Because everyone deserves high-quality theater education that centers their voices, YPT provides inspiration, tools, and opportunities for young and emerging artists to develop and share their stories. We prioritize young people who are targeted by systems of oppression, and we also collaborate with people of all ages who are invested in the ways that theater can transform lives and communities.

We administer customized, responsive educational programs, playwright-centered, process-focused productions, and other opportunities for youth and adults to develop creatively, personally, and professionally. Across all of our work, we center young people and their agency and adhere to our core organizational values of anti-oppression and antiracism.

We provide these opportunities in order to achieve youth development outcomes through theater education. We engage our students in joyful, creative play, bolster their confidence and personal resilience, enhance their writing, communication, and collaboration skills, develop young and emerging playwrights and theater artists, and create an arts-enriched world in which marginalized perspectives are valued and heard.

YPT believes that young people are inherently brilliant and we exist to share that brilliance with the world.

Riot: The Beat of Freddie Gray by Ty'Ree Hope Davis