Young CA Writers' Project

The Mime Troupe is thrilled to have inherited this very successful education program from the Magic Theatre! Since 1994, the Young California Writers' Project (YCWP) has provided high school students with the opportunity to work with local playwrights in the development of their own short plays. Peers identify the top nine scripts from among the final bunch, and these are ultimately brought to life by professional actors and directors in public staged readings at a local theatre.

YTP Participants
Photographer: Liza M Frolkis
Above image from YTP 2009

In fall 2010, the Mime Troupe started its second year of administering YCWP at San Francisco's Balboa High School. As we did when we first picked the program up in 2009, we continued the program with the same staff of artists as when the Magic oversaw YCWP, and in collaboration with the same administrators and teachers at Balboa, who have come to view this program as a vital highlight in their students' academic year. A staged reading of the students' top plays was performed and directed by adult professionals. The program is free, and the public is welcome to attend!

The upcoming YCWP may be postponed until Winter/Spring of 2012.





If you are interested in bringing the Young California Writers' Project to your or your child's high school, please contact:

Michael Sullivan
michaelsullivan@sfmt.org
415-285-1717





This program is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency,
and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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