PUP Fest 2025
Thank you for your interest in PUP Fest 2025! This year's Playwright's Under Progress (PUP) Festival will take place on Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm at Dallas College - Richland Campus (12800 Abrams Rd, Dallas, TX 75243), Building F – Fannin Hall – Blackbox Theatre.
PUP Fest 2025 features 6 plays written and performed by teenagers across North Texas! The festival will be followed by a short talkback Q&A with our directors and participants. Junior Players and Kitchen Dog Theater started Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest in 2002 as a new piece of Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Works Festival. An annual anticipated event, PUP Fest is also a component of the Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC), a partnership between Junior Players, Kitchen Dog Theater, and the Dallas Independent School District to provide innovative programs and opportunities for high school playwrights. The D-PAC partnership allows Junior Players and Kitchen Dog to serve an additional 1,000 DISD students through ongoing playwriting master classes throughout the school year.
Plays featured in this festival include:
What’s Wrong With Raising the Dead? by Hailey Bautista (W. H. Adamson High School)
The Watcher by Javier Murillo (Hillcrest High School)
Log 1,785 by Meagan Murphy (Booker T. Washington HSPVA)
On Another Rainy Night by Erica Turner (Bryan Adams High School)
my queen by Tyler “Tai” Walker (Booker T. Washington HSPVA)
Waiting for the Plug by Antonio Velazquez (Greenhill High School)
Space is limited! Tickets are limited to 4 per person. RSVP below today to ensure you don't miss out on this incredible festival!
