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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 09:59AM New Plays for Children and Young People is a periodical that presents Polish and international contemporary drama. The source of the dramas varies but the majority come from the Theatre Plays Competition organised annually by the Children’s Art Centre in Poznań.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 09:21AM The American Alliance for Theatre and Education has recently announced the 2013 Disttinguished Play Awards. There are four categories by age-range of play, and five plays from four playwrights are the worthy winners.
Congratulations to all these fine writers for these lovely scripts.
Gabriel Jason Dean, The Transition of Doodle Pequeno
Qui Nguyen, She Kills Monsters
Cheryl West, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Y York, Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly
Y York, Getting Near To Baby
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:25PM WLPG is pleased and honored to announce the 21 writers from 13 countries selected for WLPG Sparks (Linz) – Catalysts for Discovery
We put out a call for 500-word original monologues following a ‘prompt’ relating to the overall theme of catalysts for discovery. Austrian playwright Holger Schober joined WLPG co-editors Tony Mack, Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas and Kim Peter Kovac in making the selection from several dozen entries. The monologues will be read at the ASSITEJ International Meeting in Linz – playwrights will read in their first language and English translations will be provided.
The playwrights:
Languages – Arabic, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Russian, Spanish
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 08:24AM Below are links to three terrific articles about playwriting for young audiences in Poland. Three more coming shortly.
Many thanks to Zbigniew Rudzinski for working with WLPG to find these articles, obtain permission to reproduce them, and having them translated.
Investigating the World
Katarzyna Grajewska talks with Tadeusz Pajdała and Zbigniew Rudziński about contemporary playwriting in Poland, seen through the lens of the very important new play competition sponsored by the Children's Art Center in Poznań. Read the full interview.
Magnifying Glass and Ear, by Liliana Bardijewska. One of Poland's best-known playwrights for young audiences reflects on adaptation, puppet theatre, wordless plays, and the state of playwriting in her country. Read the full article.
Young, Polish, Naive by Malina Przesluga. A writer often referred to in the media as a 'young Polish playwright reflects on the field and her approach to writing. Read the full article.
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 06:11PM The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which coordinates programs among some 800 college and university theater departments, has named 'And Then Came Tango' by WLPG member playwright Emily Freeman, as outstanding theater for young audiences play.
Freeman is finishing her third year in the MFA in Drama and Theatre for Young and Communities at the University of Texas at Austin. All of the Write Local Play Global community joins in congratulating Emily.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 03:28PM We are delighted to announce a new partnership and a new initiative. WLPG Sparks (Linz): Catalysts for Discovery is a collaborative project between Write Local. Play Global, the international TYA playwrights network, and ASSITEJ Austria toward the creation of original 500 word monologues on the theme of creative catalysts. The selected pieces will be read by the playwrights at the ASSITEJ International Meeting which is being held from June 21-29, 2013 during the International Theater Festival SCHÄXPIR in Linz, Austria.
Download guidelines aand application in a writeable PDF.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 07:33AM The National Play Festival 2013, produced by PlayWriting Australia, is in Perth 21-24 February. This is important to WLPG members both because it's all about new work, and even more so this year, because there's a major focus on writing for young audiences.
New PlayWriting Australia Artistic Director Tim Roseman: "This year there are 7 showcase readings, 4 emerging WA playwrights in our Re-gen presentation, 2 readings of plays by US writers as part of our exchange with the National New Play Network and a retrospective of the work of the sorely-missed Deckchair Theatre. There are three public forums and four industry sessions where we’ll be getting passionate, gut-punchy and inspired. We’ve international guests from the USA, Singapore, New Zealand and the UK. And on top of all this, we’re part of the Perth International Arts Festival."
Three of the readings are new plays for young audiences:
Close, by Kit Brookman
Love Boy, by Casey Nicholls
M Rock, by Lachlan Philpott
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 03:33PM Write Local. Play Global. is delighted to announce the plays that will be read at TYA/USA’s One Theatre World conference in May, held in collaboration with the Cleveland International Children’s Festival. We received over two dozen submissions of original plays from playwrights in seven countries. The following will be read on the evening of May 9, 2013:
Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 10:40PM 
Liz Skitch and David Megarrity, 2000'Building music into a creative process gives your unfinished work a ‘finish’. It’s fun to work with and makes you feel less like a doofus when you’re a performer doing silly things onstage in rehearsal. It’s like jumping around on a springy bed – it lifts you up, but is there to catch you.'
In this blog, Australian theatremaker and composer David Megarrity, describes how music can be a vital part of developing a performance:
http://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/backseat-drivers-music-driven/
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 04:17PM Playwright Suzan Zeder, Director Linda Hartzell, and Deaf Actor/ASL Master Billy Seago have been working
for thirty years on 'The Ware Trilogy': Mother Hicks, A Taste of Sunrise, and now, The Edge of Peace soon to premiere at the University of Texas at Austin.
Interviews with Suzan and director Linda Hartzell here