The 2025 Playwrights Festival received 56 submissions from students throughout Yale College. The festival took place on February 22 and 23 at the Saybrook Underbrook, featuring the following plays:
Saturday, February 22
Tashlich by Abigail Sylvor Greenberg
The Rite of Spring by Miette Maoulidi
Bleach Stains by Thomas Kannam
Sunday, February 23
Fundamental Filth by Suraj Singareddy
Pancho and the Brain by Cuatro Villareal
Saniya’s Salon by Aanika Eragam
2025 Yale Playwrights Festival Mentors:
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2025 Inside Yale mentors |
2025 Outside of Yale mentors |
|---|---|
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Deb Margolin (Tashlick) |
Caroline McGraw (Tashlich) |
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Alexandra Vazquez (The Rite of Spring) |
Danielle L Stagger (The Rite of Spring) |
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Kee-Yoon Nahm (Bleach Stains) |
Noah Diaz (Bleach Stains) |
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Amy Boratko (Fundamental Filth) |
Michael Walkup (Fundamental Filth) |
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Tlaloc Rivas (Pancho and the Brain |
Christina Anderson (Pancho and the Brain) |
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Dexter Singleton (Saniya’s Salon) |
Naomi Lorrain (Saniya’s Salon) |
This year’s YPF was overseen and supported by Assistant Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Elise Morrison, D.F.A. Candidate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Hannah Gellman, TDPS Senior Admin & Registrar Alana Conti, and student producer Hannah Kurczeski.
**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.
