Trinity Rep Announces 'Write Here, Write Now!' Student Playwright Selection

Trinity Repertory Company's Education Department has announced the winners of their second annual Write Here, Write Now! Student Playwriting Competition.

This year's winning plays are:
Revelation by Bonnie Atterstrom, Framingham High School in Framingham, MA
Bloom In December by Kirby Kochanowski, Rogers High School in Newport, RI
Revision by Andy Letai, Medfield High School in Medfield, MA

The competition was launched last year by Trinity Rep's Education Department, and solicits ten-minute plays from high school students across New England. This year, nearly one-hundred students from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island submitted plays.

"This year's competition received the same number of scripts as its inaugural year," said Education Outreach Coordinator Michael Williams, "and the plays were outstanding. Students wrote and submitted plays to us with incredible depth, poetry, comedy and compassion."

"Entire classes submitted this year," Williams continues. "Teachers have begun to incorporate playwriting into their creative writing curriculum, with the added bonus of submitting the work to Write Here, Write Now! We couldn't be happier with this year's crop!"
Honorable mentions were awarded to the play Choo Choo Me Home by Carrie Miller from Framingham High School in Framingham, MA and The Gospel of Thad by Ahmer Kidwai from Moses Brown School in Providence, RI.

Winning playwrights will receive a scholarship towards any Trinity Rep Young Actors Studio after-school class as well as 20 tickets for their school to attend a Project Discovery student matinee performance next season. Additionally, winning playwrights will have the opportunity to further develop their work with the members of the theater's creative staff before seeing their plays performed on the Dowling Stage at Trinity Rep.

The staged readings of the winning scripts will take place on Monday, April 8th at 7:30pm on the Dowling Theater stage at Trinity Rep. Acting in the readings will be Trinity Rep company members and graduate students from the Brown/Trinity MFA Programs.