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Our Programs
Our programs are voluntary after-school programs that meet weekly. Each program spans one semester to one year, and is based on curricula that use improvisation, acting games and exercises to unleash students’ creativity, foster ensemble work, and develop professional acting technique. Courses work toward creating an original production, written and performed by the students. Past performances have been produced at The Public Theater, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chashama, the Gene Frankel Theatre, and HERE Arts Center.
The schools we work with are selected based on need: we reach out to schools with a combination of low reading scores, low graduation rates and evident lack of theater programming. All of our programs are offered at no cost to our schools.
For the 2009-2010 school year, Opening Act will run programs in eight New York City public high schools: Clara Barton, Tilden, Cobble Hill and Franklin K. Lane High Schools in Brooklyn, the High School for Graphic and Communication Arts in Manhattan, and Columbus, Walton and Samuel Gompers High Schools in the Bronx. |
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