Southwest Audience Opportunity - Prospect High: Brooklyn - Feb 24, 25 and 26

NATIONWIDE WORLD PREMIERE OF PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN

What is Prospect High: Brooklyn?

We are pleased to announce the first‐ever nationwide world premiere of a new play! PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN, written by Daniel Robert Sullivan and a team of New York City teenagers, was developed in partnership with Education at Roundabout and the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships.

The play will premiere in 23 high school productions across the country between September 2015 – May 2016. Conceived by Daniel Robert Sullivan (Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys, Author of Places Please!) and co‐written by a team of New York City teenagers, the play focuses on four intelligent, highly charged students and one seriously apathetic teacher.Prospect High: Brooklyn was created with the intent of offering a new collection of serious, true‐to‐life material for teenage actors. The play addresses themes of apathy, revenge, deep friendship, trans acceptance, casual racism, self‐harm, and the power of both good and bad advice from teachers, all against the backdrop of an enormous Brooklyn high school. Prospect High: Brooklyn can be performed by 5 – 18 actors.

Creator Daniel Robert Sullivan notes: “The National New Play Network introduced the concept of a rolling world premiere in 1998, and I’ve always thought it would be great to offer that kind of arrangement to high schools. There is so much energy and power in teenage theatre‐makers, but that positive force is often felt only locally. By introducing this fierce new play to the nation’s high schools in a coordinated way, Roundabout is not only promoting the play with positive publicity, but the schools themselves. After much research, we chose 23 of the boldest high school theatre departments from across the country and can use this first‐ever high school rolling world premiere to recognize them and expose their power at a national level."

Prospect High: Brooklyn was recently awarded semi‐finalist status for the 2015 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center and has been published by Smith & Kraus.

Sullivan adds, “I wanted to create an issue‐driven, age‐appropriate, ethnically‐diverse, flexible‐cast play that represents the extremes inherent in an urban high school environment. Through nine months of collaboration, these teenagers have introduced me to the issues and debates most important to them. We’ve structured these conversations into the play.”