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Introducing the 27th annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival
This year marks our 27th season of creating original one-act plays with the students of our town through the annual Madison Young Playwrights Program (MYPP). The MYPP strives to share the creative work of our young playwrights with the larger community culminating in the Madison Festival, currently scheduled for March 2013. Additional details about the Festival will be forthcoming.
The MYPP is offered to students in grades 4-8. Students at all participating schools enjoy ten (10) weeks of playwriting with a professional theatre artist. Class time involves creative writing, improvisation and revision. After the ten-week program, certain plays will be selected for presentation during the Madison Festival, which involves the playwrights in the revision and rehearsal processes.
Students are also encouraged to enter their play into the NJ Young Playwrights Festival, a statewide competition organized by Playwrights Theatre. In past years, Madison students had their plays selected for this statewide honor. More information on the next Contest/Festival is available online at www.njypf.org.
Playwriting classes will be held at your child's school one day a week beginning in October and ending in December or January. Please note that classes are not held on holidays, or other vacation days. Schedules for each school are listed on the chart below.
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School
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Day/Time
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Start Date
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End Date
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No class
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Central Avenue
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Wednesdays
3:15–4:45 p.m.
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October 3
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December 19
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November 7
November 21
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Kings Road
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Wednesdays
3:15–4:45 p.m.
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October 3
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December 19
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November 7
November 21
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Torey J. Sabatini
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Wednesdays
3:15–4:45 p.m.
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October 3
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December 19
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November 7
November 21
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St. Vincent Martyr
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Wednesdays
3:00–4:30 p.m.
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October 17
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January 16
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October 31
November 21
December 26
January 2
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Junior School
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Wednesdays
3:00–4:30 p.m.
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October 3
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December 19
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November 7
November 21
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Please make note of this schedule when choosing to register your child for the program.
You can sign up your child by filling out the registration form below.
Applications for the St. Vincent Martyr School are currently being accepted.
Although the registration deadline for all other schools has passed for this year, there is still some room available in each school program. New students may enter the class through the third session of the program. If you are interested in adding your child to the MYPP at one of the schools above, please contact the Education office at Playwrights Theatre at 973-514-1787, ext. 21 or education@ptnj.org.
You will receive confirmation from Playwrights Theatre of your child’s participation in the program.
The Madison Young Playwrights Program is offered to Madison school students free of charge! We look forward to working with you and your child during an exciting year of fun and creativity.
An in-school residency program is currently being planned for certain English classrooms at Madison High School.
27th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Program Registration Form
Presented in association with the Madison Board of Education and sponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/A Partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the F.M. Kirby Foundation, Travelers Foundation, Dalba, Goeller and Company, LLP, The Pearsall Family Foundation, Madison Rotary Club, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and the Madison Board of Education.
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