Fall Teen Theatre Ensemble

Jon & Bella are back for their first fall event!

Oct 5, 2024

10:00 am

‍CREATE YOUR OWN PLAY

Building off of 12 summers of Teen Theatre Ensemble, playwrights Jon Elston and Bella Poynton bring their talents to six Saturdays this fall for the first non-summer play-creating experience!
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PERFECT FOR STUDENTS WHO…

Enjoy improv and theatre games
Like to write or create their own stories
Aspire to be serious theatre artists (actors, directors, or playwrights)
Love to laugh and meet new friends!

DETAILS

Total cost $400 per student
October 5 - November 9, 2024
Saturdays 9am-12noon
For all students age 11-17

Final performance
Saturday November 9 @ 1pm in the Alleyway Cabaret

This program has supported the creativity of middle and high school theatre artists, empowering young theatre makers to create and produce 100% original new world-premiere comedies, dramas, and musicals. Learn and grow as artists while you devise, write, and develop a full-length evening of original work for the Alleyway mainstage!‍

Reserve your spot now with a $150 deposit
Balance of $250 due on first day of camp. This helps us keep your ticketing fees as low as possible.

Bella Poynton

BELLA POYNTON is a playwright, director, and theatre scholar from Buffalo, NY. She was a Regional Playwriting Resident at Road Less Traveled Productions in 2016, and is the director of Queen City Playwrights, Buffalo’s New Play Development Workshop for area writers. Bella's plays have been produced and developed at New World Stages, The Bechdel Group, MadLab Theatre, Quantum Dragon Theatre, Alleyway Theatre, Looking Glass Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre Company, and Post-Industrial Productions. Bella has been a finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, the Heideman Award, the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, the Sam French OOB Festival, and the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition.

Recently, Bella’s short play The Offer was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019 (Smith & Krauss) and her play Eleven Thing that Almost Happened to Rick and Hannah, and One thing that Actually Did is included in The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 (Applause Publishing). Bella is a co-editor of Interventions at Contemporary Theatre Review, the literary manager of Post-Industrial Productions, and the Graduate Liaison for the Mid America Theatre Festival’s Playwriting Symposium. Bella holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University, an MFA in Playwriting from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is currently PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at SUNY Buffalo. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Medaille College.