The Young Playwrights Program on the Radio

Jack Straw/AIR resident producer Yuko Kodama's piece on the Young Playwrights Program will air on KBCS at 7:40 a.m. on Monday, February 8th during the program The Takeaway.  It will also be aired as part of the show Listen Up! Northwest this week.  For air dates and times in your area, go to listenupnw.org and see the sidebar on the right.

The Young Playwrights program and festival is an educational writing program directed by the non-profit organization Southeast Effective Development (SEED) in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood.  A professional playwright goes into public middle and high schools in the inner city to teach this form of writing.  At the end of the program, a number of student plays are picked for a community performance.

Yuko Kodama journeyed through interviews with professional playwrights, educators, and performance directors - not to mention through the halls of Franklin High School - to find out more about this program.  What she discovered were the stories about the youth behind the plays and concern by both youth and educators about the diminishing arts programs in the public schools. 

Yuko's feature was supported by the Association of Independents in Radio and Jack Straw Productions' artist residency programs.

Pictured: Some of the young playwrights Yuko worked with in Jack Straw's studios.

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