Meet Riverside County’s Youngest Award-Winning Scriptwriters: Ava Hemstreet and Xuan-Anh Biggs
Ava Hemstreet and
Xuan-Anh Biggs.
Winners of the Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival (PSYPF).
Most high school students can’t imagine a scene where they are surrounded by professional actors, an experienced director, and other creative professionals, all working through a table read of a script they wrote on their own. If they aren’t prematurely awakened from that dream, the next scene might depict a theater full of friends and family gathered in the audience to see their original work being performed live on stage.
For teenagers Xuan-Anh Biggs and Ava Hemstreet, that dream wasn’t interrupted by an alarm clock before another day in high school—it was their reality as winners of the Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival (PSYPF).