PUP Fest

This year's New Works Festival also features the seventh year of Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest, a unique project, co-produced with local youth organization Junior Players. Written and performed by some of the Metroplex's finest high school talent, this year's PUP Fest will feature an afternoon of six world premiere staged readings developed through playwriting workshops with local celebrated playwrights and Kitchen Dog Artistic Company Members Vicki Caroline Cheatwood, David Goodwin and Christina Vela alongside longtime KDT collaborator and playwright Erin Burdette.

This year's PUP Fest readings are:

• SASSY INTERVENTION by Dencia Baltimore, Senior, W.T. White.
• THE ACTOR AND THE MUSICIAN by Avery Centala, Junior, Hillcrest.
• CHANGE OF HEART by Mayte Delatorre, Sophmore, Adamson.
• RONAN by Shaun E. Kitchens, Senior, W.T. White.
• IRREGARDLESS by Jenny McCartney, Senior, The Hockaday School.
• COLUMBUS DAY by Molly Kay Wolchansky, Junior, Booker T. Washington.

Staged readings are free. Part of 2008 New Works Festival, click to see a complete festival schedule. Call the Kitchen Dog Theater box office at 214-953-1055 for more info.

Information from theater company's site