The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation presents the 2023 YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
City Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival stages professional productions of six winning, one-act plays chosen from nearly 400 Young Playwrights Contest submissions.

Saturday, October 28
1:00 PM High School Performance
6:00 PM Middle School Performance

Sunday, October 29
1:00 PM Middle School Performance
6:00 PM High School Performance

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Change is Challenging
by Bella Bischof
7th grade, Keystone Oaks Middle School
Audrina is a girl who hates change. She hasn’t cut her hair since she was a child and still refuses to cut it, even though it is now overwhelmed with dead ends and tangles! As Audrina struggles to accept the need for change, her hair itself might turn out to be just the voice of reason she needs.

Good Soup
by Madelyn Koehler
7th grade, Keystone Oaks Middle School
Day in and day out, Waiter serves soup to customers who can’t stop raving about how delicious it is. But every day, he is tragically never allowed to try it for himself and enough is enough. How far will he go for a taste?

The Silver Stamped Letters
by Tyler Dufalla
8th grade, Belle Vernon Middle School
Loraine has been receiving strange letters, each containing play scripts of her life from the day before. Determined to find out who and what is behind them, she teams up with her friend, Spencer, to uncover puzzling secrets about their town, unaware that what they find could transform reality for good.

HIGH SCHOOL

Of Birds and Worms
by Andrew Hall
10th grade, Westinghouse Arts Academy
Bird and Worm aren’t destined to be friends. So why do they seem to be just what each other needs? This witty play explores their unlikely bond and reminds us how friendship can bloom in the most unexpected places.

One Hell of an Intern
by Danielle Swearingen
11th grade, PPS CAPA 6-12
Liam is an intern in Hell, contractually obligated to cause havoc in people’s lives. But when doing good seems to happen for him on accident, he starts to realize that this internship may not be allowing him to live up to his full potential.

Trolley 
by Cherish Erb-White
10th grade, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School
This compelling, thought-provoking play takes us to “The Middle ”, a temporary dimension everyone must encounter after they die, where Drea has just woken up unexpectedly. Startled and confused, she must make a decision that will determine far more than just her own fate.