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105 East 22nd St.
New York, NY 10010
212-949-4800
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Advantage Theater Program
From original concept to curtain call, dramatic monologues to digital video, the Advantage Theater Program at the Mirabal Sisters Campus, a Children’s Aid Community School, engages students in every aspect of the performing arts. Its mission is to use theatre as a tool to explore the issues that deeply affect young people’s lives.
At the Advantage Theater Program, students:
- Write plays.
- Take acting classes.
- Learn stage-combat, magic and juggling.
- Design and paint sets, masks and props.
- Run lights and sound for every production.
- Write, storyboard, act, shoot and edit original short films.
In between, students make time to study Shakespeare and improv comedy, learn to sing and dance for Broadway-style musicals and prepare auditions for performing arts high schools.
Several Advantage graduates have gone on to audition for professional and semi-professional productions outside of the school. Other former members have postponed the marquis to give back to the program, returning as volunteers to assist their former instructors with the younger students. All of these students have discovered a talent and love for the performing arts that are an essential part of their lives and positive personal identity.
(Read about the Advantage Theater Program's 2004 National Award for Outstanding Programming presented by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Click here.)