Projects for the 2016/17 Season are still in development. They currently include -
- THE LITTLE ROCK PROJECT - which focuses on segregation in schools and communities, fusing theater, civil rights history, and leadership development. The project will engage young women ages 13-18 in a eight month fellowship.
The 2015/16 Season
- All season projects will be performed by young women ages 12-18; all entwine theater, history, and community engagement.
- BIRMINGHAM 1963 - the story of teens who played a pivotal and dangerous role in this early civil rights campaign
- THE STATE OF THE LES - a collection of interviews from LES residents and workers on the current state of the LES
All program participants will not only learn deeply about these historical events but about how issues of race, segregation, and tenant organizing affect us all today.
THE 2014/15 SEASON
- BENDING THE ARC - a year long theater/history/community engagement project, final performances told the story of Selma in 1965 through the words of those who were there.
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - an all female multiracial ensemble in an original adaptaion of this classic of the Jim Crow era in the South.
- Other projects: artist residencies, Lower East Side History Month, LES Stories
THE 2013/14 SEASON
- THE WAISTMAKERS' OPERA, performed by 'The Bowery Birds', May 21-23 at Speyer Hall, University Settlement.
- THE NEWS (1914 edition), outdoor site specific dance/theater work, May 3 - May 24
- SIMPLE, staged reading of original musical by 13-year old Leo Lion, Jan. 25
- HIS GIRL FRIDAY, staged reading, part of 'Reading American Films' series with DTA grads, Feb. 8
- THE GREAT STRUGGLE FOR CHEAP MEAT, site specific musical performances, Aug and Sept 2013
- The Bowery Birds performing excerpts from THE WAISTMAKERS' OPERA at the FAB Festival, Sept 2013; launch party at DTA studio Nov 2013
- CLUELESS, staged reading by DTA grads from 'Reading American Films', Aug 2013