Playwrights
Welcome to our directory of playwrights from around the world who are writing for young audiences. Feel free to browse country or name. Know someone that should be on the list? (Including yourself?) Send us the info!
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Thandekile L Ndlovu
Thandekile is a Theatre Director and Producer in Zimbabwe. She is passionate about anything to do with theater
Georgette Kelly
Georgette Kelly is a playwright with one foot in Chicago and the other in New York. Her work has been produced across the United States, and she has participated in numerous artistic residencies, including the 2020 New Visions/New Voices Festival at The Kennedy Center.
Tuna Serzedello
Tuna Serzedello is an Brazilian actor, director, playwright and teacher. Founder of Arthur-Arnaldo Theatre Company in 1996 (www.arthurarnaldo.com.br) and one of the coordinators of Projeto Conexões (Connections Youth Theatre Project) in Brazil (www.conexoes.org.br) since its creation in 2006.
J-mee Katanyag
Since her play, "Betang", was staged in Virgin Labfest 10 in the Phillippines, J-mee pursued writing plays for schools, advocacy groups, and Philippines Educational Theater Association
Erfan Khatibzadeh
Erfan Khatibzadeh is a Researcher, Educator, Dramaturg who lives in Damghan, Iran He has a BA Theater at the University of Tehran, Campus of Fine Arts, faculty of Performing Arts and Music. and is a Member of Iran ASSITEJ.
He is interested in working on interdisciplinary fields
Vicky Ireland
Vicky Ireland, writer for children’s theatre, T.V. and radio.
Co Artistic Director of A Thousand Cranes Theatr
Peter Wynne-Wilson
Peter is a highly experienced writer and director, based in Birmingham and working in Theatre-in-Education and Theatre for Young Audiences for over 35 years. His 40 plus plays include Roy and Heads or Tails fro Big Brum, The Shooky and Princess and Ginger for Birmingham Rep, and The Bridge [with Ko Sun Duck] and Looking for Yoghurt [with Toyoko Nishida and Kim Mijeong] for Hanyong Theatre. He now runs the degree course in Applied Theatre at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Lereko Mfono
Lereko Mfono is a multifaceted writer, performer and facilitator who honed his craft at the National School of the Arts and later studied Applied drama at Wits University-Drama for Life in Johannesburg
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce’s plays Mariachi Girl, Sangre de un Ángel, Señora Tortuga, and the Legend of the Poinsettia are published by Dramatic Publishing. Her most recent play which she co-authored with Maria Rocha, Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet, premiered at Dallas Children’s Theater in 2018. She was recently named Director of UTeach Fine Arts, the arts teacher preparation program in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.