Here’s Today’s ‘Page-to-Stage’ Festival Schedule for Sunday, September 1, 2013 at The Kennedy Center

Here is the schedule for TODAY, Sunday, September 1, 2 013
at the ‘Page-to-Stage’ Festival’ at The Kennedy Center.
Performances are from 6-7 PM Only!

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MILLENNIUM STAGE SOUTH
6 PM–7 PM.
VSA Playwrights 
The nine winners of the 29th Annual Playwright Discovery Performance competition and their winning scripts will be celebrated, and excerpts of a few scripts will be performed as staged readings.____

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From The Kennedy Center:

Here are the 2013 VSA Playwright Discovery Program High School Winners

Margaret Abigail Flowers, The Broken Ornament

Margaret Abigail Flowers, 17, originally hails from Houston, Texas, and has recently graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She is the winner of numerous regional and national awards for her poetry and playwriting, including The Blank Theatre Young Playwright’s Competition and multiple Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She will be attending Stanford University in the fall of 2013 as an undergraduate student.

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Will Hedgecock, Bad Days

Will Hedgecock, 17, is a senior at Edison High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is an editor of Eyrie, the school’s nationally recognized journal of creative expression, an active participant in his school’s drama program, as well as an Eagle Scout. Will received the regional and state All-Star awards for the OSAI one-act competition for his role as Claudius. In addition, he has produced and directed two of his own one-act plays locally. He plans to major in theatre before pursuing a graduate program in playwriting program.

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Nik Kerry, Sons of Atlantis

Nik Kerry, 19, is a recent graduate of Centerville High School in Centerville, Ohio. Those that know him would describe him as energetic and enthusiastic about life. Born in Utah in 1994, he grew up in Ohio where he spent most of his time writing or playing musical instruments. Since being published in a poetry collection in fifth grade, Mr. Kerry’s work has been seen in the Teenink.com magazine, A Celebration of Young Poets magazine, Dark Gothic Resurrected magazine, and he is the self-published author of Nevermore, a book for Kindle. He currently resides in Utah.

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Mickey Liebrecht, Broken Bodies

Mickey Liebrecht, 16, is a junior at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado. She is currently enrolled in a number of honors and AP courses. Her greatest love is the choir she is a part of, Young Voices of Colorado, where she has been taught to read and make music. More critically, she has also learned to use music as a tool for her own creative originality-a skill she truly values. She hopes to become a profiler with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Elana Loeb, Sertraline Lullabies

Elana Loeb, 18, recently graduated from Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California. She is a big sister, a singer-songwriter, and an avid Shakespearian. In addition to Sertraline Lullabies, she has written two one-act comedies, an one-act musical, and a full length play. This fall Elana will begin her freshman year at Cornell University.

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Cal Sheridan, Cal Sheridan: Not Suffering

Cal Sheridan, 18, recently graduated from Boise High School in Boise, Idaho. For Cal, the stage is his life. Whether writing or acting, he loves being a part of the theatrical experience. He has written two plays: Chestnuts Roasting and Cal Sheridan: Not Suffering. His theater experience also includes working on stage crew as well as numerous acting credits. When not participating in theater, he enjoys writing scripts for cartoons and songs on Garageband. Cal studies under Dwayne Blackaller, a professional playwright at the Boise Contemporary Theatre.

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Dimitra Skouras, Joanna’s Baby

Dimitra Skouras, 18, is a recent graduate of Dallastown Area High School in York, Pennsylvania, where she was involved in the music and drama programs. Her lifelong involvement in community theatre fostered her love for all aspects of the performing arts. She enjoys literature, baking, and comedic television, and it is her dream to one day write for TV. Dimitra hopes to attend college sometime in the (hopefully near) future, as soon as she figures out how to pay for it.

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Nathan Wilgeroth, Love Like Anything

Nathan Wilgeroth, 18, recently graduated from Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park, Texas. He was Vice President of his school’s theatre department, having won multiple school- and district-wide acting awards. In addition, he was a member of the Texas All-State Mixed Choir and President of his school’s choir department. In the fall, Nathan will attend Boston University and plans to major in English Literature.

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Nicole Zimmerer, Falling with Grace

Nicole Zimmerer, 19, just graduated from Westside High School in Houston, Texas. She was a member of the school’s theatre company for four years, as well as a member of National Honors Society. She has had cerebral palsy since birth and has written the words “non-progressive, non-contagious condition” on more college essays than she would like to admit. She is an avid writer and is very passionate about theatre, television, and film. Nicole will be attending the University of Houston in the fall, with plans to major in Playwriting and Dramaturgy.

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The 2013 VSA Playwright Discovery Program winners will participate in a weekend of pre-professional activities at the Kennedy Center during the annual Page-to-Stage festival. The young playwrights will engage with seasoned professional playwrights, directors and actors to refine their work and developed their playwriting skills.

Selected excerpts from three scripts will be performed on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage on Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 6 p.m..

The performance is free and open to the public, and will be streamed live on the Kennedy Center website.

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THE ENTIRE SCHEDULE FOR THE 2013 PAGE-TO-STAGE FESTIVAL.