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Neda Ulaby

Teens wrote plays about gun violence — now they are being staged around the U.S.

The award-winning young playwrights of Enough! take a bow at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in November 2023. (Jati Lindsay/The Kennedy Center)

American high school students, who were born after the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999, are grimly accustomed to shooting drills and regular, if not daily, reports of gun violence on the news.

It was the 2018 school shooting at Parkland, Fla., that helped catalyze Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence. The yearly contest encourages young people to write plays addressing how ongoing shootings affect American lives. But founder Michael Cotey spent most of his professional life as a theater geek, not an activist.

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