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Craft
On Writing for Young Audiences, Part One
Jul 12, 2021
Craft
A photo collage of Don Zolidis, Nambi E. Kelley, Suzan Zeder and Idris Goodwin
Don Zolidis, Nambi E. Kelley, Suzan Zeder and Idris Goodwin

Idris Goodwin: I’d love to get into the TYA conversation around your experience as dramatists and theatre artists in general. [We] do a lot of different things and live in a lot of different spaces. What have you picked up? What have you learned as craftspeople for that particular audience? I thought a good place to start would be two questions: where are you right now, and what play is this conversation pulling you away from writing?

Nambi E. Kelley: I am currently in Chicago and the play I’m being pulled away from right now is I’m writing a play about Maya Angelou. My deadline is looming.

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Idris Goodwin
Idris Goodwin

is a playwright and break-beat poet. His plays include And In This Corner Cassius Clay, How We Got On, Hype Man, and This is Modern Art. Goodwin serves on both the advisory boards of Theatre for Young Audiences USA and Children's Theatre Foundation Association. Idris is the director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and the new DG Regional Rep in Colorado.

Nambi E. Kelly
Nambi E. Kelly

, a writer on Showtime’s The Chi, was in residence at the National Black Theatre (NYC), winner of The Prince Prize 2019, DGF Writers Alliance Grant, The Primus Prize (finalist 2015,2019). Kelley is adapting Toni Morrison’s Jazz and developing a play based on the life of Dr. Maya Angelou. Native Son, (Samuel French), has enjoyed productions across the country, most notably, at Yale Rep and premiered in NYC through The Acting Co, summer 2019. An award-winning actress, Kelley’s performed regionally, internationally, and on television. www.nambikelley.com

Suzan Zeder
Suzan Zeder

has been recognized nationally and internationally as one of the nation’s leading playwrights for family audiences. Her plays have been performed in all 50 states, and in many countries abroad. She is a six-time winner of the AATE Distinguished Play Award. She has the book and lyrics for two new musicals, Gretel! and The Battlefields of Clara Barton.

Don Zolidis
Don Zolidis

is a playwright, novelist, and former middle and high school theatre teacher with an MFA in playwriting from the Actor’s Studio Drama School. His more than 100 published plays have been produced more than 16,000 times and have appeared in 68 countries.

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