Emerging Playwrights is a play-writing competition sponsored by Riverwalk Theatre. The competition is open to high school students in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties. Students in grades 9-12 are invited to write short one-act plays and submit them to the competition. Five plays will be selected for production and each author will receive a $1000 prize.
Congratulations to the
2024 Emerging Playwrights
Evan Bywater, 12th grade, Lansing Eastern HS with the script Buddy’s Pizza
Olivia Quiroga, 12th grade, Holt HS with the script Butterfly Grief (Olivia Quiroga was also named an Emerging Playwright in 2023.)
Ella Reid, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Strangers Like Us
Paulina Rivet, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Roses are Red
Abrigail Triantaflos, 11th grade, Ovid-Elsie HS with the script Women at Housework
June 26 - Award Certificates and $1000 checks presented to the 5 authors of the winning scripts at the Riverwalk Theatre Annual Barney Awards ceremony.
August 3The Emerging Playwrights Festival: Two scripts will be presented as full productions and three scripts will be presented as staged readings at Riverwalk Theatre.
Questions? Contact us at EmergingPlaywrights.RWT@gmail.com
Olivia Quiroga, 12th grade, Holt HS with the script Butterfly Grief (Olivia Quiroga was also named an Emerging Playwright in 2023.)
Ella Reid, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Strangers Like Us
Paulina Rivet, 12th grade, Dewitt HS with the script Roses are Red
Abrigail Triantaflos, 11th grade, Ovid-Elsie HS with the script Women at Housework
June 26 - Award Certificates and $1000 checks presented to the 5 authors of the winning scripts at the Riverwalk Theatre Annual Barney Awards ceremony.
August 3The Emerging Playwrights Festival: Two scripts will be presented as full productions and three scripts will be presented as staged readings at Riverwalk Theatre.
Questions? Contact us at EmergingPlaywrights.RWT@gmail.com
Winners of the 2022-23 Competition
QUESTIONS? Contact us at emergingplaywrights.rwt@gmail.com
Generously Supported by Gordon Masters.
Emerging Playwrights is not affiliated to the MSU Wharton Center's Young Playwrights Competition.