Philadelphia Young Playwrights taps the potential of youth and inspires learning through playwriting.

Young Playwrights focuses on:

• Improving students’ writing, thinking and interactive skills
• Enhancing students’ sense of agency, responsibility and self-esteem
• Modeling new, effective ways of teaching
• Reaching students of diverse backgrounds and abilities
• Engaging students, their families and communities in the creation and production of theatre, while building new theatre audiences within these groups.