SAN DIEGO ARTS : Theater

The 1987 winners of the California Young Playwrights Project have been announced, and three of the five are from San Diego. Four will have their scripts produced at the original Gaslamp Quarter Theatre: Karen Hartman (a repeat winner from last year), 17, from La Jolla High School; Rita Jeffries, 17, from Grossmont High School, and Josefina M. Lopez, 18, and Pamela Mshana, 18, both graduates of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. The fifth, Kari Lydersen, 12, from Diegueno Junior High School, will be given a rehearsed reading as the most promising work from a writer under 14.