Yakima Valley College Playmasters presents its Spring 2022 Festival of New Works — original short plays written by YVC students.

Promoting student work is at the heart of everything we do in our department and we have discovered over time that one of the best ways to accomplish this goal is through the new works series.  Students who submit plays, who direct the plays, who perform in the plays, are not just witnessing our processes as faculty, or assisting us in our processes — they are actually initiating and going through their own processes, either as playwrights, or as directors, or as actors, or sometimes as a combination of those things.  Through writing their own plays and collaborating with student directors and actors or even community or faculty directors and actors to workshop these plays, students have the unique opportunity to craft a play from the page all the way to the stage. 

War is a Short, Sweet Racket 

Written By: Jose Rocha

Directed By: Victor LaBlathe

Starring: Damon Alvarez, Daliah Nelson, Esmerelda Cruz, Abel Palmandez, Carlee Richard and Jose Rocha.

War is a Short, Sweet Racket leads us inside the mind of a troubled young man who has lost his faith in his country, his girlfriend back home, and himself.

Letters

Written By: Tanager Ryan

Directed By: Sandy Jennings

Starring: Damon Alvarez, Dalilah Nelson, Abel Palmandez, Carlee Richard, and Jose Rocha

Letters is the story of a Newlywed couple recently torn apart by war as they attempt to stay in contact with each other despite the terrible conflict their country faces.