Out of more than 250 plays submitted to the 2024 Syracuse Stage Young Playwrights Festival this year, 25 plays written by Jamesville-DeWitt High School students were selected as semifinalists and quarterfinalists.
Quarterfinalist recognition is given to the top 25% of plays submitted to the competition. The top 16 playwrights in the competition receive semifinalist recognition and are invited to a workshop at Syracuse Stage to receive feedback from professional playwrights and theater professors. The top 8 of these revised plays will be performed at the Syracuse Stage Young Playwrights Festival on Tuesday, April 30.
Congratulations!
J-D Semifinalists:
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- Logan Oppedisano (Ground Fries)
- Nicole Chen (Crane Wishes)
- Ray Feldstein (Me, Myself, and My Reflection)(Life and Death Walk into a Therapy Session)
- Talia Salomon (The Seder)
- Josephine Dittman (Flares)
- Leah Nemi (B&E: Breaking and Enligtening)
- Matthew Patalita (Heistees)
- Adam Rigdon (Get Smoke)
- Eden Shirilan-Howlett (This Play is Not AI Generated)
J-D Quarterfinalists:
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- Lillian Engel (A Dull Match)
- Gabriella McNally (Orange Crush)
- Matthew Radford (Dog House)
- Emma Wang (And They Were Roommates)
- Aleena Ali (Case Closed)
- Lauren Caporaso (INeverKnew0421)
- Aveleen Collins (“Lucid Memories” (Him))
- Ray Feldstein (Down Memory Lane)
- Jisan Lamichhane (Unwanted Attire)
- Sarah Olivo (A Short Dream)
- Lindsay Parker (Thanksgiving Day)
- Iden Bright (Waiting On a Bus)
- Chukwuemeka Okereke (Allyship)
- Natalie Schultz (Dinner’s Ready)
- Thomas Vander Molen (Give Me Weakness)