Home Mailing List Contents Search Contact Us

Buy Our Books

 

Home
News
YPF XXIV
Productions
Competitions
Writing Workshops
Staff Development
Summer Program
Sondheim on YPI
Buy Our Books
Try This!
Support YPI
Rehearsal Space
Jobs/Internships
Behind The Scenes

YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PUBLISHING

Looking for the voice of the next millennium? Need new material for the drama club or competition? Want to add dramatic literature to your curriculum? Just want a good read? Young Playwrights Publishing offers acting editions of plays (all by writers aged 18 or younger) produced Off Broadway in YPI’s Young Playwrights Festival. Bookmark this page — new titles will be added regularly!

NB: Online ordering is not yet available. To order any of these books, please contact YPI.

I’m Not Stupid by David E. Rodriguez. First produced in the 1991 Young Playwrights Festival, this three-character (1f, 2m) play about the dysfunctional relationship between a mother, her emotionally disturbed son, and the psychiatrist entrusted with his care. Written by a 17-year old New York City public high school student, this play earned actor S. Epatha Merkerson (Law and Order) an Obie Award.

$5.00

The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeleine George. (4f) An abstract and provocative study of four women facing issues of body image. Monologues from this play are often used for auditions and acting classes.

$5.00

Sonata by Elizabeth Hirschhorn. (2m, 1f, 1g, 1b) A startling and eerie examination of the changes experienced by a couple whose only child is missing.

$5.00

The Basement at the Bottom at the End of the World by Nadine Graham. (1f,1m) Two teenagers are forced to confront racial stereotypes and the gender divide as the struggle to survive in this apocalyptic tragi-comedy.

$5.00

COMING SOON: Guyworld by Bret LaGree. (4m) This funny and knowing nod to David Mamet focuses on the barroom musings of three buddies planning a men-only utopia.

$5.00

 

Postage and handling for Young Playwrights Publishing is $2.00 for the first volume and $1.00 for each additional volume.

 

ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS INC. :
Teaching Young Playwrights by Gerald Chapman. Heinemann Books, 1991. Classroom anecdotes, inspiration, and how-to by YPI’s first Artistic Director.

$15.00

Sparks In The Park and Other Prize-winning Plays from the 1987 and 1988 Young Playwrights Festivals, edited by Wendy Lamb. Dell Books.

$4.00

The Ground Zero Club and Other Prize-winning Plays from the 1985 and 1986 Young Playwrights Festival, edited by Wendy Lamb. Dell Books.

$4.00


News ] YPF XXIV ] Productions ] Competitions ] Writing Workshops ] Staff Development ] Summer Program ] Sondheim on YPI ] [ Buy Our Books ] Try This! ] Support YPI ] Rehearsal Space ] Jobs/Internships ] Behind The Scenes ]
 
Hit Counter
Send mail to admin@youngplaywrights.org with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © Young Playwrights Inc.
Last modified:  December 18, 2007 04:01 PM