Playwrights Project

Teaching Programs 801 students and 138 teachers across San Diego County received instruction in playwriting, strengthening skills in written and verbal communication and creative expression, and promoting theatre as a tool for education and community building. 42 individuals attended culminating performances of participants plays.

Out of the Yard Arts in Corrections program 222 currently or formerly incarcerated adults wrote individual plays during workshops or commissions writers scripts were performed for 1,608 audience members inside facilities and out in the public, including live productions at SDSU, SD Rep a national conference, encouraging communication, building self efficacy, inspiring creativity, advancing literacy skills, honoring the resilience of the human spirit, and educating the general public about life in the correctional system.

Production Play Festival Playwrights Project professional production of the 37th season of the Plays by Young Writers Festival presented winning scripts from our California Young Playwrights Contest actors performed without an audience and the plays were filmed for online viewing due to continuing Covid concerns. Four plays by writers age 15 to 18 were fully produced, and one play by writers age 12 was a staged reading. Performances were streamed to classrooms for school groups 1,507 viewed 1 public digital screening 111 viewed, and 1 in-person screening at the Salvation Armys Kroc Theatre attended by 117.