26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival

Playwrights Theatre is pleased to announce the 26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival will be held on Saturday, March 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. The Madison Young Playwrights Festival brings to life the work of young playwrights who completed a play as part of a 10-week playwriting program conducted by Playwrights Theatre in the Central Avenue School, Kings Road School, Torey J. Sabatini School, Madison Junior School and St. Vincent Martyr School. Five plays were chosen and these plays will be presented with professional actors.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students. For tickets, call the box office at 973-514-1787 X34. The Festival will take place at the Madison Junior School, 160 Main Street, Madison.

“We have selected a particularly unique group of plays for the Madison Festival this year,” said Jim DeVivo, Director of Education. “The five chosen for the Festival represent an imaginative group of plays received from the schools; all students who participated in the program are to be congratulated! The Festival playwrights are currently working on script revisions and I look forward to these plays coming to life during rehearsal."

The following student’s plays will be presented this year:

It’s Hard to Get a Halo by Katerina Rettino (Central Avenue School)
Crime Scene Disaster by Kelly Notine (Madison Junior School)
She’s Actually Pretty Cool by Ellie Culin (Kings Road School)
Is It A Dream? by Kevin Espiritu (St. Vincent Martyr School)
From Geek to Chic by Mollie Sullivan (Torey J. Sabatini School)

Carolyn Hunt is currently teaching a playwriting residency at Madison High School. They will present an in-school staged reading of select plays when the residency concludes in April. This reading will include high school students working alongside professional actors.