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 1 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)
A Beautiful Truth by Kristopher Wiggins (David W. Carter 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!
PUP Fest 2025 is sponsored, in part, by BBK Pest Control, Carol & Kevin March, City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Dallas Afterschool, Dallas Tourism and Public Improvement District, Diane and Hal Brierley, Diane and Hal Brierley Foundation, Edward W. Rose III Family Fund at The Dallas Foundation, Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, George Family Foundation-Next Generation Fund, Harold Simmons Foundation, Karve Media and Creative Services, Louise W. Kahn Endowment Fund at The Dallas Foundation, McCune Charitable Trust, Moody Fund for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, SullivanPerkins, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Addy Foundation, The Harold Simmons Foundation, The Holloway Family Foundation, The Koz Foundation, The Rea Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, and individual donors.
