High School Playwriting Contest Play Reading

JAN 21 at 2PM | DC Public Library’s Petworth Neighborhood Library Branch

Mosaic uplifts the next generation of playwrights through its High School Playwriting Contest, providing mentorship, instruction, and a professionally-guided reading of the winning play with a director and working actors. Join us for a reading of the top submissions of the 2022-2023 Season High School Playwriting Contest, loving u is complicated. a one woman breakdown. by Moyo Ifafore; Lessons Learned by Paint Strokes
by Hannah You; and Stop and Think. Please. by Ash O'Keefe.

Tickets are not required to attend this event. The reading is free, general admission, and open to the public.

Part of the Catalyst New Play Festival. This inagural festival will include panels, workshops, and public presentations of works-in-progress by local and national writers, including Max and Willy’s Last Laugh. The Catalyst New Play Festival ushers in a new chapter of Mosaic’s commitment to connecting DMV audiences with thought provoking new work at all stages of development. In the 2022-2023 Season and under the Catalyst Series umbrella, Mosaic will launch the inaugural Catalyst New Play Festival, produce presentations of works in progress, and commission writers to create bold new work.

The High School Playwriting Contest is generously underwritten by Frank Guzzetta & Paul Manville and Leonade Jones, and is produced in collaboration with the DC Public Library.

The Catalyst New Play Festival is generously underwritten by Julie and David Zalkind.

Mosaic is thrilled to honor the following young playwrights in the 2022-2023 Season High School Playwriting Contest:

1st Place
loving u is complicated. a one woman breakdown.
by Moyo Ifafore
Duke Ellington School of the Arts

2nd Place
Lessons Learned by Paint Strokes
by Hannah You
Montgomery Blair High School

Honorable Mention
His Memory
by Nahliyah Saunders
Chesapeake Math & IT Charter Academy