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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE's Add Verb Productions launches 'Out & Allied' anthology featuring LGBTQ youth and allies' performance pieces

The University of New England's Add Verb Productions has announced the publication of its first book, Out & Allied Anthology, featuring youth-written monologues, short plays and poems.

The 34 performance pieces were selected from well over 100 submissions from youth in Maine and across the country. 

The material focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning) youth and the importance of allies. Included is a guide for directing, producing, and writing original pieces and other resources. 

Reading and Book Signing

A reading and book signing at Longfellow Books, Monument Square in Portland will be held on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 7 p.m.  Also, Add Verb will have a table at the Pride Festival in Deering Oaks Park in Portland on Saturday, June 18.

Add Verb premiered an Out & Allied based performance (July 2008) at SPACE Gallery in Portland for the National Convention of Chapter Leaders of the Gay Lesbian Straight Educators Network (GLSEN), and was featured in a short MTV documentary.  

The project went on to win the Portland League of Young Voter's Award for "Best New Youth Project" with favorable reviews as a "powerful, evocative and unique" performance "powerful enough to create change."

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.