Baldwin
Wallace
University
alumni
and
a
current
student
are
participating
in
the
Playwrights
Local
inaugural
Young
Playwrights
Collective
(YPC).
BFA
in
acting
major
Sam
Sommer
'21
became
the
youngest
playwright
produced
in
Western
New
York
in
2017
after
premiering
his
play
"SuperZeroes"
at
his
high
school.
Sommer
held
a
public
stage
reading
of
his
play
"Lies
&
Love"
as
a
part
of
the
New
York
Theater
Festival
2019
Winterfest.
This
January,
at
the
YPC
Winter
Showcase
2019,
Sommer's
"Levels
of
Consciousness"
was
presented
as
a
staged
reading.
BW
alumnus
Shaun
O'Neill
'14,
who
studied
creative
writing
and
acting
and
directing,
has
worked
on
and
off
stage
at
local
theaters
such
as
Dobama
Theatre
and
Great
Lakes
Theater.
O'Neill
has
also
helped
bring
classical
theater
to
K-12
students
in
Northeast
Ohio
as
a
teaching
artist
through
the
Great
Lakes
Theater.
Eric
(E.J.)
Dahl
'17,
a
theater
artist
based
in
Cleveland,
studied
acting
and
directing
at
BW.
Dahl's
work
has
been
presented
at
Baldwin
Wallace
and
Playwrights
Local.
Previous
credits
include
"Angels
in
America,"
"Angels
in
America:
Part
2"
and
"Romeo
and
Juliet."
In
January,
Dahl's
"Femoids"
was
presented
at
the
YPC
Winter
Showcase.
Luke
Brett,
a
Cleveland-based
actor
and
playwright
who
also
trained
at
BW,
had
his
play
"Sad
Martha"
produced
at
the
2nd
Annual
Cleveland
Playwrights
Festival.
Brett
has
been
working
as
a
teaching
artist
for
Great
Lakes
Theater
as
well
as
acting
for
area
theaters
such
as
Dobama
Theatre
and
Cleveland
Public
Theatre.
He
is
also
an
active
participant
in
theater
education
and
works
with
the
English
Speaking
Union
and
Marilyn
Bianchi
Kids'
Playwriting
Festival.
Brett's
"Like,
A
Gajillion
Consequences"
was
presented
at
the
YPC
Winter
Showcase
2019.
The
YPC
serves
emerging
writers,
age
30
and
under,
with
the
goal
of
preparing
their
works
for
production.
Collective
members
are
committed
to
meeting
regularly
to
workshop
new
material
and
to
helping
everyone
keep
their
writing
on
track.
