Community Actors Program (CAP)
Community Actors Program (CAP) is an introductory performance program utilizing Theater of the Oppressed, participatory theater, and performance as tools for community building and social change. In this program, teens work together to create theater productions and related events responding to a community issue or specific site.
CAP Summer 2020 Coursework Assignments
Summer Collage
For this assignment students were given the option of either A) Creating a vision board that expresses their goals for the summer or B) Creating a digital photojournalist collage examining what resistance looks like, what centering Black Joy looks like, what justice looks like, or what gifts they want to share with their community.
Monologue
Students read Romeo and Juliet as a class and chose a monologue/scene that resonated with them the most
Makeup Tutorials
For this assignment students were given the option of either A) Creating a makeup tutorial that highlights one aspect of makeup application example eyeliner or B) Creating a theatrical makeup tutorial for the stage or a specific time period.
FINAL PROJECT
CAP students worked independently to perform a monologue, or in small groups to write, perform, and record a short audio play about a topic or issue important to them. Click below to listen!
CAP Instructor
Nora Carroll is an Actor/Teaching Artist who believes in the transformative power of storytelling. Before receiving her MFA from the University of San Diego, she attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Nora has had the pleasure of storytelling in a variety of diverse spaces, including: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, The Public Theatre, Centinela Prison in San Diego, Metropolitan Detention Center in New York, and Armory Women’s Shelter in Manhattan. Nora is invested in creating artistic spaces that are transformative, gender expansive, and equitable. She is excited to continue this work with the young artists of Community Actors Program