Young Playwrights Festival Archives • First Online with Fran

February 27, 2026

Donna Walker Kuhne: The Power of Building Audiences

As I've traveled around the world to teach, speak, and lecture about audience development, in particular, Africa, is that what I've learned is that at the end of the day,…

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October 19, 2025

Lina AbiRafeh: Women’s Rights in Dark Times

Holding women back doesn't just harm women, it holds everyone back - our economies, our nations, our future. If inequality is limiting us all, why aren't we doing anything to fix…

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May 19, 2025

Kiana Webb: Choose the Energy

Anything that brings us back into the center of ourselves, into the space that literally is your heart, the center of you and recalls the truth of who you are,…

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November 15, 2023

Carla Debbie Alleyne: Stand Together for Fairness

Artivism is a combination of Art and Activism. I wrote about Bayard Rustin who served as the right hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for many years. He was…

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