Announcing the Winners of the Third Annual Young Playwrights      1-Minute Play Contest 

Plays to be Read Onstage April 30

West Palm Beach, Fla. (Tuesday, April 15, 2025) Palm Beach Dramaworks is delighted to announce that 20 students from seven middle schools are the winners of the third annual Young Playwrights 1-Minute Play Contest. Inspired by PBD’s hugely popular Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Contest for high school students, the 1-Minute Play Contest is open to all Palm Beach County students in grades six through eight and challenges them to tell a complete story in just 60 seconds. The plays will receive a staged reading by professional actors in front of an audience at the Don & Anne Brown Theatre on Wednesday, April 30 at 7pm. Tickets are free, but reservations are required.

“Once again, we have an inspired group of winning plays,” said Gary Cadwallader, PBD’s director of education and community engagement. “We always say that everybody has a story to tell, and it’s particularly important in these fraught times that we encourage free expression and provide our young playwrights with a platform to tell their stories in a safe, nurturing environment. I am also so pleased that of the seven schools represented this year, four of them are first-time participants in the contest – an indication of how quickly the contest is growing.”

Winners of the 2025 Young Playwrights 1-Minute Contest

The winners were selected by a group of theatre professionals. The 20 student playwrights will be awarded a $100 prize and receive a keepsake anthology of the winning plays.

To reserve your free ticket to the performance on April 30, visit palmbeachdramaworks.org or call the box office at 561.514.4042, x2.

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-winning company produces five shows and offers a wide variety of programs for students at the theatre and in schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre Communications Group, Florida Professional Theatres Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, and NNPN. In 2024, PBD was honored as Non-Profit of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches. 

The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street. For ticket information contact the box office at (561) 514-4042, or visit palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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