Check out this year's theme:

Empathy in Action

Empathy is the ability to listen to someone and emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their shoes. Essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else's position without being judgmental and communicating to them that you are there for them. You are responding to them in an empathetic and understanding way.

Congratulations to our Winners:

Middle School

National Winner: Empower Me - by Annika Evans. Host: Children's Theater of Madison

Runner-up: Never Too Late -by Emma Beckman. Host: Playhouse on the Square

Honorable Mention: Two Servings of Trauma with a Side of Fixing the Story by Adeline Sorensen
Host: UVU Theatre for Youth and Education Center

High School

National Winner: Paper Planes by Phelix Bowen. Host: Childsplay Inc

National Winner: Dear Doris Grant by Paulina Senges-Ocasio. Host: Orlando Family Stage

Runner-up: And The World Goes Blind by Blu Guapo-Rhoden. Host: Ramon C Cortines Scholl of Visual & Performing Arts

Honorable Mention: Grandma Fullmer by Caterina Berrio, UVU Theatre for Youth and Education Center

Honorable Mention: Antique of Empathy, Marie Walters Host: Playhouse on the Square

Adult category

National Winner: The Edge of Play by Janine Sobeck Knighton

Runner-up: Bottom’s Nightmare by J.S. Puller