YouthPLAYS is a publisher of award-winning professional dramatists and talented new discoveries, each with an original theatrical voice, and all dedicated to expanding the vocabulary of theatre for young actors and audiences. Here on our website you'll find one-act and full-length plays and musicals for teen and pre-teen actors, as well as duets and monologues for competition.  Many of our authors' works have been widely produced at high schools and middle schools, youth theatres and other TYA companies, both amateur and professional, as well as at elementary schools, camps, churches and other institutions serving young audiences and/or actors worldwide.  Most are intended for performance by young people, while some are intended for adult actors performing for young audiences.

What makes YouthPLAYS different from a traditional publisher? We're taking advantage of technology to give you more options, options that are environmentally friendly and save you time and money as well.  Happy to read a script on your computer?  You can order any script on our website in its entirety for free as a non-printable PDF file.  All you do is fill out a simple online form and receive the script via email within 24-48 hours (if not within minutes).  If you like what you read, you pay the royalty and get a printable PDF file--print just what you need.  But what if you'd rather have something you can print out?  Take advantage of our reasonably priced printable perusal option, and get a digital file just as quickly that you can print and read.  If you decide you wish to license the play, we'll send you a printable file and permission to copy it.  Like doing things the traditional way, with an attractive acting edition that you can put on a bookshelf?  A growing number of our plays are available in this form too (with more coming all the time).  Any way you want to read them, if you are looking for a diverse collection of entertaining and often thought provoking plays, then search no further.