Maggie’s Farm Theater is marking five years in the business this year by looking for original scripts written by high school students.

According to Rachel Richardson, co-founder of Maggie’s Farm Theater, she and her husband Brad Richardson established the theater to help the senior citizen community in Park become active readers.

“Books Alive is designed for the senior citizen community to become engaging readers by practicing physical expression,” Richardson said. “It encourages active lifestyles for aging seniors, encourages literacy and the love for reading by bringing the book to life in a three dimensional way.”

Although students are unable to become readers for Books Alive due to a daytime rehearsal schedule, this year the theater is looking for scripts by high school students that involve a theme of bullying prevention, according to Richardson.

“We’d love to have original scripts, home grown from the community,” she said.

Sophomore Jack Breyak said he believes that having students write scripts about bullying is important because bullying surrounds students at school.

“We see it every day and it could happen to us,” Breyak said.

Senior Karlee Bosley said she believes seeking out students, as opposed to adults, to write the scripts is a good idea as students are exposed to bullying more often.

“It would be a good opportunity for kids or teenagers to do it because they are dealing with it in high school right now,” Bosley said.

According to Richardson, Maggie’s Farm has applied for the Arts and Culture grant through Friends of the Arts which would give six writers $100 each to allow them to attend an eight session workshop.

Interested students should attend a rehearsal held in the Little Theater in the lower level of the Lennox Community Center. Rehearsals are held Monday nights from 6:30 to 8:30p.m.