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- 1219 Vine Street Floor 3 Philadelphia PA 19107 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Education, Theater
Mission: To tap the potential of youth and inspire learning through playwriting. Philadelphia Young Playwrights is an intensive arts-education program that pairs a professional teaching artist with a classroom teacher. The two work together as an Artistic Team, guiding and supporting students in the process of writing a play. The program fosters student learning, exploring and succeeding, promotes literacy, creativity, problem solving, self-esteem, theater skills, and motivation for students with varying academic abilities in grades 3-12. Each student completes a on-act play.
Results: More than 2,100 students are served directly at as many as 50 program sites each year. More than 60 prominent playwrights and many other professional theatre artists have served as teaching artists over the years. Nearly all Philadelphia’s professional and university theatre companies regularly participate by developing and co-producing performances of students’ plays. More than 60,000 students have seen peers’ work produced in class or by professionals since 1987. As many as 1,000 students each year submit their plays to Young Playwrights’ Annual Playwriting Festival. 60 educators, writers, theatre artists, parents and former Young Playwrights students form the Literary Committee. They read and and provide individualized written feedback for each student script submitted to the Annual Playwriting Festival. Over 800 submissions were read by the Literary Committee in 2014.
Target demographics: tap the potential of youth and inspire learning through playwriting.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 2,100 Students in 90 classrooms
Geographic areas served: the 5-county Philadelphia region.
Programs: In-class playwrighting programsProfessional production of playwright contest winners, in coordination with education of students in playwriting and creative thinking through various workshop programs