Youth Creates

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Summer Theatre Training Program for Teenagers

Youth Creates is 7 Stages’ training program providing experiential learning and performance opportunities for teenagers. Through playwriting, design, and performance, students collaborate to create an original work of theatre.

Last years Youth Creates Production is entitled Are you going to answer that?

“Youth Creates has brought out the excellence in my son and all the students I’ve seen perform.”
– Carolyn C. Ball, parent

APPLY TO YOUTH CREATES TODAY

The process allows a diverse ensemble to collaborate, create, and communicate their dreams.  The theatrical piece created during the program each year is developed through input from the students.

For 2011, we asked applicants to help us determine the theme as part of their application.

Check out the photos from last year’s show on our Facebook page!

“It was amazing because I got to voice my opinion.” – Edi Henry, 16, Youth Creates ’07, ’08, 09, 10

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Teenagers eager to grow in their knowledge and experience of theatre.
• Students of all backgrounds, willing to challenge each other to explore new and diverse ideas.
• Young collaborators eager to work together to write, design, and perform an original work of live theatre.
• Enthusiastic participants who want to connect everyday living with the artistic process.

WHAT WE’LL DO TOGETHER:

As Playwrights:

• Engage in writing monologues, scenes, and poetry.
• Develop ideas into a script ready for rehearsal.
• Workshop writing with acts and designers.

As Performers:

 

• Train in European, African and American performance styles.
• Engage in scene and character study, improvisation, African and modern movement techniques, and vocal power.
• Rehearse and perform in a unique piece.

As Designers:

 

• Develop a creative eye and skills to communicate a story through images and sound.
• Provide the vision to create scenic, lighting, and sound designs.
• Learn and execute the technical skills needed to run tech and crew on a production.

“I felt proud and very important seeing some of my work in a real play” – Ashilee Thomas, 14, Youth Creates ’08 & ’09

“Youth Creates brings all the resources and artistry of 7 Stages to its student artists, surrounding them with instructors who represent Atlanta and world class professional talent in their fields.”- Alex Greenfield, 21, Youth Creates ’05 & ’06 -Graduate of  NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, initiator of Absolute …STEP, our program for college students and currently Assistant Directing on Broadway

PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2012

June 25 – July 29, Monday – Friday from 10am-5pm

Performances are July 27 & 28 at 8pm,

Closing session: July 29 , 12-4pm

The first week, create a tech design for Moving in the Spirit Dance Tour Explosion.  Performance on June 30 at 8 PM a playwriting consort will be selected from applications, auditions, and interviews. This smaller group will gather ideas and form an outline of a script for the larger ensemble.

• Mornings: Workshops in writing, visual art, design, movement, improvisation, and voice.
• Lunch: Ensemble-building, film viewings, and discussion.
• Afternoons: Development activities towards the creation of an ensemble-driven performance piece that will become the final production.

Additionally, the group takes field trips to local theaters for backstage tours and performances, as well as to
other appropriate venues in order to research the themes of the program.

Week 1 will take place at 7 Stages.  Weeks 2 and 3  of the program take place on the Horizon School campus at 1900 Dekalb Avenue. We utilize the theater and classroom facilities including the lighting and sound instruments as well as the school computer system.
The final two weeks we will work at 7 Stages in Little Five Points at 1105 Euclid Ave. Students will need to bring their
own lunch Monday through Thursday. Lunch is provided for everyone on Friday.

“This process has allowed me to work with people I wouldn’t normally meet in day to day life!”
- Tian Covington, 17, Youth Creates ’07 & ’08

Are we looking for you?

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Download an application: click here.
• Attach a one-page essay explaining why you want to create theatre with us and what themes you want to explore. Please consider the following:
  • Our Mission: 7 Stages is a professional company that focuses on social, political, and spiritual concerns
    in contemporary culture. We give emphasis to international work and new methods of collaboration.
  • How would you use art to express your feelings about current events and the world around you? Consider health care, relationships, personal and electronic interaction, and zombies.
• Attach a resume or description of any previous experience in theatre.
• A $25 application fee is required. Fee will not be refunded if you do not participate.

Apply with  a friends and receive $100 discount.

Auditions and Interviews: TBA

TUITION: $1,200/ a limited number of need based scholarships are available.