| Education Outreach
One of Actors’ Summit’s core values reads:
EDUCATION: We value service to our community and commit resources to the production of education/outreach programming that enriches, validates, and supports the life experiences of people of all ages.
Actors’ Summit has made a long term commitment to using the art of theater to assist students of all ages. Theater can be an effective teaching aid in improving student performance in a wide range of subject areas. Past subject areas and the plays that have been produced to target them have included the following.
English Literature – Classics: Cricket on the Hearth, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, She Stoops to Conquer, Merry Wives of Windsor.
English Literature – Contemporary Classics: Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Candida, Arms & the Man, Picnic.
Mythology & Classical Studies: Oedipus Rex.
French: Tartuffe.
Science & Math: Copenhagen, QED.
History: Clarence Darrow, Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, The Guys.
African American Studies: The Fight Against Slavery, Shame the Devil.
Jewish Culture: Laughter in Three Languages
Sociology: Tuesdays With Morrie
Targeted productions receive special daytime matinees, discounted or free tickets for students, and carefully prepared study guides.
Please contact us for additional information.
Actors' Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts organization. We are seeking volunteers and board members. For more details, email us or call MaryJo or Neil at 330-342-0800.
Actors' Summit is working under a developmental agreement with Actors' Equity Association (the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers.) |