YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS INC. TO HAND OUT AWARDS
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2005
TO NEW YORK CITY’S YOUNGEST PLAYWRIGHTS --
WINNERS OF THE 2005 WRITE A PLAY! NYC CONTEST
Featured speakers to include:
B.D.WONG, ACTOR/AUTHOR
CARMEN FARIÑA, DEPUTY
CHANCELLOR FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Hosted by NANCY GILES, ACTOR/WRITER/COMEDIAN
Young
Playwrights Inc. (YPI),
founded in 1981 by Broadway composer and lyricist
Stephen Sondheim,
is pleased to announce the
WRITE A
PLAY!
NYC
Awards Ceremony a celebration of New York City student playwrights and
their plays, this
Tuesday, June 7,
2005 from
4:00pm to 5:30pm at the
Donnell Library, 20 West 53rd
Street
in Manhattan.
Featured speakers will include
B.D. Wong, actor/author;
Carmen
Fariña,
Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, New York City Department of
Education;
Madeleine George, playwright and co-founder of the 2005
OBIE Award-winning 13P; and former winners of the Young Playwrights National
Playwriting Competition and WRITE A PLAY! NYC. The awards ceremony will
be hosted by
Nancy Giles,
actor/writer/comedian and writer/commentator on CBS News Sunday Morning.
The ceremony will
celebrate the achievements of over 300 New York City public, private,
and independent school students who submitted original plays to
this year’s WRITE A PLAY! NYC
contest. An audience of student playwrights and their teachers, friends, family
members will salute the 9 student winners (three in each of three divisions:
Elementary School (Grades K-5), Middle School (Grades 6-8), and High School
(Grades 9-12) and 11 students who received honorable mentions.
Excerpts from all 9 award-winning
plays will be performed by professional actors.
All contest entrants will receive written evaluations of their plays and
Certificates of Merit. All awards ceremony attendees will receive special gift
bags and have the chance to win door prizes.
Admission to the
2005
WRITE A PLAY! Awards Ceremony is free,
but seats are limited and
reservations are required.
RSVP to Young Playwrights Inc. at (212) 594-5440. For more about Young
Playwrights Inc.’s
WRITE A
PLAY!
NYC
contest and other YPI programs in New York City and throughout the United
States, please call (212) 594-5440 or log onto
www.youngplaywrights.org.
WRITE
A PLAY! NYC 2005
Elementary School
Division - Winners
The Point
By Charlotte Cwikowski
P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson (Manhattan)
A Drummer’s Dilemma
By Zachary Vail Elkind
Hunter College Elementary School (Manhattan)
Comical Chaos
By Sofia Johnson
P.S. 29 John M. Harrigan (Brooklyn)
Middle School Division
- Winners
The Town of Strife
By Abigail Savitch-Lew
J.H.S. 51 William Alexander (Brooklyn)
AY or The Bagel and Hummus Chronicles
By Rose Seccareccia
The Cathedral School (Manhattan)
The Amazin’ Adventures of Toothless Hank and Frankie da Cricket
By Charlie W.S. Shelton
J.H.S. 51 William Alexander (Brooklyn)
High School Division -
Winners
Lying Awake
By Rachel Bayefsky-Anand
Solomon Schechter High School (Manhattan)
With Peaces Eyes
By Alejandro Puello
EBC Bushwick High School (Brooklyn)
The Un-Named Play
By Natan Skop
Homeschooled (Brooklyn)
Elementary School Division – Honorable Mention
I Wanna Be Me
By Emma Holland and Hayley Quinn
Muscota New School (Manhattan)
A Horrible Memory
By Daniella Logozzo and Thomas Quinn
P.S. 312K Bergen Beach (Brooklyn)
2
Different Worlds
By Rebecca Telfort
P.S. 198K
Middle
School Division – Honorable Mention
Shakespeare Returns
By Barnaby
Harold Johnnes
J.H.S. 51K
(Brooklyn)
Valdergof
By Michael Vincent Rosen-Pipitone
J.H.S. 51K
(Brooklyn)
Differences
By Cindy Vo
J.H.S. 135X Frank D. Whalen (Bronx)
High
School Division - Honorable Mentions
Hidden Poetry
By Karina Billini
Leon M. Goldstein High School (Brooklyn)
Most Impressive Betty
By Daniel Blondell
LaGuardia High School (Manhattan)
The Machine Extremity
By Sam
Caravaglia
Brooklyn Friends School
Still Breathing
By Cat Lapham
Poly Prep Country Day High School
Saving Bennie
By Jacqueline Perez
High School of Fashion Industries (Manhattan) | 
