YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS UKRAINE
Laura Cahill Founder/Artistic Director
After the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a group of Ukrainian students ages 15-19 met over Zoom with New York-based writer Laura Cahill to write plays in response to war.
Almost three years later, the young playwrights are all college students. They study acting, writing and directing. They continue to meet every week on Zoom to write.
“Life is a good thing when old friends come together to make art with young playwrights. However, this experience with Young Playwrights Ukraine was a truly humbling, deeply felt journey as we read the work of these young people who are going through so much pain and tragedy and still are reaching for art with all the love and hope of any artists ever anywhere. The cruelty these young people have born witness and their desire to write about it..to talk it…breathe their truth and make a greater good through their art is one of the most profound experiences that I have ever been blessed enough to engage in. Learning the meaning of gratitude…I was taught so much…”