"Once again let me tell you how rewarding and stimulating I found my work with the Playwrights Project. It's great to see kids involving themselves, taking chances, growing. You can literally watch the minds expand."
-Pulitzer Prize Winner Edward Albee
"Offering our students the opportunity to research, write, and stage their own play has been the most valuable learning experience I've seen in 14 years of teaching."
-Junior High School Teacher
"I learned more about writing in four hours than in the last four years of my life."
-Winning Playwright
"I valued the fact that the process and the teaching artist got every student involved in the project. The program clearly exceeded our expectations. The students worked hard to complete their plays and took pride in this.
-ELL Teacher at Hidden Valley Middle School
"I believe in the power your project has to motivate reluctant learners... Playwrights Project helped my students to discover the power within them to move others through their writing...We need the kind of enthusiasm and good teaching you provide...a structure in which our young people can imagine and create."
-Continuing Education Teacher, Garfield High School, February
"If I could explain Playwrights Project in one word, I'd have to say "inspirational." This program is one I wouldn't pass up for anything."
-Student, Del Dios Middle School, February
"The best educational experience my daughter had in her high school years."
-Parent of a Student Participant in a Playwriting Residency
"I enjoyed the instructor's commitment and joy in giving the course, the comfort and rapport amoung all participants, the diversity and richness of the group. This has been a vastly rewarding experience."
-Senior Lifestages Participant
"I'm glad there were people who felt I had somthing important to say, and that they listened well."
-Former Winning Playwright, California Young Playwrights Contest
"A model program for schools...One of our star projects."
Ray Tatar, California Arts Council
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