Invitation to Culmination of Middle School Playwriting Program – Center Theatre Group (CTG)
2 mins, 2012
This short video was part of an invite sent out for the culmination. The program's main video 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.