Ensemble Theatre Company is thrilled to announce that functions 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 following 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 contributors will craft a 10-minute play inside a supportive and galvanizing setting. Under the steerage {of professional} administrators and actors, these authentic works will probably be publicly introduced, bringing younger voices to the forefront of our neighborhood’s theatrical scene.
Program Overview:
YPF is structured in three complete phases:
Phase One:
Students attend weekly 2-hour periods, which will probably be held each in-person and on Zoom, beginning January 11, 2025. These periods 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, helping them by way of 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 probably 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 observe the pageant within the New Vic Courtyard.
Throughout this system, college students will be taught dramatic composition rules, develop authentic performs, and have interaction in collaborative inventive periods. The program will culminate with their work being delivered to 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 contributors
Don’t miss this chance to discover your inventive potential and contribute to the way forward for theater.
Apply right this moment by visiting Young Playwrights Festival – ETC on the New Vic.
This tuition-free program is accessible to all aspiring playwrights, guaranteeing everybody has the prospect to embark on this inventive journey.
The ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY is Santa Barbara’s sole skilled theater firm, enriching the neighborhood with skilled theatrical occasions that entertain, educate, provoke thought, ignite creativeness, and encourage dialog. A premier regional theater, ETC embraces the creation of recent works. ETC additionally presents modern productions of traditional performs that enchantment to and have interaction a various neighborhood. Through outreach occasions, the group develops the neighborhood’s data and appreciation of reside stage productions. And it offers a spread of academic packages for native college students.
ETC has been house to a number of world, American, and West Coast premieres and has acquired recognition and accolades all through its enduring historical past. ETC operates below 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 most important skilled theatre affiliation representing 80 of essentially the most prestigious regional theatres within the nation. For extra info, go to etcsb.org.
Photo Credit: Minh Tran: Actor Sophia Ross at ETC Young Playwrights Festival 2021