With support from the California Arts Council, The Strindberg Laboratory will implement a 14-week Playwriting & Performance Workshop with F.A.C.T., serving 15 young adult participants, ages 18-25, with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This workshop is built to engage and respond to the needs of its ASD participants, offering theater training as a way to learn self-expression, confidence, and communication skills. The workshop will culminate in a public performance.
The Strindberg Laboratory (TSL) provides theater workshops, facilitates training, shepherds productions to otherwise marginalized communities. Our core organizational programs have included Break It To Make It, an unprecedented partnership that provides an integrated pipeline of support through theater arts, higher education, and rehabilitative service for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Another core TSL service is our Community-Based Workshops. In recent years, TSL has worked with homeless, LGBTQ+, and autism spectrum communities, with some of these workshops culminating in public productions. The third core aspect of TSL’s programming is our community-driven productions. In this regard, TSL is developing a new production of “Macbeth,” and also co-created “No Labels, No Walls,” an international arts group working for a more inclusive and equal world. The group launched with its first festival in September 2019, which took place in Helsinki, Finland.