Ensemble Theatre Company is thrilled to announce that purposes at the moment are open for the 2025 Young Playwrights Festival. Designed for aspiring playwrights aged 14-19, this tuition-free program is a cornerstone of ETC’s dedication to nurturing the subsequent technology of storytellers. The 2025 Young Playwrights Festival provides a transformative inventive expertise that’s essential to making sure a vibrant future for American theater.
The Festival is a four-month journey the place individuals will craft a 10-minute play inside a supportive and provoking setting. Under the steering {of professional} administrators and actors, these unique works will likely be publicly offered, bringing younger voices to the forefront of our group’s theatrical scene.
Program Overview:
YPF is structured in three complete phases:
Phase One:
Students attend weekly 2-hour classes, which will likely be held each in-person and on Zoom, beginning January 11, 2025. These classes will cowl playwriting fundamentals, the evolution of American theater, and drama’s key rules. Participants will full a tough draft of their play by March 15, 2025.
Phase Two:
In April, college students obtain personalised mentorship from skilled playwrights, aiding them via the revision course of, with the ultimate draft. Final drafts are due by April 20, 2025.
Phase Three:
Students will interact in a casting session on April 26, 2025. Casting will likely be adopted by rehearsals from April 28 to May 9, main as much as the ultimate rehearsal and efficiency day on May 10, 2025. A post-show reception will comply with the pageant within the New Vic Courtyard.
Throughout this system, college students will study dramatic composition rules, develop unique performs, and interact in collaborative inventive classes. The program will culminate with their work being dropped at life on stage.
Application Process:
· Deadline for Applications: Sunday, December 1, 2024
· Notification of Results: By Sunday, December 20, 2024
· Participant Requirements: Ages 14-19
· Program Limit: 10 individuals
Don’t miss this chance to discover your inventive potential and contribute to the way forward for theater.
Apply at the moment by visiting Young Playwrights Festival – ETC on the New Vic.
This tuition-free program is accessible to all aspiring playwrights, making certain everybody has the possibility to embark on this inventive journey.
The ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY is Santa Barbara’s sole skilled theater firm, enriching the group with skilled theatrical occasions that entertain, educate, provoke thought, ignite creativeness, and encourage dialog. A premier regional theater, ETC embraces the creation of latest works. ETC additionally presents revolutionary productions of basic performs that enchantment to and interact a various group. Through outreach occasions, the group develops the group’s information and appreciation of reside stage productions. And it gives a spread of instructional applications for native college students.
ETC has been residence to a number of world, American, and West Coast premieres and has acquired recognition and accolades all through its enduring historical past. ETC operates underneath an settlement with Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union for American actors and state managers, and in 2024 grew to become the latest member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the biggest skilled theatre affiliation representing 80 of essentially the most prestigious regional theatres within the nation. For extra data, go to etcsb.org.
Photo Credit: Minh Tran: Actor Sophia Ross at ETC Young Playwrights Festival 2021