Students, high school through college, are invited to submit completed one act plays for consideration in Horizon Theatre Company’s New South Young Playwrights Festival Contest. 20+ playwrights are selected to participate in the New South Young Playwrights Festival at Horizon Theatre in the trendy Little Five Points area of Atlanta. This week-long festival is free for participants and includes playwriting workshops, seminars, and rehearsals with professional theatre actors, directors, and playwrights.
Every year, our New South Young Playwrights Festival (NSYPF) culminates in a show-stopping short play festival! These winning plays were written by college-age playwrights all across the country and performed by professional actors.
The 27th Annual NSYP Short Play Festival is a showcase of the writers’ short plays that were created over their intensive week in 2024. There are 25 writers and plays.
THANK YOU TO OUR NSYPF 2025 DONORS & HEROES:
MAJOR SPONSORS
Anonymous
George M. Brown Trust Fund of Atlanta
Francine Dykes & Richard Delay
Kathleen Marran and Richard Peterson
Linda & Richard Hubert
Playwrights Circle
Anonymous
Henry A. Fields Foundation, Anne & Richard Fields
Suzanne Foy
Virginia Kriho, In Memory of Ralph & Laura Kriho
Paula R. Reynolds
Colleen M. O’Rourke
Stan & Georgia Segal
Sally Rhoden
David Vandegift
Brad Wilkison
Angels
The Family of Phyllis and Joe Arnold
Cathy & Bo Bradshaw
The Dresdner Family
Robin Chalmers & Michael Purser
Teresea Joyce
Anonymous
Donald & Helen O’Shea
Alan Schreihofer, In Memory of Cyndy Schreihofer
Beth & Edward Sugarman
ARTISANS
Mahan and Laura Lancaster Archer
Kevin & Wendy Best
Beverly Blouin
Mark Cottrell
Abigail Russell
Stephen & Phyllis Weiss
PLAYERS
Brian & Robbie Barber
Bruce Douglas
Evan Dunn
Rachel Fiore
Linda Hare
Megan Hayes
Joshua Jobe
Maggie Mermin
Jennifer & Howard Page
Susan Wilson
FAMILY
Thomas Wellnitz
Carol Ann Arvan
The Cohen Family
Charlene Clinton
George Contini
Charles Dillon
Robert Dixon
The Geiger Foundation
Susan C. Gworek
Patricia Gregg
Sally Hale
Cara Haycak
Stacy & Edward Hyken
Mary & Bob James
Roland Johnson
Kim Jones
Carolyn Kennedy
Zahava Kurland
Melanie Levs
Sue Lind
Lesley Lochridge
Betty & Pamela McIntosh
Shara and Garrett Sanders
Nancy & D. Schultz
Robert and Jeanne Shulman
Reed Travis
Blake Wilson
FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Sheahan
Leonard Pallats
Rob Cleveland and Mary Lynn Owen
Kate and Charley Beans
Kelly Criss
Debbie & Randy Chartash
Karen Fox
Melina Yeh
Rosemary Barnes
Amy and Mike Perez
Elizabeth Scott
Amelia & Rollin Fischer
Angel Lin
Amy Arnold
Mary Arthur
Shelley Chinnan
Vicki Davis
Rita Wuebbeler
Susan Goldstein
Jean Sommerville and Jim Lynch
Deb Elkin
Eric McNaughton
Poppy Miller
Galen Crawley and Jacob York
Mary Ann Carberry
Natalie Wolf
David Crowe