Until her sophomore year of high school, junior Caroline Fenty hadn’t yet started playwriting, but only a year later, she finds herself with an opportunity to write a play that will be part of a student-directed one-act festival produced by Oregon Children’s Theater this summer. Fenty is the only student writer for the showcase.

Currently, Fenty, the Drama Cabinet’s publicist, is actively involved with the drama program and plans to submit a play for the upcoming Visions and Voices showcase. Fenty has also been accepted to the Interlochen Arts Camp for her skills in creative writing.

Most recently, she acted in “The Skin of our Teeth,” where she played both part of mammoth and a fortune teller Esmeralda. According to Fenty, it’s “such a blast for me because I’m not typically cast in those sorts of roles.”

Fenty is also one of the directors in the upcoming show “All in the Timing,” a one-act festival that is entirely student-directed.

Fenty’s first play to be read onstage was “Stalling for Time,” a one-woman show that was part of a showcase called Visions and Voices, which takes place at Portland Center Stage. “I’d always been really passionate about poetry and theater, but I never really found a way to combine the two until I found that program,” Fenty said. Following that, she was offered a summer position for Promising Playwrights, where she wrote “Kissable.”

Though Fenty didn’t really get into writing plays until high school, she has been involved with the theater for a much longer time. “Acting-wise, I began when I was really very young,” she said. Even as young as in elementary school, she was taking acting classes with Northwest Children’s Theater.

So why playwriting? “I find myself so moved by theater and books and poems,” Fenty said. “To be able to move someone and make someone feel something is so incredible and amazing.”