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Professional Development Program for the Theater Development Fund


  • Literature to Life New York, NY United States (map)

Virtual professional development workshop for the Theater Development Fund, facilitated by Lisa Strum and actors Channie Waites and Kelvin Grullon

Theater Development Fund Teaching Artists will learn how to structure interactive lessons around James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Then, TDF teachers will take these Literature to Life lesson plans into schools in the NYC area.

There will be a pre-recorded performance of Oscar Wao available to Theater Development Fund partner schools March 21-25.

There will be a pre-recorded performance of If Beale Street Could Talk available to Theater Development Fund partner schools April 4-8.