For our Spring semester, as their Senior thesis project, four actors put together a Children’s Theatre tour of folk and fairy tales that they wrote, produced, performed and toured to local area elementary schools which were very desperate for “”artful”" activities to supplement their curriculum. The performers then met the children after each performance and answered questions. These students worked for me at my professional summer theatre in Lincoln, New Hampshire where we tour Children’s Theatre throughout the state. ( http://www.papermilltheatre.org/ ) One of the students wrote the scripts and most of the music last summer for these original musicals which bring these fairy/folk tales to life!

We were fortunate to receive a Servant Leadership grant from LC so as to offer this service to the community free of charge. We are also entertaining the possibility in the near future of “”Classical Scenes in the Schools”" (similar to many professional outreach programs) where we would tour scenes from classics to teens and have a follow up Q and A on issues and impressions.