Write to Dream

by Young Playwrights' Theater (Editor)

Since 1995, YPT has taught thousands of students in the Washington, DC region to express themselves clearly and creatively through the art of playwriting. Write to Dream offers 30 of the best plays written by YPT students from 1995-2012, along with standards-based workshops from YPT's curriculum to inspire creativity and enhance literacy skills in the classroom. Lesson plans are organized so teachers can easily integrate them into their classroom curricula. The plays feature stories and characters for all ages, from a science experiment gone hilariously awry to a Chinese immigrant struggling to learn English and graduate high school to an elderly woman facing the gentrification of her neighborhood.

This book is for everyone. Read these plays aloud in classrooms across the country, discuss them as a family around the dinner table and read them on your own in quiet moments of inspiration and reflection.

Your purchase of this book includes a donation to support YPT. We are incredibly grateful for your contribution. As a nonprofit organization, we depend on community members like you to continue our work. Your support will help us realize the visions of even more young playwrights and reach even more students in the classroom. (Young Playwrights' Theater)

354 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012