Over the past fifteen years, Actors Theatre of Louisville staff and guest artists have read thousands of submissions for the New Voices Young Playwrights Contest. Students from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and southern Indiana annually vie for the opportunity to have a professional production of their play and to be published in this anthology. The readers and selection committee pored over 829 submissions – some inspired by New Voices residencies – to finally select the eight winners and two honorable mentions printed here. The plays in this anthology represent the ingenuity, vision and heart of the young playwrights across our region.