Character Cards
Dracut Youth Theatre Circle
Indicating a successful experiment - participants learned different ways to begin a creative process, and each person created their own original character, costumed their character, posed for photos as their character, and helped with lighting during photoshoots for other characters!
Better writing about all that goes here is the idea
Dracut Youth Theatre Circle members created their own characters over the course of 8 weeks. On the last day, we used the Dracut Historical Society's historic home museum as the backdrop for photoshoots capturing each character. Then, in the weeks following the end of the program, The Living Theatre created these digital "character cards," inspired by trading cards for sports icons or like Pokemon, which included an animated image of the character using the photos and a short description of the character.
DYTC is what you want it to be!
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costume & set design
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dance & performance
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sound, light, & music design
The great thing about theatre is that no matter what you are interested in, there is something for you to do.
DYTC is a place for young people in Dracut to develop their creative and cooperative skills in a way that gives them purpose and a sense of usefulness that they will carry with them throughout their lives on stage and off.
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The Basics:
Who
6th-8th graders who live in Dracut or Tyngsborough
When
Saturdays, 2-5pm
April 25th-June 13th
Where
Harmony Hall
1660 Lakeview Ave.
Dracut, MA 01826
Program Facilitator
Emma Sue Harris
You might know them as "Mx. Emma," a part-time substitute at Richardson Middle School - now get to know Emma Sue Harris as a Living Theatre company member & dramaturg who is so excited to be facilitating DYTC this Spring!
Emma is originally from South Florida, where they graduated from A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. They then attended Webster Conservatory's BFA Musical Theatre program before eventually returning to South Florida to start their professional career as an actor, dramaturg, and theatre maker. While working at Actors' Rep as an Artistic Assistant, Emma co-facilitated Youth Actors' Guild (YAG) at Actors' Rep in West Palm Beach, and they were an instructor at Actors' Rep summer camp as well as a private audition coach. Emma created a popular virtual class for adults during the pandemic called Not Your Mom's Theatre History. Currently, Emma is a member of the Dracut Community Chorus, and serves on the advisory board for the Milford Area Players.
*full resume/professional references available upon request
Questions?
Contact Emma by call or text at (561) 906-3662 OR email at info@livingtheatre.org with "DYTC" in the subject line.
Program Administrator
Brad Burgess
Brad Burgess is an OBIE Award winning actor and the Artistic Director of The Living Theatre, the longest running experimental theatre company in the United States, founded in 1947.
After spending most of the last twenty years in NYC, Brad has moved the company to Dracut, MA where he is originally from, to focus work in the Greater Lowell and Merrimack Valley areas. Brad has done theatre around the world - all over Europe, parts of Brazil, and most recently in South Korea. Since 2014, he has also been a facilitator with The All Stars Project, a national youth non profit, where he has worked with The New York Jets, The NYPD and hundreds of youth coast to coast, from all five boroughs NYC to the San Francisco Bay Area.
*full resume/professional references available upon request
