Professional
theater training in English and Spanish
Working
Classroom nurtures new voices and creates theater that is
culturally diverse, socially accessible and economically affordable.
Our
performance program features:
-
professional training
-
playwriting
-
bilingual
theater productions
- color-blind
casting
- directing
and teaching residencies
- local,
national and international touring
- casting
services
The
Working Classroom theater program is based on collaboration,
innovation and cultural and social transformation. It provides
aspiring actors with tuition-free professional training, produces
thought-provoking, innovatively staged works that resonate
with young, culturally diverse audiences and pushes the boundaries
of youth theater while supporting emerging playwrights, directors
and actors from historically ignored communities.
The street conservatory
brings high quality, economically and culturally accessible
artistic training to talented students and adults who cannot
access traditional avenues to professional development. The
training program draws from Augusto Boal's approach to community,
Jerzy Grotowski's emphasis on physicality, and Viola Spolin's
improvisational techniques.
The season includes
a previously unproduced play selected through an annual competition,
a contemporary play and an original collaborative work generated
"in-house" using the Boal, Grotowski, and Spolin
techniques.
The program is
supported by: playwrights: Tony Kushner, Moisés Kaufman,
Carlos Murillo and Eduardo Juan Andino; actors: Ann Cusack
and Robert Madrid; corporate partners ClearChannel Communications,
KOB-TV and Target Stores; the Joseph P. & Jeanne M. Sullivan
Foundation, New Mexico Arts and Theatre Communications Group. |
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