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Emerging Playwrights 2024 Competition Winners will have their scripts produced as full productions or staged readings at Riverwalk Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Festival on Saturday, August 3 at 7 pm on Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box Stage — free of charge — but donation$ are gladly accepted.
The playwrights will have an active role in bringing their scripts to life on Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box stage. “There is a lot of talent out there in our high schools,” said Tom Ferris, member of Riverwalk’s Emerging Playwrights committee. “We are excited to give area high school students a chance to show off their work.” More information is available on the Riverwalk Theatre website www.riverwalktheatre.com/emerging-playwrights
Five high school students have been named 2024 Emerging Playwrights winning $1000 prizes for writing short plays. This is the second year that Riverwalk Theatre has invited high school students in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties to compete in this contest. Students throughout the tri-county area submitted scripts vying for one of the five $1000 prizes. A panel of judges reviewed the scripts and selected the following students as winners of the competition:
• Evan Bywater, 12th grade, Lansing Eastern HS with the script Buddy’s Pizza
• Olivia Quiroga, 12th grade, Holt HS with the script Butterfly Grief (Olivia Quiroga was also named an Emerging Playwright in 2023.)
• Ella Reid, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Strangers Like Us
• Paulina Rivet, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Roses are Red
• Abigail Triantaflos, 11th grade, Ovid-Elsie HS with the script Women at Housework
Emerging Playwrights 2024 Competition Winners will have their scripts produced as full productions or staged readings at Riverwalk Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Festival on Saturday, August 3 at 7 pm on Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box Stage — free of charge — but donation$ are gladly accepted.
The playwrights will have an active role in bringing their scripts to life on Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box stage. “There is a lot of talent out there in our high schools,” said Tom Ferris, member of Riverwalk’s Emerging Playwrights committee. “We are excited to give area high school students a chance to show off their work.” More information is available on the Riverwalk Theatre website www.riverwalktheatre.com/emerging-playwrights
Five high school students have been named 2024 Emerging Playwrights winning $1000 prizes for writing short plays. This is the second year that Riverwalk Theatre has invited high school students in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties to compete in this contest. Students throughout the tri-county area submitted scripts vying for one of the five $1000 prizes. A panel of judges reviewed the scripts and selected the following students as winners of the competition:
• Evan Bywater, 12th grade, Lansing Eastern HS with the script Buddy’s Pizza
• Olivia Quiroga, 12th grade, Holt HS with the script Butterfly Grief (Olivia Quiroga was also named an Emerging Playwright in 2023.)
• Ella Reid, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Strangers Like Us
• Paulina Rivet, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Roses are Red
• Abigail Triantaflos, 11th grade, Ovid-Elsie HS with the script Women at Housework
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