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The Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival - Winning Plays

Each year PSYPF presents a public staged reading of our winning playwrights' plays. Join us in celebrating and supporting our talented 2023 winners. Admission is free; simply register for tickets. Support our organization by sharing, attending or donating. Thank You!

Selected 2023 Winning Plays:

ART, written by Arlo Topete
Valley View High School in Moreno Valley, CA.
ART is a story about one's journey of finally being free. Through flashbacks, Art shares his life experiences and the people who shaped him, negatively or positively, on finally coming out as trans.

MANAGE, written by George Sandoval
Valley View High School in Moreno Valley, CA.
A doctor tries to help a patient manage his Dissociative Identity Disorder, multiple distinct personalities, looking to find the epicenter of why it was developed. But is the doctor correct?

LOVE'S LABOUR'S MOTHS!, written by Xuan-Anh Ly Biggs
Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, CA.
In this comedy, an actor's love for theater shines through as he auditions and jumps through hurdles to secure the role of Moth in a production of William Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Will it help if the actor is an actual Moth?

BREAKING NEWS! Our directors have been announced.

Chuck Yates - Founder and former Artistic Director of Coyote StageWorks/Palm Springs
Darin Anthony - Artistic Director of Moving Arts/Los Angeles
Jerome Elliot - Artistic Director of Desert Ensemble Theatre

MORE BREAKING NEWS!

Jenapher Zheng (Man of God/Geffen Playhouse) joins the cast of LOVE'S LABOUR'S MOTHS!

Marval A. Rex (Book of Queer) joins the cast of ART.

Noah Harpster (Transparent) joins the cast of LOVE'S LABOUR'S MOTHS!

Stephen Full (Dog with a Blog, The Santa Clarita Diet) joins the cast of MANAGE.

Mark Espinoza (Beverly Hills, 90210) joins the cast of MANAGE.

Wendle Josepher (Twister) joins the cast of LOVE'S LABOUR'S MOTHS!

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