Special Events

Adele Magner Memorial Award

The 2010 presentation of our Adele Magner Memorial Award will take place on

Monday, June 7th from 6:00-7:30 PM
Community College of Philadelphia
@ the Rotunda in the Mint Building
(1700 Spring Garden Street)

The Adele Magner Memorial Award was established by the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Board of Directors to honor and remember the work of our beloved founder, Adele Magner. Adele founded Young Playwrights in 1984 to tap the potential of youth and inspire learning through playwriting. Adele was a true pioneer in arts education, developing our concept of the Artistic Team – the pairing of a classroom teacher with a professional theatre artist to teach young people how to express themselves through playwriting and to awaken them, their schools and families to the power of the theatre. The Award recognizes the work of a student and Artistic Team, a teacher and a teaching artist, for whom their three-way collaboration has made a significant difference in each of their lives. The criteria for this award reflect the three qualities that Adele admired the most: collaboration, perseverance and transformation.

Watch Flip Videos about our AMMA nominees!

Winning Team (right to left):  Student Jamekea S. Lee from General George G. Meade, teaching artist Dwight Wilkins and teacher Lori Odum.
       

Nominated Team (right to left): Student Kierra Jones-Fogle from St. Francis de Sales, teaching artist Jackie Ruggiero Jacobson and teacher Cecilia Barr from St. Francis de Sales.
       

CELEBRATE AND SUSTAIN ADELE’S LEGACY BY SUPPORTING YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS TODAY!