Jeff Gilliland of Young Playwrights’ Theater on Helping the Arts

Through the Noise #54

Jeff Gilliland // Communications Associate// Young Playwrights’ Theater

How do you teach play writing? Young Playwrights’ Theater is teaching just that too students. Learn more about how they are helping bring to the arts to young students today.

As the Communications Associate for Young Playwrights’ Theater, Jeff Gilliland spends his days promoting events, writing blog posts and designing materials to share the work of YPT and its students with the larger community. He can often be found staring off into space, wondering how to say, “Common Core-aligned, arts-integrated creative writing program” in a hashtag.

Young Playwrights’ Theater inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices, teaching English Language Arts, critical thinking and creative expression to public and public charter school students in Greater Washington through the art of playwriting.