Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre Company is set to host its 26th Annual New South Young Playwrights Festival from June 2-8.
According to a press release, the Inman Park theater company selected 23 young aspiring playwrights to attend the week-long festival. The selected students will take part in workshops and seminars with professional theater actors, directors and playwrights.
“The New South Young Playwrights Festival is a treasured tradition for Horizon Theatre,” said Horizon Theatre Co-Artistic/Producing Director Lisa Adler in the release. “We take great pleasure in raising up the next generation of playwrights, and every year we’re blown away by their talent. The future is in good hands with these bright, young minds!”
During the festival, the students will be asked to draft a new short play that will be performed in a public reading on June 8 at 2 p.m. at Horizon Theatre. The performance is free and open to the public.
This year’s leading artists for the festival are Chisa Hutchinson and Crystal Skillman. According to the release, Hutchinson is a playwright and screenwriter who also teaches at the University of Delaware. Skillman is a playwright and a professor at The New School and Pace University. The festival will also be led by four associate teaching artists who are pursuing their MFAs in playwriting: Peter Chansky, Katie Kirk, Cameron Noel and Julissa Mishay Norment.
This year’s festival participants are:
- Ashadé Altine of Wellesley College
- Jess Anoruigwe of the University of Texas at Arlington
- Bridget Blanchard of the University of Georgia
- Miriam Campbell of Bennington College
- Toni Colbert of the University of Texas at Arlington
- Spencer Daniels of Emerson College
- Tomi Fawehinmi of the School of the Arts at Central Gwinnett High School
- Ian Gadapee of Palm Beach Atlantic University
- Mando Gonzalvez of Point Park University
- Loey Jones-Perpich of Emerson College
- Myles Keys of Ball State University
- Anna Kraffmiller of Wellesley College
- Eloise Langan of Dartmouth College
- Amari Lewis of Kennesaw State University
- Angel Lin of the University of Virginia
- Hamad Naroze of Hunter College
- Hannah Reynolds of Wake Forest University
- Jhonn Rusic of Columbia College Chicago
- Bella Smith of University of Georgia
- Sam Lee Victor of University of North Carolina School of the Arts
- Lain Walls of Marymount Manhattan College
- Emma Winiarski of Emerson College
- Isaac Woon of Hunter College