HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROJECT
HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROJECT
FINALIST READING SERIES - MAY 10, 2025
Circle Theatre is proud to invite you to the 2025 High School Playwriting Project
Finalist Reading Series on Sunday, May 4, 2025!
Celebrate the creativity and passion of our region’s most talented young playwrights with staged readings of the top finalist scripts, an awards ceremony, and a reception following the performances. This event is free and open to the public — all are welcome to attend and support these emerging voices in North Texas theatre.
Professional actors will bring the students’ stories to life in a day filled with inspiration, community, and celebration.
Doors open at 2:30 PM | Readings begin at 3:30 PM
Reserve your free seat today and join us in lifting up the next generation of storytellers!
Scroll Down for the full process of the project and recognitions for playwrights!
HSPP 2025 | TOP TWENTY SCRIPTS | Listed in alphabetical order
Victoria Betts – Wretched Hounds And Worse Husbands – Timber Creek
Lilian Clark – Evil Among Us – Arlington
Clarissa Casey – One Call Away – Timber Creek
Matthew Grand – Open Seat – FWAFA
Burnice Huddleston Jr. – Little Soldier – Arlington
Ryan Ingram – To Have, To Hold – Lawrence D. Bell
Olivia Johnson – Eccentricity of Conduct – FWAFA
Melody Johnston – Small Town Princess – Mansfield Legacy
Liam Markland – The Eye On Us – FWAFA
Anne Marini – The Average University Experience – Carroll Senior
Meagan McMillin – Fisher's Theory – FWAFA
Emerson Munoz – The Ticket – Timber Creek
Zoe Narvarte – A Worm in the World – Mansfield Legacy
Charlotte Prack – Wilted Flowers – Arlington
Leila Rivera – Washed Up – Timber Creek
River Russell – The Post – Arlington
Autumn Sewell – The Woods – Trinity Basin Prep - Titan Academy
Jonathan Sink – One Call Away – Timber Creek
Olivia Schneider – 1958 – Timber Creek
Dionne Lord – You’re Pretty Fly For a Bug Guy – Mansfield Legacy
Polina Lisovenko – The Average University Experience – Carroll Senior
Isabel Vazquez – Burnout – Founders Classical Academy of Flower Mound – Shaina Thomas
ABOUT HSPP
Each year, Circle Theatre proudly hosts the High School Playwriting Project, a unique opportunity for young voices to shine on stage! We invite DFW Metroplex high school teachers to submit their students' 10-minute scripts, where emerging playwrights can have their work evaluated by an experienced panel of professional theater-makers and take their first steps into our vibrant creative community.
THE HSPP PROCESS
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2025 RESOURCES
Resources for incorporating the
High School Playwriting Project into your curriculum
The best way to help students become playwrights is to make the HSPP a part of your curriculum. We have broken down the pipeline to inspire and encourage students during the process! We have included a sample curriculum you can seamlessly flow in your semester planning as well as broken out pieces you can mix and match to suit your individual classroom!
Our HSPP curriculum breaks out exercises week by week that will build on top of one another to lead your students on the right path for writing a successful play!
We are also offering a limited number of in classroom visits to help kick off the program. Inquire more about this by emailing hspp@circletheatre.com
2025 GUIDELINES & MATERIALS
SAMPLE PAGES & SUBMISSION
FILE #1
TEACHER'S LETTER OF SUPPORT
This document let's us know the names of all the students who will be submitting a play. It helps us make sure we 've received all the scripts.
Please write the names of co-authors on the SAME line
FILE #2
TITLE PAGES | IDENTIFYING
This document ensures that we can connect the writers back to their plays. Please see the examples for how to craft your title pages
Please SAVE your title page PDFs as
"NAME OF PLAY _ TEACHERS NAME _ "TITLE PAGE" "
"OurTown_MsKateJones_TitlePage"
FILE #3
SCRIPTS | ANONYMOUS
This is your play! The firt page will be your Title, characters, setting, and content warnings. There is NO identifying information on this document except for the name of script.
Pages 2 on is the body of your script.
Please save your PDF as JUST the title of your script.
Email to hspp@circletheatre.com
INSTRUCTIONS
SCRIPT | PAGE 1 SAMPLE
TITLE PAGE SAMPLE
SCRIPT | BODY SAMPLE
** Please note, this does not need to be submitted separately from the script, but is the first page of the script.
MATERIAL SUBMISSION
If you have any questions about our new submission process,
Please email hspp@circletheatre.com
Please allow 48 hours for confirmation email.
PAST HSPP EVENTS
HSPP SPONSORS
Thank you to our generous sponsors who make our scholarship, program, and theater ticket donations possible.
