Community Voices is a digital storytelling initiative facilitated by Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Students shaped their experiences and insights from 2020-2021 into stories and monologues. Utilizing drawings, animation, video, and photography, they applied digital elements to craft and tell their stories.

Watch all stories in one playlist, or scroll down to select any of 6 shorter blocks of stories!

FULL PLAYLIST

Block 1

PART 1
1) Untitled: Jocelyn Chiu (03 min. 04 sec) 
2) The Zoo: Imani Ayala (02 min. 23 sec)
3) If 2020 Had a Story: David Carter (01 min. 51) 
4) MOVING: Kenna Augustin (01 min. 25 sec) 
5) SELF: Zivia Allen  (05 min. 41 sec) *
*CW: Depression

PART 2
6) A Kid Who Helped A Kid: Magic Wise- Monroe (01 min. 39 sec) 
7) A Girl’s Perspective of Beauty: Iris Cheng (04 min. 01 sec)
8) Mike and The Demons: Kevin King (02 min. 51 sec) 
9) BREATHE: Rheva Wolf (03 min. 36 sec)*
​*CW: Depression

Block 2

PART 1
1) Tiana’s Quarantine Life: Tiana Albright-Woodman (02 min. 37 sec) 
2) A Future Lies in The Mind: Roshini Govindasamy (02 min. 16 sec) *
3) Cat Standing In Front of a Mirror: Christen Harvey (04 min. 24 sec) 
4) Imagining The Moon: Kavina Davis (04 min. 24 sec) 
*CW: depression, panic attacks, protest imagery and the phrase "I Can't Breathe".

PART 2
5) Caribbean Quiz!: Benjamin Lindo (02 min. 30 sec)
6) Back: Morgan McErlean (2 min. 49 sec) 
7) G.O.A.T: Rafiel Callado (01 min. 28 sec) 
 8) A Better Future 4 Philly: Tayona Allen (02 min. 16 sec) *
9) Never Talk back To A God: Shannah Alli (03 min. 32 sec) 
*CW: Black on Black Crime, Gun Violence

Block 3

PART 1
1) Untitled: Sequoi Felix (01 min. 02 sec)
2) What Now?: Aaiyah Smith (01 min. 27 sec) 
3) A Person Thinks While Eating a Banana in a Chair: Cecelia McKinney (04 min. 17 sec) *
4)  Dan The Robot: Mason Lauterbach (03 min. 54 sec)
*CW: Depression

​PART 2
5) Locked In: Grace Chang (02 min. 29 sec) 
6) I Am: Marina Hildevert (01 min. 24 sec)
7) PAIN: Janelle Turner (02 min. 0 sec)
8) The Adventures of Adria and Duke: Adria Goode (03 min. 39 sec) 
9) A Letter to my Mother: Carolyn Arnold (03 min. 13 sec) *
*CW: anger, global warming, uses the term Rap3