The Young Shakespeareans
TYS’ mission is to use the richness of Shakespeare’s works to create early, challenging, and formative learning experiences in LA’s Title 1 elementary and middle schools, and to promote exposure and high expectations regardless of students’ ethnicity, origin, or income level.
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CREATE ·2024 Grants Challenge"If I can do Shakespeare, I can do ANYTHING!"
The ONLY organization providing on-site, after-school onstage/backstage theatre arts programs in LA's most underserved public schools, TYS programs are proven to elevate academic focus/performance, and ultimately deliver full-production student performances inspiring school pride. From 4th grade through middle school, and with "Earn to Learn" opportunities in high school and beyond, TYS develops and showcases children's: academic and social potential; awareness of what they can achieve; and their sense of personal power, agency and possibility.
LEARN ·2020 Grants ChallengeThe Young Shakespeareans (TYS)
TYS’ on-site and online after-school program uses the richness of Shakespeare’s works to create early, challenging, and formative learning experiences in LA’s Title 1 elementary and middle schools, and to promote exposure and high expectations regardless of students’ ethnicity, origin, or income level. Our 12-week programs culminate in high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespearean plays which they perform in the original (abridged) Elizabethan text for their school, families, and extended communities. Your support will enable us to serve more partner schools and deliver full Performing Arts and Production Design components in each of them, greatly impacting our number of participating students, and reach to the school communities, families, and surrounding neighborhoods.