Bring a YPF Residency to your school!
YPF features in-school residencies where BCS Teaching Artists partner with classroom teachers to develop original plays by young people across Maryland. Over 8 sessions, our professional Teaching Artists will work with K-12 classroom educators to facilitate lessons from our YPF Curriculum to guide students through the playwriting process with the goal of creating short, completely original plays that can be submitted to our annual Young Playwrights Festival competition. Students are given many tools to communicate their ideas, develop characters, write dialogue, and shape their stories for a unique opportunity we are so proud to continue to offer. Please refer to our YPF FAQ sheet for more information on our in-school residencies.
Applications to bring a YPF residency to your school for the 2025-26 season are currently closed, but submissions are open to all students in the state of Maryland regardless of participation in our residency program.
Learn more about the Young Playwrights Festival residency program and read our FAQs here!