“Writing Plays for Production” Collaborates with Playwright Richard Snee
Hosted each spring by Boston University's Boston Playwright's Theatre, the Massachusetts Young Playwrights' Project Festival known as New Noises, gives high school students the chance to write and present 10-minute plays to be directed and performed by professional actors and directors. As part of the program, participating schools like CSW are provided with the opportunity to collaborate with a playwriting mentor. CSW's mentor is actor and playwright Richard Snee.
Snee has worked at The American Repertory Theatre, The Hungtinton Theatre, The Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Lyric Stage, The Speakeasy Stage, The Nora Theatre, and more. He has also appeared in films such as Gone, Baby, Gone; The Company Men; My Best Friend’s Girl; Mr. North; and Never Met Picasso.
Over the past few weeks, students in Barbara Whitney’s “Writing Plays for Production” course have shared their work with Snee and engaged in critical discussion about each piece, developing stronger drafts in the process. The class will later decide on two plays to feature in the New Voices festival. Featured plays will be workshopped, rehearsed, and revised with working actors and directors before the final performance. After, students will engage in a question and answer session with all of the professionals involved in bringing their play to life.
Stay tuned for additional updates on this exciting process.
The Cambridge School of Weston is a progressive high school for day and boarding students in grades 9–12 and PG. CSW's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning, meaningful relationships, and a dynamic program that inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to their school, their community and the world.