MTC To Present 'Write' Festival At City Center 6/2

 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual WRITE ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL on Monday, June 2, at City Center, 131 West 55th Street, at 10:30am through 8:30pm.  The WRITE ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL is a showcase of short plays written by at-risk and incarcerated youths from underserved high schools in the metropolitan area and performed by professional actors.

WRITE ON THE EDGE, under the guidance of MTC Education Director David Shookhoff, is a yearlong playwriting program that teaches teens – many from troubled backgrounds – to develop original scripts.  Throughout the year, MTC teaching artists guide students through the process of writing and revising their plays.  The students' work ranges from wildly farcical to deeply tragic; the plays depict youthful characters with disturbing pasts; fractured families trying to heal; victims of abuse; and young heroes who find the courage to overcome great odds. The culmination of the project is the WRITE ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL.

The students in WrOTE are from fourteen high schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Westchester: Brooklyn: New York Harbor School; The Bronx: Community School for Social Justice; Satellite Academy, Bronx; Queens: Flushing High School; Flushing YABC; Island Academy (Eric M Taylor Center, RNDC-Annex, RNDC-Main, RNDC-Sprungs, Rose M Singer Center); Satellite Academy, Queens;  Manhattan: Satellite Academy, Midtown; Urban Academy; Bayard Rustin Educational Complex; Westchester: New Rochelle High School.

WrOTE was implemented in 1994 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC is one of the country's leading cultural institutions.

Tickets are free and can be reserved by calling (212) 399-3000 x 4252.  The three segments are presented at 10:30am-12:00pm, 1:00-2:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm; different pieces in each segment.

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