Using role playing and reader’s theater offers strategies for young people to address personal development. These plays include: The Newbie. Maria and Kaylee are starting the year at new schools, but not at the same one. Maria’s mother gives her a cell phone, but warns her not to let it distract her. When Maria begins getting texts from someone called Sweet Pea, she investigates. Who could be bullying her? Is it her best friend, Kaylee? Then the out-of-sight phone bill arrives. Maria has sent more than 2,000 text messages and made other bad choices at school.