SINCE 1997
NC YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS
Festival March 22,2025
Since 2003, NC Young Playwrights has been a program for students and teachers dedicated to increasing playwriting in the K-12 classroom in North Carolina. NC Young Playwrights is the perfect opportunity for your students to receive the collaborative, intensive, professional exposure to the world of playwriting that will create lasting memories and highly beneficial experience.
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2025
NC Young Playwrights
OUTSTANDING and HONORABLE MENTION PLAYS for
Elementary School:
Outstanding Play
Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover by Vivian Meyer
from The Franciscan School
Honorable Mention
The Perfectly Imperfect Picnic by Aurelia Keppler
from The Franciscan School
Middle School:
Outstanding Play
Midnight by Sophie McCoin
from Penn-Griffin School for the Arts
Honorable Mention
The Sweetest Pie by Cooper Hayles
from Randolph IB Middle School
High School:
Outstanding Play
At What Cost? by Ryan Glover
from Hoke County High School
Honorable Mention
The Swallow by Emilie Heffel
from Parkwood High School
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All Honorable Mention and Outstanding Play recipients, please email Heather your license forms when you can at submissions@nctae.com
This will, also, give us the emails to send the amazon gift cards to for the Outstanding Plays
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We will start working on the book as soon as we can and email everyone once it is available!
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NCTAE Member Teachers, if you're interested in taking part in the Playwriting Committee, please let Heather know. Members of NCTAE are encouraged to lend their talents to one of our committees.
NCYPF Play SUBMISSION
The first step in becoming involved in NC Young Playwrights Festival is to submit your students work to NC Young Playwrights. Many teacher have playwriting units that end in a written play. By submitting the students play you have provided a perfect opportunity to expand the student's understanding of playwriting and celebrating their hard work. Submissions don't just come from playwriting units. NC Theatre Teachers have found that a passionate playwright is always ready to be encouraged to participate in this event. Each NCTAE member can submit up to five entries from their school. Submitted plays will be read by qualified theatre professionals who will adjudicate based on a common score sheet. The plays that receive the highest communal score will be asked to participate in the NC Young Playwrights Showcase and they will receive an award:
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Qualifications for Submitted Plays:
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The teacher must be a current member of NCTAE
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NCTAE member may only submit 2 entries from a school
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Entries must be 20 pages or less
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Entries must have 5 characters or less
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Plays can be written by an individual or a class
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Teachers who submit must read 4 entries from another grade level to help with scoring
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Submissions are DUE by Friday, December 20, 2024
How to Submit Correctly:​​
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Submit plays to the NCYPF Google Form
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Make sure the selected plays are in the correct format (see resources below)
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Save selections as the title of the play and either ES, MS or HS. (ex. Hamlet HS)
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Use HS, MS, and ES rubrics before submitting to make sure that you have all qualifications covered
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Only submit in word document or google doc form. PDFs will not be accepted.
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Please, also, complete and attach the following to your entries:
Complete the Publishing Permission Form
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Resources:
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NCYPF Playwriting Format Template - This template shows the correct formatting for NCYPF play submissions
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NCYPF Teacher Tips - These tips are sure to help you students to succeed in playwriting
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Middle School & High School Rubric - See the rubric that is used to grade the Middle School and High School submissions
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Elementary School Rubric - See the rubric that is used to grade Elementary School submissions
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Winning Playwriting Example - See a sample of a winning play from Middle School by Savannah Von Kaenel
Submissions for the 2024-2025 school year are due by December 20, 2024. Submissions are accepted by our Submissions Chair, Heather Daurity.
Teachers, please submit by completing a NCYPF GOOGLE FORM
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For questions about submissions email submissions@nctae.com
NCYPF Published Playwrights
ORDER SCRIPTS
Now presenting our NEW published collection
of plays on AMAZON!
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Please give the playwright credit for their work. The plays should serve not only as text but as inspiration for your students to create their own works.
ROYALTY INFORMATION FOR ALL SCRIPTS.
The playwrights grant you permission to use all scripts within the classroom for educational purposes. If you wish to produce a play for a performance, you must contact the playwright for royalty information. The amount of the royalty fee is completely up to the individual playwright. However, we suggest a fair compensation to be $25 per performance. Contact with the playwright may be made through Heather Daurity at submissions@nctae.com
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Teachers may make as many copies as are needed.
All monies received by NCTAE for the plays goes toward the expenses of making the plays available to you and to fund awards for future student playwrights.
