School Based Residencies

Teaching artists from People’s Theatre Project serve hundreds of school students each week. Our literacy-based Theatre and Poetry curricula are fully integrative into the Common Core Standards and our administrative and artistic staff work hard to support the goals of our partner schools.

People’s Theatre Project believes strongly in having each student assess, articulate and express their understanding of their studies in every class. We establish experiential, thoughtful and child-centered classroom environments in order to reach this goal. People’s Theatre Project also offers arts education professional development workshops to your teachers throughout the year to deepen their practice.

A Professional Teaching artist from People’s Theatre Project comes into your school and pairs up with a classroom teacher for one and a half hours each week. Our current residency offerings explore Shakespeare, Poetry and Conflict Resolution.

THE SPARK THEATRE RESIDENCY explores and uses William Shakespeare as a learning tool for the entire year. Students immerse themselves in the rich language, powerful themes and expressive qualities of one of his plays, and share two performances of their work during the year.

THE POP POETRY RESIDENCY takes student writing and performance to a new level, teaching them the concepts and practices of poetry, such as: figurative language, poetic rhythm and comprehension. The unit celebrates with two “Open Mic” events, where students perform their poems for invited guests in a relaxed and supportive setting.

THE ACTION THEATRE RESIDENCY uses Theatre of the Oppressed, a methodology developed in Brazil by Augusto Boal, to help students explore peaceful and collaborative responses to conflict and injustice that they may face in their lives. Through specific theater games, students are empowered to be leaders in brainstorming solutions to problems. This program culminates in an original Forum Theatre Play presented for the school community.

For rates and more information about bringing People’s Theatre Project to your organization, please contact:

Mino Lora

Co-Executive & Program Director

646.398.9062

mino@peoplestheatreproject.org

We look forward to hearing from you!

People’s Theatre Project, a nonprofit arts and social justice organization, unites members of under-represented communities to raise awareness of their shared struggles through the personally and socially transformative process of collaborative theatre making.