NEW VOICES
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Sponsored by The Norton Foundation
With additional support from the Gannett Foundation,
Councilman Kevin Kramer, Councilman James Peden
and Councilwoman Mary C. Woolridge.

Actors Education is pleased to announce the 2010 NEW VOICES Young Playwrights Festival plays & playwrights. Congratulations to all 410 playwrights from around our region who entered this year’s New Voices
ten-minute play contest. Details will be posted on our website later this summer regarding our submission process to the 2011 New Voices contest and festival.

In the meantime, we invite you to bring a friend and join us for the
5th annual New Voices Young Playwrights Festival, on April 12 and 13
in the Bingham Theatre. The event is free but ticketed; please call the box office at 502-584-1205 to request your tickets.


The New Voices Young Playwrights Festival will feature the Acting Apprentice Company in the following plays:

The Wait is Always Scary by Hannah Jones,
Muhlenberg County High School, Greenville, Ky.

Finale by Trey DiNoto,
Providence Junior-Senior High School, Clarksville, In.

Sets by Max Abner,
Youth Performing Arts School, Louisville, Ky.

HP LaserJet 6P/6MP Postscript by Noah Park,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.

The Curious Case of Ashes and Posy by Sheila Watson,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.

Calcu-Clash by Nisa Jones,
Louisville Male High School, Louisville, Ky.

5 Sure Fire Ways to Finally Get the Girl by Erica Schmidt,
Bethlehem High School, Bardstown, Ky.

A Creation of Small Proportions by Josh Wiersema,
North Oldham High School, Goshen, Ky.

The Threepenny Space Opera by Jackson Wolford,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
The Tortoise and the Hare by Jordan Golding,
Atherton High School, Louisville, Ky.

Kongaloosh by Daniel Tuma
Moore Traditional High School, Louisville, Ky.

Frederick and William Stop the Terrible Thing by Tyler Samples
Providence Junior-Senior High School, Clarksville, In.

What is a New Voices residency?
Aimed at teaching the basics of playwriting, New Voices is a classroom residency program guiding middle and high school students through the process of writing a ten-minute play. In the 2008-2009 school year, 450 students participated in eighteen residencies throughout fifteen schools. Our annual New Voices Young Playwrights Contest is open to ten-minute plays written in our residency program as well as those written independently. Winning plays are developed and fully produced in an evening of world premieres performed on stage at Actors Theatre by members of the Acting Apprentice Company. These plays are then published in our annual New Voices Anthology of student-written work.

2009 NEW VOICES PLAYS
Vanilla by Jordan Golding, Atherton High School
What is Normal? by Patrick O'Rourke, Trinity High School
The Spy Who Never Loved Me by Peytone Lightfoot, Atherton High School
Imagination by Anabelle Horton, Jeffersonville High School
Shrink by Craig Brauner, Trinity High School
Picture Perfect by Audrey Simpson, Oldham County High
The Never Before Seen Interview of Norman McClellan by Max Abner, St. Francis School
Sugarless by Brittany Henderson, Louisville Male Traditional High School



  Picture Perfect
  by Audrey Simpson
  directed by Steven Rahe








  Vanilla
  by Jordan Golding
  directed by Lila Neugebauer









  The Never Before Seen Interivew of Norman McClellan
  by Max Abner
  directed by Anna Kull









  Imagination
  by Annabelle Horton
  directed by Jeffrey Mosser









  Sugarless
  by Brittany Henderson
  directed by Amy Attaway








  Shrink
  by Craig Brauner
  directed by Jacob Stoebel








  The Spy Who Never Loved Me
  by Peytone Lightfoot
  directed by Julie Mercurio








  What Is Normal?
  by Patrick O'Rourke
  directed by Brendan Pelsue






2008 NEW VOICES PLAYS
Public, private and parochial school students throughout Kentucky and Indiana submitted more than 250 ten-minute plays to the New Voices Ten-Minute Play contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ten plays written by high school students were selected as winners of the festival, while three were chosen as Honorable Mentions.

Winning Plays
A Hypothetical Situation by Caitlin Willenbrink, DuPont Manual High
American Beer by Neil Carter, Louisville Male High
Behind the Yellow Brick Road by Leyla Nouri, Atherton High
Gin by Laura Garrett, Atherton High
Gin and Tonic by Jackson Wolford, DuPont Manual High
Little Miracles by Lusie Cuskey, Atherton High (book & lyrics) and Nicole Carlson (score), Ballard High
Sessions by Leah Blair, Louisville Male High
The Laurel by Max Newland, Youth Performing Arts School
What Doesn’t Kill You by Ramey Monem, North Oldham High
Write of Passage by Shawn Hughes, Jr., Meade County High

Honorable Mention
Measure Still for Measure by Jacob Lyle and Wes Laudeman, Trinity
High Talk Politics by Morgan Sinnard, Atherton High
Dependent by Tara Duffy, Ballard High