Grantee Database
ABOUT PRODUCTIONS
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$20,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, ABOUT PRODUCTIONS will conduct the intergenerational “Social Justice Residency” which will engage 4 East L.A. area community leaders in interviews conducted by 25-30 high school students at Roosevelt High School’s Math, Science, and Technology Magnet Academy (MSTMA) in Boyle Heights (East L.A.). Students will be mentored by a team of teaching artists to collaboratively write 4 plays based on the interviews, collectively titled “Seeds of Resistance: Social Justice Plays by Youth Inspired by Community Leaders’ Stories.” A production of the 4 plays, directed by the teaching artists and the classroom teacher will be performed by the students and professional actors, presented at Roosevelt High School Performing Arts Center for a community audience with a post-play panel of the 4 community leaders.
Organization Summary
Now in our 36th year, our itinerant company’s critically acclaimed INTERDISCIPLINARY THEATERWORKS have been seen extensively in Greater L.A., in the U.S. and Canada, and on national TV. We collaboratively create and present innovative original theaterworks with community performing and visual artists to unearth and illuminate cultural histories of Latin America, the Southwest, California and L.A., and explore the human spiritual condition. We are one of the few companies that brings affordable theater to low-income, under-served communities by mining seldom-tapped regional histories that address relevant issues and under-represented voices.
In partnership with performing arts and cultural centers, community-based arts organizations, and educational institutions, we have collaborated with many of the region’s leading community artists — performing, media, and visual — authors and historians. Our interdisciplinary productions have integrated media, music, dance, and innovative storytelling and lighting design. Presented in numerous L.A. County neighborhoods, our productions have also been featured in festivals such as the International Hispanic Theatre Festival in Miami, Telluride Theatre Festival in Colorado, New Voices Festival at The Public Theater in New York City, and SXSW in Austin.
Our successful 20+ year YOUNG THEATERWORKS program serves L.A. area highest-risk and educationally disadvantaged youth with standards-based intensive residencies and workshops to impact their academic achievement, creative engagement and connection to their community. The program improves literacy, communication and collaboration skills as students explore personal identity, family and community history, and social issues. Working with committed principals and classroom teachers in the L.A. and Pasadena Unified School Districts we provide free or low-cost 6-10 week residencies and workshops. In conjunction with our original theaterworks we also provide workshops that engage students in the content and artistic strategies of these theaterworks, giving them the opportunity to see professional work and directly connect them to professional artists in their community.
Organization
About Productions
Address
145 N. RAYMOND AVE.
PASADENA
91103
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(626) 396-0920
Congressional District
California's 27th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 41
State Senate District
District 25
