Through the Young Playwrights Project, PlayGround and Bay Area high schools partner to enable young writers to find their own expressive voice through the creation, development, and production of short plays.
With a generous planning grant from the California Arts Council Artists-in-Schools program in 2007, PlayGround began taking its unique playwright development efforts into Bay Area high schools as part of the PlayGround Young Playwrights Project. In 2009, PlayGround launched the PlayGround Young Playwrights Project Contest, inviting Bay Area high school students to submit original ten-page plays inspired by an assigned topic. Four student scripts were selected and presented with professional actors and directors as part of the 2009 Best of PlayGround Festival at Thick House in May 2009.
2010 Young Playwrights Project Contest
FINALISTS
Congratulations to the 2010 Young Playwright Project contest finalists:
Thu May 20: Eden by Hannah Sears (Urban School ’12),
directed by Doyle Ott
Fri May 21: Pandora by Lucas Baisch (SOTA ’10), directed
by Nancy Carlin
Sat May 22: Family Values by Nathan Forster (Berkeley High
’11), directed by George Maguire
Sun May 23: Blankie by Caety Klingman (Miramonte High ’11),
directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes
Each play will receive a script-in-hand staged reading with professional directors and actors as a "curtain raiser" at the beginning of the respective night's Best of PlayGround performance. For more information on the Best of PlayGround Festival, click here.
The 2010 Young Playwrights Project is made possible in part by a generous
grant from 
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2009 Young Playwright Project Finalists:
The Toyshop by Sophie Becker
How To Make A Clean Get Away by Tanea Lunsford
Before the Once Upon A Time by Jose Villegas and
Melanie Manzana
Bear by Reese Adams-Romagnoli