With support from the California Arts Council, SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE will provide intensive play creation and performance training to ~30 low-income San Francisco youth, primarily young people-of-color. Students will attend workshops led by seasoned theater professionals in two cohorts three days weekly for eight weeks, culminating in at least two public performances of students’ original short plays focused on topics most pressing in students’ lives.
Our core programs and services include our legendary live musical production, presented annually in Northern California public parks from Independence Day to Labor Day; the eight-week intensive Youth Theater Program, challenging hundreds of young people with playwriting and performance workshops; the Young California Writers Project, our partnership with Balboa High School that support writing and presentation skills. We also work in our community on projects like the restoration of Juana Alicia’s powerful mural Para Las Rosas.