatics Program

Stephany Baez
Wilber Blanco
Ana Maria Garcia
Anita Guzeh
Kristen James
Odessa Lewis
Charles Misher
Christian Moreno
Joanna Pierre
India Stevens

Patrick Crowley
with assistance from
Nicole Jost

When Dreams Sleep

by Julius Johnson

 

A Mother’s Love for A Lost Boy

by Benjamin Ventura

 

I Rise

by students in YPT’s After School Program at Kelly Miller Middle School.

I Rise was featured in a Washington Post Article this past Spring. To read more about I Rise

click here.

 

• A heartsick man tries to convince his wife to stay, in an untitled new play by Wenda Thompson
  
  
• A young girl deals with her confusing mix of emotions towards “Stinky Brian” in
  Love WHAT!? NO!? Me a 10 Year old?! What? Uh-oh!! by Mayra Rivera
  
  
• In a fairy tale world, a lonely dog runs from a witch and finds a friend in The True Power of Friendship by Jane Stirling

Monday, May 5, 2009
7:00 PM
2437 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Featuring:

A Performance by the Resident Acting Company of
Young Playwrights' Workshop

Mercedes Gramajo
Anita Guzeh
Michelle Luechinger
 

Plays by the students in the Playwriting Program of
Young Playwrights' Workshop

Miscommunication

By Qi Ling Li

Betrayal

By Yessica Bonilla

Actors

Ryan Christie
Franklin Dam
Fatima Quander
Alex Perez

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