programs

Impact and Achievements

 

In nine years Opening Act has completed 70 semester long programs at 13 NYC high schools, serving over 700 students, who created and performed in forty afternoon showcases and thirty-three full scale productions.

 


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beatriz and Patrick after their performance of Fo’ Real at HERE.

May 2006

Afternoons of Scenes and Improvs—Culmination of a semester’s work

2007-2008

Clara Barton, Cobble Hill, Franklin K. Lane, Samuel Gompers, Graphic Arts, Tilden and Walton High Schools

2006-2007

Clara Barton, Samuel Gompers, Graphic Arts, Tilden and

Walton High Schools

2005-2006

Clara Barton, Graphic Arts, Tilden and

Walton High Schools

2004-2005

Clara Barton, Lafayette, Tilden and

Walton High Schools

2003-2004

Automotive, Canarsie, Clara Barton,

Grady, and Walton High Schools

2002-2003

Clara Barton, Grady, Telecommunications,

and Walton High Schools

2001-2002

Canarsie and Clara Barton High Schools

2000-2001

Clara Barton High School

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Full Scale Productions—Culmination of a year’s work

2008

Corruption in Holywood

Clara Barton High School

The Public Theater

Weaving Harlem

Cobble Hill School for American Studies

The Public Theater

Drowning in Choices

Franklin K. Lane High School

The Public Theater

Acquired Lies

Samuel Gompers High School

The Public Theater

Brookland

Samuel Tilden High School

The Public Theater

Alex & Dakota

The High School for Graphic and Communication Arts

The Public Theater

Dry

Walton High School

The Public Theater

2007

Welcome to Hydesville!

Clara Barton High School

The Public Theater

Love is a Gamble

Samuel Gompers High School

The Public Theater

Thanksgivin’ wit da Haywoods

Samuel Tilden High School

The Public Theater

Escape “…the last thing I remember is…”

The High School for Graphic and Communication Arts

The Public Theater

Love, Hate & Happy Meals

Walton High School

The Public Theater

2006

One Man, Many Mysteries

The High School for Graphic and Communication Arts

HERE Arts Center

Fo’ Real

Walton High School

HERE Arts Center

Happy Times at Jackson High

Clara Barton High School

HERE Arts Center

Hoods Have Two Strings

Samuel Tilden High School

HERE Arts Center

2005

Secrets

Clara Barton High School

HERE Arts Center

Flight 437

Walton High School

HERE Arts Center

2004

In My Dreams I Am...

Walton High School

Gene Frankel Theater

Creation Myths

Clara Barton High School

Gene Frankel Theater

DISS

Canarsie High School

Gene Frankel Theater

2003

Othello

Clara Barton High School

Chashama

2002

Boom Baby Boom

Canarsie High School

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Who Him?

So Talented

Clara Barton High School

Brooklyn Museum of Art

2001

Brooklyn2Manhattan

Clara Barton High School

Brooklyn Museum of Art