Young Storytellers Creates The Jamie Tarses Fund To Support Writing Programs In L.A. Public Schools
Young Storytellers has created the Jamie Tarses Fund to support writing programmes in Los Angeles public schools. The fund honours the late television executive and producer, who helped establish the nonprofit and championed its work with young writers.
Volunteer mentors help students write original scripts, which professional actors perform on stage. Tarses joined the organisation’s founding board in 2003 and served for seven years, bringing writers and actors into its programmes. In 2025, 786 volunteers mentored more than 440 students each week at 39 schools and after-school sites. The fund will be celebrated at the organisation’s annual event on 29 October.
In short
- A new fund honours Jamie Tarses.
- It will support school writing programmes in Los Angeles.
- More than 440 students were mentored weekly in 2025.
Explained simply
Young Storytellers is a non-profit organisation that works with pupils in Los Angeles public schools. Volunteer mentors guide students as they write original scripts, which professional actors then perform on stage.
Jamie Tarses was a television executive and producer who joined the organisation’s founding board in 2003 and served for seven years. She helped connect writers and actors with its programmes, which give students a chance to develop and share their own work.
The organisation’s programmes depend on volunteers and school partnerships to reach pupils. The fund is intended to support writing programmes in Los Angeles public schools in Tarses’s honour.