Silently Sinking
By the 2025 Youth Creates Ensemble
Friday July 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM and Saturday July 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Silently Sinking is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching original play, devised by the Youth Creates 2025 Ensemble, about searching for home. A school assignment sparks a fractured fairytale, drawing audiences into a world of Pirates and Sirens, where they encounter love, war, loss and new possibilities — Finding light in the waters.
Each Summer, the Youth Creates ensemble collaborate with teaching artists to develop an original production incorporating what they have learned in workshops and out in the world, culminating in a spectacular performance!
If you can’t make it out, please show your support with a donation of any size at 7Stages.org/donate
Youth Creates 2025
7 Stages Staff
Heidi S. Howard – Artistic Director
Dorothy Bell – Lead Teaching Artist
Gabriella Collard – Stage Manager
Mack Headrick – Managing Director
Kai Anwuzia – Programs Director
George Kotler-Wallace – Facilities Manager
Devi Wells – Marketing Coordinator
Teaching Artists
Jessica Bennett – Fight Choreo
Ari Conkwright – Stage Makeup
Elizabeth Cooper – Shadow puppets and Lights
Theresa Davis – Poetry
Nicolette Emanuelle – Performance
Mark Kendall – Improv
Amy Morrow – Comedia del’Arte
Dr. Nyrobi Moss – Costumes and Character Design
Robby Myles – Film
Tiffany Porter – Shakespeare
Charles Swint – Marketing Consultant
Destiny Thompson – Improv and Film
Ensemble
Trinity Armstrong
Cameron Childress
Sarah Driggers
Skylar Ebron
Kathleen Fuller
Render Kotler-Robinson
Simon Magerko
Mara Millar
Mason Ourtz
Amber Wright
Interns
Liesl Cristy
Naima Fowler
Shana Hughes
Ace Magerko
Danny Simmons
Aubrey Salm
Gryff Thomas
Special Thanks to:
Abby Richards
Josef “Wuzii” Anwuzia
Orlando Ramos
Kalani Singleton
Ava Mason
Marisol Ramirez
The Staff at Little Debbies
Friends at Theatrical Outfit
Ben and Megan at Kaluna Farms Retreat
Nano
Java Lords
Karin and Jacques Mebius
Adam Pelletier
Lena Kotler-Wallace
Aleix Kotler-Wallace
Matt Terrell, Amber Nash and the KSU Documentary Class
All of the Parents and Guardians
Noot
Youth Creates 2025
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
June 23 – July 27, 2025
Monday – Friday from 10 AM – 5 PM
Join us as we collaborate with our ensemble and teaching artists in workshops including scene development, devised theatre and film, music composition, dance including African, modern and hip hop, voice technique, and scenic, costume, and lighting design, and so much more. Together, we will develop an original piece incorporating what we have learned, culminating in a spectacular final performance!
SHOWTIME!!!!
Friday July 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM and Saturday July 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
