ENOUGH! Seeks Short Anti-Gun Violence Plays From Teens / by David Hwang

Roundabout Youth Ensemble performing at the ENOUGH 2022 Nationwide Reading at Lincoln Center. (Photo by Sachyn Mital)

Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.

NEW YORK CITY: The teen playwriting contest ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence is now soliciting submissions for their annual contest, which will be judged by a prestigious panel including playwrights Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, Idris Goodwin, Samuel D. Hunter, Antoinette Nwandu, Octavio Solis, and Lloyd Suh.

“The recent mass shooting deaths of AAPI victims in California proves once again that no community in America is safe from gun violence,” said Hwang, a returning judge, in a statement. “Whatever their motivations, the shooters would have been unable to take so many lives without easy access to guns. That’s why it’s more important than ever to hear from young people across this nation who will speak their minds and say ‘enough.'”

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