Overview

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. This Keen Teens 2020 collection includes:

Cancelled by Kit Yan & Melissa Li
(4f, 3m, 3 any gender)
A scandal breaks in a progressive high school when Joey, the popular lesbian President of the GSA, accidentally sends an offensive tweet directed at Evan, a trans classmate. Tensions rise when their friends scramble to take sides, leaving Joey and Evan caught in the center of the drama.

A Sudden Rush by Matthew Stephen Smith
(7f, 4m)
At a school perched on the edge of a dangerous cliff, a new student sets off an unexpected chain of events when he proclaims his love to an unnamed classmate during a raucous and stormy lunch. Relationships are tested, secrets are exposed, and a handful of students find themselves facing a whole new realm of feeling and possibility.

We < 3 Mr. Marsden by Chisa Hutchinson
(8f, 1m)
There's an unlikely gathering of high school girls in Nicole Shepherd's basement. No, it's not a study session, and it's definitely not a party. It's a meeting during which Nicole reveals her explosive discovery – that they're all being sexually molested by their math teacher – and lays out a plan for vengeance.