CTM Young Playwrights Festival
Madison Youth Arts 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703

Marc Glazer
A reading during the 2023 Young Playwrights Festival from Children's Theater of Madison.
A reading during the 2023 Young Playwrights Festival from Children's Theater of Madison.
media release: CTM is a host site for Playwrights for Change, which is a national playwriting competition run by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE). The mission of Playwrights for Change is to produce meaningful conversations that will ripple across our nation to provoke change. The goal is to spark conversation and discussion throughout classrooms, schools, and communities. CTM will select one script to represent CTM at the national competition.
In addition to the script selected for the national competition, CTM will select one script per school group to be given a staged reading at the Young Playwrights Festival in late April/early May. This season’s festival will be May 6, 2025
All ten-minute plays will be directed and acted by professional theater artists and youth actors in roles appropriate to their ages. There will be a daytime festival for students from all participating schools (including a workshop series) as well as an evening festival that is open to the public. At the end of each performance, there will be a talkback with the playwrights.