Young Playwrights Roundtable

Young Playwrights Roundtable is an invitation-only teen writing club.  Nominated students who have participated in The Coterie’s in-school program, Young Playwrights Workshop. Young writers are interviewed in order to receive an invitation to the Roundtable, which is composed of mostly high school aged students.

The Coterie’s Roundtable is a peer-feedback-driven writing club that meets throughout the school year, approximately every other Sunday afternoon. Once selected for the Roundtable, members may stay on until they graduate from high school (as long as their attendance and participation are maintained).

Each spring, a Young Playwrights Showcase is assembled to create a collection of plays that have been developed during the year performed in a staged reading format.  A selection of plays that are ready to be heard (be they short plays or excerpts of longer plays) and are representative of the type of work generated during the year are chosen to be performed on stage. To perform in the staged readings of these play, The Coterie draws on Roundtable members as actors in the pieces. Professional directors are utilized, coordinated by The Coterie’s Education Department.

2024 Fall Semester Meeting Dates | Sundays 3:30-5:30pm

• September 15
• September 29
• October 13
• October 27
• November 10
• November 24
• December 8

2025 Spring Semester Meeting Dates | Sundays 3:30-5:30pm

• January 19
• February 2
• February 16
• March 2
• March 16
• March 30
• April 13

Young Playwrights Showcase 2025 – Sunday, April 27, at 7:00pm