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HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROJECT

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS

SCRIPT | PAGE 1 SAMPLE

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TITLE PAGE SAMPLE

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SCRIPT | BODY SAMPLE

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** 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.

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