Theater for Young People: Cultivating the Artists and Audiences of Tomorrow
Friday 9/10, 2021 at 4:30 eastern time
Community Gathering on Zoom - register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member.
In the room: Luis Reyes Cardenas, artistic director of Open Hydrant Theatre. Learn about the only Equity ensemble theater company serving the Youth of the South Bronx, and how it has made an impact on an under-served community. Before COVID they produced yearly seasons of creative works based largely on non-traditional interpretations of Shakespeare's plays, as well as work by new playwrights and underdog classics. Though shutdown created obstacles, it also offered opportunities to rethink and re-evaluate programs, and they are coming back now and committed to empowering diverse creative artists, especially youth.
Panelists
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LUIS REYES CARDENAS
is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Open Hydrant Theater Company, the first ensemble professional theater company in the South Bronx. Film: Shakespeare High Executive Produced by Kevin Spacey and From Bronx to Yale Executive Produced by The Guardian. Actor: Fools in Love at MET, BAM, Lincoln Center Boro-Linc and Open Hydrant, Balm in Gilead with Barefoot Theatre Company and Durang, Durang at Open Hydrant. Playwright: Play The Papers For Lupe, Visa Decline, Place of Assembly and Last Exit In New York. He is currently a member of the New Play Development at Laguardia Performing Arts Center and a member of The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Company's Playwright Unit. He is the Director of Individual Events at The Stanford National Forensic Institute at Stanford University.
