Organizations Filed Purposes:
Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.
SILENCE IS VIOLENCE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS: YPT is the only professional theater dedicated entirely to arts education & producing student-written work. Each year, YPT produces an Annual Performance Series of student-written plays, which are attended by 1,000 audience members from across the region. This series includes Special Projects focusing on mentoring young playwrights as they develop full-length plays for production as well as Silence is Violence (SiV), YPTs core annual production. SiV is YPTs most immediate & direct route of addressing social justice issues affecting Washington, DC area youth through performance & community dialogue. SiV serves as a means for young people to actively communicate their concerns through targeted dramatic writing workshops & community partnerships. With these young peoples permission, YPT shapes their words into a theatrical production, furthering YPTs vision that young peoples voices are both significant & powerful.
IN-SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM: YPTs In-School Playwriting Program (ISP) brings academically rigorous arts education workshops into classrooms at no cost to students or their families. ISP weaves the art of playwriting into school-day instruction, enhancing literacy, creative expression and communication. Over the course of 12 in-class workshops led by a professional YPT teaching artist, students explore the mechanics of language, drama and self-expression. The program culminates with each student writing their very own play, and YPT brings career actors into the classroom to perform these original pieces. Seeing professional artists bring their words to life is an empowering experience that shows young people what they have to say matters.
AFTER-SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM: YPTs After-school Playwriting Program (ASP) invites students to continue their engagement with YPT beyond the school day to further develop their creative expression and writing skills in a safe, acedemically challenging after-school environment. The ASP provides ensemble-based creative writing and performance opportunities in students schools or communities. The Young Playwrights Guild is a specialized after-school program that meets at YPT headquarters weekly throughout the school year, engaging a core group of YPT alumni interested in writing their own full-length play. YPT also conducts a summer program, All the Worlds a Stage (ATWAS) at eight DC Public School summer sites serving youth identified as the highest-risk for learning loss.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Brigitte Winter | Executive Director | 40 | $93,000 |
| Roxanne Garza | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Feeko | Treasurer | 3 | $0 |
| Johnny Walker | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lisa Rawls | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lemar White | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cecilia Majors | Director | 1 | $0 |
| K Michelle Walters | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Walt Derengowski | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Anne Eigeman | Secretary | 3 | $0 |
| Ben-James Brown | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Deven Comen | Vice Chair | 3 | $0 |
| Glenn Greene | Chair | 3 | $0 |
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