Teen Leader Stipend applications due Monday!

Creative young people ages 14 – 20

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Become a part of This Is Important!, An Ensemble-Creation Experience

We are looking for young leaders, artists and visionaries to join us in the creation of a new play with music. This will be built from the ground up by members of the company, working with Oddfellows Playhouse Artistic Director Dic Wheeler and Connecticut State Troubadour Nekita Waller.

During five Creation Workshops this winter, the Company will start by identifying the current issues (personal, social, political, societal) that have the most urgency for members of the group.  We will use writing, interviewing, improvisation, role plays, movement, song-writing and composition to develop material around these issues. This raw material will be shaped into an original play which will be performed in May on the main stage by the Oddfellows Teen Repertory Company.

10 Teen Leader Awards of $125 are available to individuals ages 15 – 20 who actively participate in all 5 Creation Workshops.

Anyone participating in the workshops is encouraged (but not required) to audition for the Spring production. 14 year olds and those not able to commit to all 5 workshops are welcome to participate, but are not eligible for stipends. Anyone ages 14 – 20 is welcome to one or all Creation Workshops and is encouraged to audition for the show!

CREATION WORKHOPS: Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, January 31, February 7, 14, 21, & 28

Auditions: March 25 or 28, 6:30 – 8:30

Rehearsals: Mondays & Thursdays, 6:30 – 9 pm, starting April 1.

Performance dates: May 16 – 18 & 23 – 25

All events take place at Oddfellows Playhouse, 128 Washington Street, Middletown

Applications for Teen Leaders are due January 28 & available at www.oddfellows.org.

For more info call (860) 347-6143 or email info@oddfellows.org.

Made possible by a generous grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts