What happens when a professional theater company produces 85 plays written by playwrights ages 8-18?
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Plays seriously workshopped at Writopia Lab this school year, and the winning plays from nearly 100 outside submissions, will be professionally produced--performed by professional actors and directed by NY’s elite theater professionals--at the 45th Street Theatre and at 59E59 Theaters in May as part of our 2012 Worldwide Plays Festival.
How Did this Amazing Thing Happen?
This is the thrid year that Writopia Lab has produced a festival of plays. David Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Inc., began funding our annual festival last year. Worldwide Pants has again granted us $50,000 to produce our writers' poignant, entertaining, and sometimes hilarious works!
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We have 85 plays to produce within budget. All money from ticket sales goes directly into our 2012 theater festival budget. Buy Tickets!
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Highlights
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Our playwrights include 2012 Scholastic Awards' National Gold Medalists, and the top winners of several other prestigious competitions.
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Our directors include: Terry Berliner (resident director of Broadway's The Lion King);Kevin R. Free (One of theNYTheatre.com15 people of 2010, because of his “outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the New York theatre scene.”)
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For the second time, Writopia has opened the festival to writers beyond Writopia throughout the tri-state area. Of nearly 100 submissions, Writopia will choose six plays to include in our two-week festival; all playwrights will receive notification and critiques of their plays within the next week.
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On Sunday, May 20 at 6pm, we will host a panel discussion where you will be able to ask established playwrights your own questions.
Worldwide Plays, 2012 Theater Company
Led by Artistic Director Dan Kitrosser, the Worldwide Plays 2012 Theater Company includes well-known directors, including the Lion King's Terry Berliner, as well as professional actors and designers.
What is Writopia Lab?
Writopia Lab is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in New York City in April of 2007. We run creative writing workshops for kids ages 8 to 18. All of our workshops have a maximum of six students and are led by a published writer who has been fully trained in our time-tested methodology. In each of the past three years, more kids from Writopia Lab have been recognized on both the regional and national levels by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards than from any other school in the nation. Also, in 2008, 2009, and 2010 our students have won multiple "Best Play" awards from Stephen Sondheim's Write A Play! festival.
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