Young Playwrights' Theater

"Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT) is a DC-based arts education organization and theater company that inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices. Young Playwrights' Theater believes that creative expression and theater are valuable tools for the education, enrichment, and self-actualization of young people. Through our programs and productions, we fulfill their creative vision by hiring professional artists to guide and perform original youth-generated work for their peers and for the public. YPT believes that it is important that youth, especially those whose voices are often minimized, have access to high-quality arts education that centers their experience and is culturally competent and affirming for all young people involved. In order to do this work, YPT acknowledges oppression and reduces its harm through our internal and external structures and practices. YPT believes that young people are inherently brilliant and we exist to share that brilliance with the world."