Arkansas Young Playwrights Showcase

Featuring a new performance by the LatinX Theatre Project


About the showcase:

TheatreSquared is proud to present, for the seventh year, the Arkansas Young Playwrights Showcase. This year, T2 will feature three original short student works as well as a new performance by the LatinX Theatre Project. The LatinX Theatre Project promotes literacy, performing art, and other projects that focus on giving a voice to the Latin American community in Northwest Arkansas. Their inaugural work, Follow Me @ Tio Sam, was featured in the 2017 Arkansas New Play Festival. The group has received support for its work from the Walton Family Foundation, University of Arkansas Brown Chair of Literacy, Arts Center of the Ozarks, and Northwest Arkansas Community College. Performs Saturday, June 16, 11am at TheatreSquared. Free admission.

Young Playwrights Showcase:

Rose and the Cookie Class
by Madison Estevez
Lakeside High School
Hot Springs, Arkansas

Rose is excited to meet her friends for a cookie decorating class, but she must have taken a left turn somewhere.  

Prisoners
by Gage Pipkin
Westside High School
Jonesboro, Arkansas

This play explores the complicated territory of the legal system through the experiences of four inmates.  

Chekhov's Gun
by Charlotte McCombs
Fayetteville High School
Fayetteville, Arkansas 

A young woman waits anxiously in a doctor's office when a mysterious man appears with questionable motives and makes her even more nervous.


LatinX Theatre Project:

Blanket Statements

Writing credits:
(Playwright-in-residence) Ashley Edwards, Alex Nilsson, Betty Brutus, Damian Dena, Fernando Valdez, Laiken Montgomery, Martin Garay, Sativa Vela, Savannah Vaughan 

Cast:
Alex Nilsson, Betty Brutus, Damian Dena, Fernando Valdez, Martin Garay, Sativa Vela, Savannah Vaughan 

Creative Team: 
Playwright-in-residence: Ashley Edwards
Stage Manager: Felicia Deatherage 


Performances
Choose a performance time to purchase individual tickets:


6/16 at 11:00am at Theatresquared