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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 2009
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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents
Young Playwrights Festival 2009
December 17-20, 2009
Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre
Tickets $15 adults; $10 student/seniors/MCT subscribers
Box Office: 414.291.7800
Once again we'll be producing this unique showcase for budding young playwrights. Witness what today's teenagers are thinking and feeling as we encourage them to explore their creative voices.
Click HERE for the YPF media release
Click HERE to download a YPF flier
MCT is thrilled to announce Young Playwrights Festival 2009 - Distinguished Plays...
Chosen for production:
Time to Go, Sweetheart
by Kevin Rodgers, Menomonee Falls High School
Mentoring teacher-Cynthia Salamati
Directed by Bryce Lord
When Jesus and Satan meet in a hospital room to argue over the fate of a patient, hilarious lessons about good and evil and the workings of the divine abound.
Featuring Libby Amato, T. Stacy Hicks, Matthew Konkel, Eric Ligocki & Eric Nelson
Astray the Sun
by Charles Howard Sellars, Homestead High School
Mentoring teacher-Angelina Cicero
Directed by Carol Zippel
Set in a fictional Renaissance town, this inventive play about love, friendship and duty boasts vivid characters, unexpected humor and dialogue written entirely in verse.
Featuring Randall T. Anderson, Robert Francis Curtis, Bethany Ligocki, Anthony Ramos, Kyle John Stefanski & Peggy Strand
A Brother's Goodbye
by Samantha Goodwin, Rufus King IB High School
Mentoring teacher-Rhoda Nathan
Directed by Sheri Williams Pannell
This insightful tale chronicles the heartfelt and often witty discussions and demands of a dying, younger sister, when her spectral image seeks to reconnect with her brother on a playground.
Featuring Kim Ballou, Omar Bonilla-Ortiz & Miela Fetaw
Selected as Honorable Mention Entries:
ICE (In Case of Emergency)
by Amanda Boerner, Menomonee Falls High School
Mentoring teacher-Cynthia Salamati
When an accident leaves one woman comatose, her antiquated cell phone opens the door to memories and relationships long forgotten in this clever reminiscence about the nature and longevity of human connections.
Something to Prove
by Molly Cohen, Homestead High School
Mentoring teacher-Angelina Cicero
Armed with the only copy of her life’s work to disprove the theory of relativity, Lola visits a disgruntled physics professor and finds herself caught in a struggle for intellectual ownership.
Fireworks
by Chelsea Jaeger, Menomonee Falls High School
Mentoring teacher-Cynthia Salamati
This delightfully honest romance, set in a local diner on two separate July 4th holidays, follows the affairs of the heart between high school sweethearts who meet again a decade after their break-up.
Their first taste of bright lights
Young Playwrights fest showcases young talent
~Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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For more information, contact Jacque Troy at 414.276.8842 or Click Here
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