Emerging from an intense two-day playwriting boot camp on Monday, a New York University student has won a shot at penning a short play for Broadway.

Second-year student Devin Mojica, a New Yorker working toward a drama major at Tisch School of the Arts, beat out five other alumni of the Urban Arts Partnership writing programs to get a chance to write one of the six short pieces that will be performed as part of the "The 24 Hour Plays" next month by a host of celebrities including Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gina Gershon and Zachary Levi.

"It's pretty crazy," Mojica told the Associated Press. "Now it's going to be 700 audience members watching. It's a little bit crazy."

The six students participating in the competition had just six hours Monday afternoon at the Urban Arts Partnership's officers downtown to write a 3-minute, 3-person play that was then performed that night before industry professionals and a panel of judges. Some of the actors who pitched in to perform included "Saturday Night Live" alum Rachel Dratch, actor Frankie Fiason, and Eddie Kaye Thomas from "American Pie."

Mojica won with his play "Naughty List," a comedy set in an anger management class.

Next he will be mentored by a master playwright and be ready to write another short play during marathon writing and creating session at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre on Nov. 17-18.

The playwrights will gather at 10 p.m. on Nov. 17 and must pen a 10-minute play by 7 a.m. the next morning; the celebrity actors will then rehearse the work for the next 12 hours. At 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 the plays will be performed for a live audience.

Despite all of the pressure that will be put on him, Mojica remains cool.

"Maybe it's because I'm in college, but I think the best writing happens between 12 and 6 a.m.," he said. "I don't actually start homework after 12 a.m."

Mojica told the AP the best part of the process was being allowed to express himself creatively.

"Creating art is so much more important than the paycheck, although I would like to stress that I'd love the paycheck," he said. "The fact that we can all fit in a room and come up with these great works of art is the best thing. There's nothing like it in the world."

The one-night-only show benefits the Urban Arts Partnership, an organization that brings arts education into New York City classrooms. The 24-Hour play project is backed by German luxury penmaker Montblanc, which has helped fund the project for several years, as well as, the Montblanc Young Writers Program, the AP reported.

Mojica said he's grateful for Montblanc and the Urban Arts Partnership efforts to bring art education public schools.

"Young people attending underserved New York City public schools get the short end of the stick when it comes to the arts, and thanks to our supporters we are giving them a fighting chance," said Philip Courtney, CEO of Urban Arts Partnership.

That contest puts Mojica's work alongside five other short plays by David Lindsay-Abaire, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck and Rachel Axler. The stars expected to participate in the one-night only event include Dratch, Jamie Chung, David Cross, Fisher Stevens, Natalie Dormer, Gaby Hoffman, Zosia Mamet, Rosie Perez, Julia Stiles, Amber Tamblyn and others.