Gabrielle Poisson ’17 wins National Playwriting Contest

A play written by Gabrielle Poisson ’17 during Newark Academy’s 2016 24-hour Play Writing Festival, won acceptance to the Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival and will be professionally produced in Los Angeles in June. The play, titled Doesn’t that Sound Lovely? was one of 12 selected from over 200 submissions. Gabi will spend two weeks in L.A. where she will be assigned a director, dramaturg and professional actors. Newark Academy’s 24-hour play writing event is a biennial part of the IB Theatre/Advanced Acting class taught by Scott  M. Jacoby.  Doesn’t that Sound Lovely will be forthcoming on the WAM blog. Congratulations, Gabi!