Each year, Circle Theatre proudly hosts the High School Playwriting Project, a unique opportunity for young voices to shine on stage! We invite DFW Metroplex high school teachers to submit their students' 10-minute scripts, where emerging playwrights can have their work evaluated by an experienced panel of professional theater-makers and take their first steps into our vibrant creative community.
Scroll Down for the full process of the project and recognitions for playwrights!
LINKS TO SUBMIT MATERIALS | SCROLL DOWN
THE HSPP PROCESS
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2025 RESOURCES
Resources for incorporating the High School Playwriting Project into your curriculum
The best way to help students become playwrights is to make the HSPP a part of your curriculum. We have broken down the pipeline to inspire and encourage students during the process! We have included a sample curriculum you can seamlessly flow in your semester planning as well as broken out pieces you can mix and match to suit your individual classroom!
Our HSPP curriculum breaks out exercises week by week that will build on top of one another to lead your students on the right path for writing a successful play!
We are also offering a limited number of in classroom
visits to help kick off the program.
Inquire more about this by emailing hspp@circletheatre.com
2025 GUIDELINES & MATERIALS
SAMPLE PAGES
FILE #1
TEACHER'S LETTER OF SUPPORT
This document let's us know the names of all the students who will be submitting a play. It helps us make sure we 've received all the scripts.
Please write the names of co-authors on the SAME line
FILE #2
TITLE PAGES | IDENTIFYING
This document ensures that we can connect the writers back to their plays. Please see the examples for how to craft your title pages
Please SAVE your title page PDFs as
"NAME OF PLAY _ TEACHERS NAME _ "TITLE PAGE" "
"OurTown_MsKateJones_TitlePage"
FILE #3
SCRIPTS | ANONYMOUS
This is your play! The firt page will be your Title, characters, setting, and content warnings. There is NO identifying information on this document except for the name of script.
Pages 2 on is the body of your script.
Please save your PDF as JUST the title of your script.
Email to hspp@circletheatre.com
INSTRUCTIONS
SCRIPT | PAGE 1 SAMPLE
TITLE PAGE SAMPLE
SCRIPT | BODY SAMPLE
** Please note, this does not need to be submitted separately from the script, but is the first page of the script.
MATERIAL SUBMISSION
If you have any questions about our new submission process,
Please email hspp@circletheatre.com
We are updating our submission process for 2025! We will be sending over all instructions as soon as we can!
Please allow 48 hours for confirmation email.
PAST HSPP EVENTS
HSPP SPONSORS
Thank you to our generous sponsors who make our scholarship, program, and theater ticket donations possible.
