Listen in as audience members share their praise for the Workshop Productions! New Voices: Workshop Productions features productions of winning high school plays and monologues on Temple University’s Tomlinson Theater stage. Produced by theater professionals, performed by Temple undergraduate actors.
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The Barrymore Awards honor the best in Philadelphia theater performance and education. This year, South Philadelphia High School Principal Otis D. Hackney III received the Excellence in Theatre Education and Community Service Award for his work on “We Write South Philly High.” Produced in collaboration with 1812 Productions and The Wilma Theater, the play was excerpted for an opening performance by students involved in its writing and professional actors. See an interview with Kate Shindle with our Youth Council members (including two South Philly High performers/writers) and a clip from the opening performance. A big thanks is owed to the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage: Heritage Philadelphia Program and the Loeb Performing Arts Fund for their generous support that made this possible, as well as the stellar student playwrights and teaching artists for sharing their talents! And, of course, thanks to our filmmaker, Justin Seegmueller! The scorching heat of late-July Philadelphia could not stop the student playwrights and teaching artists of the summer playwriting retreat, Re-Vision, from traveling around the city to seek inspiration. They visited the neighborhoods to see just how stories live, breathe, and reinvent themselves in everything from the images of family photos to the neighborhoods and buildings where history is made. From Old City to Elkins Park, South Street to one’s own family albums, the city and its eclectic history of characters continues to inspire young minds in their exploration of how ideas are created and continue to be reimagined and revised. A big thanks is owed to the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage: Heritage Philadelphia Program and the Loeb Performing Arts Fund for their generous support that made this possible, as well as the stellar student playwrights and teaching artists for sharing their talents! |
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