This panel discussion will illuminate the approaches of the Cleveland School of the Arts’s young playwrights program through which high school students were guided by a variety of voices (teacher, professional playwrights, recent alumni) as they crafted full-length plays for CSA’s New Works Festival. The panel includes Carl Walton and Ananias Dixon, playwrights and graduates of the program, who co-founded D.O.C. Studios in Cleveland to build on the new play approaches of their late mentor, Dr. Scott Miller. The panel includes TYA playwright Eric Coble who serves as a professional mentor for the young writers at CSA, as well as John Newman who depicts the CSA program in his book Playwriting in Schools.