Center Theatre Group’s Middle School Playwriting Program 2009-2012
9 mins, 2012
This was the program's main video. The short video sent out as an invite to the culmination can be viewed here.
Established in 2009, this three-year pilot program aimed to improve and inspire middle school students’ writing and creative thinking skills. CTG teaching artists partnered with middle school English teachers and local actors to teach playwriting techniques to students as they progressed from sixth to eighth grade. Final professional readings of the student plays took place at each school’s culmination ceremony before peers and family members.
I was tasked with documenting all three years of this project, covering residencies at five diverse schools in Burbank, Inglewood, Los Angeles, and Pacoima.