Registration for Theatre Lab Life Stories Institute Now Open

The Theatre Lab is taking applications for its Life Stories Institute, returning October 15-18, 2015 after a very successful launch last fall. The Institute is open to educators, service providers, artists and others that work with typically marginalized populations to reach them through the transformative power of dramatic arts.

The Institute is a four-day intensive series of discussions and in-depth exercises that will allow attendees to help those they work with to empower themselves. Executive Directors Deb Gottesman and Buzz Mauro and selected guest instructors will provide students with tools with proven success based on 15 years of experience in Theatre Lab's award-winning Life Stories outreach program.

In Life Stories, Theatre Lab instructors work with underserved groups - such as incarcerated youth, seniors in assisted living facilities, homeless women in substance recovery and others - to create original dramatic works for the stage and screen using their real-life experiences.

Anyone interested can register for the 2015 Life Stories Institute on the Theatre Lab website. Early applicants receive a discount on tuition if they apply by July 15.

The Life Stories Institute is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

You can see Life Stories in action in the documentary film How I Got Over, directed by Nicole Boxer, available for download online. A special screening of the movie, which features Life Stories students from our partnership with N Street Village, will be held at Riverside Church in New York City on May 28. Contact us for more information about the screening.