Playwright Ricky Young-Howze, author of I'm Totally Getting Sent to Bible Camp This Summer (part of Great Expectations: Eight Plays About Teens Under Pressure), discusses the importance of making the theater a welcoming place for audience members with disabilities and offers some commonsense suggestions on how to go about it.

Playwright, novelist and poet Hayley Lawson-Smith, author of Warriors, discusses the various ways playwrights and other writers find the motivation to keep writing despite challenges and distractions.

Nina Mansfield, author of Erasing the Brain, writes both plays and fiction. Here she discusses her process, with particular emphasis on the differences between writing fiction and writing for the stage.

As we near the end of 2014, several YouthPLAYS authors explore the question, "How do you find the endings of your plays?"

Playwrights Nancy Brewka-Clark, Jonathan Dorf, and Greg Romero respond, sharing the many different paths they have followed...

As we near the end of 2014, several YouthPLAYS authors explore the question, "How do you find the endings of your plays?"

Playwrights Evan Baughfman, Flip Kobler,  Rebecca Moretti, and Donna Spector respond, sharing the many different paths they have followed...

In this YouthPLAYS blog series, we interview playwrights by asking them 9 Questions.

In responding, each playwright is also asked to remove one question and replace it with a new one for the next playwright.

We thank YouthPLAYS author Nicole B. Adkins for participating, and you can enjoy her response by clicking "read."

This is the second installment of a blog entry in which several YouthPLAYS authors question convention in response to the prompt: "What piece of conventional wisdom about playwriting have you found to be the least helpful?"

Read on for replies from Evan Guilford-Blake, Donna Spector, Carol S. Lashof and Nancy Brewka-Clark.

Several YouthPLAYS authors question convention in response to the prompt: "What piece of conventional wisdom about playwriting have you found to be the least helpful?"

Read on for replies from Fengar Gael, Nathaniel Kressen, Patricia Lamkin, and Meron Langsner.

In this YouthPLAYS blog series, we interview playwrights by asking them 9 Questions.

In responding, each playwright is also asked to remove one question and replace it with a new one for the next playwright.

We thank YouthPLAYS author Randy Wyatt for participating, and you can enjoy his response by clicking "read."

With the seasons changing, a couple YouthPLAYS authors reply to the question, "What has been the most important 'spring' in your life?"

Read how playwrights Evan Guilford-Blake and Tommy Jamerson respond...