YPF 2024 received 43 submissions from students throughout Yale College. The festival took place on Friday, February 23, and Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Morse College Crescent Theater, featuring the following plays:
Mud by Megan Ruoro (YC 2025)
prom night by Hannah Kurczeski (YC 2026)
Tainted Bodies, Delicate Souls by Yuen Ning Chang (YC 2025)
THE SNOW QUEEN by Phoebe “Jess” Haws (YC 2026)
SAPPHIRE, after jezebel by Mik/ayla Johnson (YC 2024)
2 1⁄2 Lesbians by Eunwoo Rose Bae (YC 2024)
2024 Inside Yale Mentors
- Donald Margulies (Mud)
- Amy Boratko (prom night)
- Toni Dorfman (Tainted Bodies)
- Deb Margolin (THE SNOW QUEEN)
- Margaret Spillane (SAPPHIRE)
- Shilarna Stokes (2 ½ Lesbians)
2024 Outside of Yale Mentors
- Colette Robert (Mud)
- Sarah DeLappe (prom night)
- reid tang (Tainted Bodies)
- Edwin Sanchez (THE SNOW QUEEN)
- a.k. payne (SAPPHIRE)
- Sivan Battat (2 ½ Lesbians)
The Teams
The directors and actors participating in the readings were a combination of Yale College and David Geffen School of Drama students. The directors included Jisun Kim (DGSD MFA ‘22, current DFA candidate), Joe Lee (YC ‘25), Abby Asmuth (YC ‘26), Elka Wade (YC ‘24), KaLa Keaton (YC ‘25), and Lavanya Sinha (YC ‘25). They were joined by 30 student actors, some of whom were playwrights reading for each other’s plays.
*This year’s YPF was overseen and supported by Assistant Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Elise Morrison, MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama Hannah Gellman, and TDPS Senior Admin & Registrar Alana Conti.
**The Marina Keegan Fund, the Yale College Office of the Dean, and Yale Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies program sponsor the 2025 Yale Playwrights Festival.
