Nationwide Plays to End Gun Violence project includes work by N.J. high school student
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
West Orange High School senior Olivia Ridley s play Ghost Gun will be one of the short works staged in #Enough - Plays to End Gun Violence, to be presented by four New Jersey groups on Monday, Dec. 14.enoughplays.com
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But that’s just the tip of the exposure it will get.
On the same day, the teen’s drama addressing gun violence also will be staged by three other acting groups throughout the state, as well as by nearly 50 other amateur and professional theater companies across the nation. And internationally, it will be performed by actors in Germany, India and South Africa.
Mile Square Theatre To Participate In #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence On December 14
(HOBOKEN, NJ) Mile Square Theatre will participate in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students. On December 14, 2020 the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook the winning titles will be performed at Mile Square Theatre and nearly 50 other theatres and schools across the country and abroad.
A panel of nationally-recognized dramatists Lauren Gunderson, Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, and Karen Zacarías selected the plays out of 184 submissions from 23 states and three countries in #ENOUGH’s call for teens to write 10-minute plays that confront the issue of gun violence.