Young Playwrights for Change

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"You hold in your hands (whether literal or virtual) the culmination of Young Playwrights for Change's inaugural year, which took on the ever-present topic of bullying. Theatre for Young Audiences/USA and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, two of the leading organizations in the American theatre for young audiences field, launched Young Playwrights for Change in order to produce meaningful conversations that will ripple across our nation to provoke change. The fourteen middle school playwrights in this collection participated in workshops on the local and regional level and, as Mary Hall Surface writes in the Introduction, "have harnessed their imaginations to create places that are achingly real, as well as wildly imaginative." Each play was submitted to the national contest. The winning and runner-up plays -- Michael Ford's Nerdy Nate and the Anti-Bullying Quest, and Chloe Rust's Bullies Anonymous -- open the collection, making way for all of our talented playwrights. We welcome you to read these plays aloud in your classroom or school auditorium; around the dinner table with your family; with close friends and potential new friends; or to yourself in your bedroom or favorite quiet space. We hope our young playwrights inspire all who experience their stories: students, educators, artists, family members, audience members, everyone. Thank you for supporting all of young playwrights who tell their stories." --