Community Programs

Available for Booking Year Round

While our programs occur most often in schools, we are delighted to design and conduct programs with social service agencies and other community organizations as well. For example, we are proud to have been a part of these collaborations:

• We have offered 6-week drama workshops for adoptive and foster children ages 11 to 18 in conjunction with Family Forward. Led by our experienced and caring teaching artists, young people in this unique and engaging drama experience explored non-competitive games, improvisation, and theater exercises that fostered collaboration, encouraged success, and built non-verbal communication skills. Through improvisation techniques, students talked about issues of concern, and helped each other strategize solutions to challenges faced by the group. Studies indicate that theater activity is a powerful intervention strategy to encourage non-violent behavior in youth.

• Our neighbor, The Contemporary Art Museum, recently brought their high school art students to our home on Washington Avenue to devise original performance art pieces with a focus on the body as sculpture, the definition of “performance” and the differences between live and pre-recorded art pieces.

• We have collaborated with Hope Creates, to facilitate drama, creative movement and visual art workshops with teens and young adults in recovery to explore storytelling and identity.

If you’re interested in developing a customized program with us, contact Karen Bain, Education Director, at karen@metroplays.org or 314.932.7414 x 110. (As our staff continues to work remotely, email is preferred.)