The Keen Collection: Volume 12

Overview

The Keen Collection: Volume 12 includes, in this order:

[REDACTED] Jr. by Alyssa Haddad-Chin
(Comedy / 3w, 3m, 4 any gender, flexible casting)
This world premiere one-act written specifically for today’s students explores authentic storytelling and theatre kid culture as a high school theatre program prepares their spring musical.

The Door by Amy E. Witting
(Drama / 1w, 11 any gender)
This world premiere one-act written specifically for today’s students tells a story of hope under extraordinary circumstances with magic, hope and love when a classroom must face the “new imaginable.”

Founded in 2000, Keen Company is an award-winning off-Broadway company producing theatre that connects. Keen Teens is a unique and free educational theatre program run by the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly-regarded playwrights and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an off-Broadway setting.

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Time Period: Contemporary, Present Day
Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Asian Actor(s), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Ensemble Cast, Role(s) for Teen(s), Multicultural Casting, Role(s) for Non-Binary Actor(s)
Target Audience: Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)

Authors

Alyssa Haddad-Chin

Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, Lebanese American playwright and arts facilitator from Upstate New York. She is the recipient of the 2025 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award for Playwriting. Her work has been developed with NYTW, Playwrights Realm, Mercury ...

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