HartBeat Ensemble's Youth Play Institute is an immersion into the realm of professional careers in theater. Young Adults work collaboratively to engage in community research around a pressing social justice topic and express their perspectives theatrically, through a political lens. They then learn acting or playwriting techniques, learn sound or light design, and even stage management or marketing to then run their own production about the research they collected. They also engage the audience in deeper discussions about the content as facilitators and activists, exploring how we as a community or individuals advocate for these issues pressing our community.