Since 1985, the San Diego-based organization has been running a statewide writing contest for students from elementary through high school. The winners are celebrated with an annual festival, open both to school groups and the public.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Young dramatists take turn in spotlight with Plays by Young Writers fest
Since 1985, the San Diego-based organization has been running a statewide writing contest for students from elementary through high school. The winners are celebrated with an annual festival, open both to school groups and the public.
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I definitely feel inspired after reading this article about the Playwright’s Project about Young dramatists work. The fact that one of the winners of the San Diego based organization was an 11yr old is completely crazy, in an amazing way. Every single play’s synopsis of the winners of this festival and original, creative, and genuine ideas. The world needs more organizations that read scripts blindly to give out awards. Females are not untalented, our voices are just often ignored once our gender has been revealed. People are born with inherent bias, and the fact that these six playwrights won this aware based purely on merit is a true testament to female talent. Especially young female talent, for all of the contestant winner to have written their submissions from the age of 11 to 17yrs old is absolutely incredible. I hope that each of these contestants continue to pursue their passions into college and I am extremely sure that the Playwright’s Project will continue to thrive as is finds more and more talented students who are exploring and discovering themselves through writing.
I am so happy that this Young Writers fest is happening because inspiring young female playwrights is one of the greatest things a theatre organization can do. It is also nice to see that this playwriting festival is statewide. Though this doesn’t mean this is state-sponsored, hopefully, the model of the state-wide playwriting festival is copied and used by other states to encourage female playwrights. I completely agree with Ella’s comment when she talks about how female voices aren’t heard and aren’t valued as much as male voices. This horrid issue is best shown by how plays written by female playwrights don’t get the same run time as male written shows on Broadway. Sweat by Lynn Nottage, closed in June of this summer and A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, another Tony nominee for best play this past season closed in September (originally having a closing date of January though that got curtailed). The other nominated play written by a female, Indecent by Paula Vogel, closed in August. The point of listing all these shows is to see how the market supports male playwrights over female playwrights. Clearly, these shows were in similar calibers as they were all nominated for the Tony for best play yet the male-written one had the longest runtime.
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