Kids

Ages 12—16

In this immersive workshop in partnership with Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the Long Island-based nonprofit summer day school for the arts, budding authors write poetry, monologues, and dialogue to find and hone their creative voice. Participants visit the Usdan campus working with students in a similar program to develop writing, respond constructively to one another’s work, and have fun outdoors. The program concludes with professional actors reading select pieces from the young writers’ work in a final performance.

PARTICIPANTS WILL:
• Meet other young writers from across New York State
• Understand the elements of drama • Improve critical thinking by responding to fellow students’ work
• Develop a sense of themselves as a creative artist


About Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts:
Usdan is the nation’s preeminent nonprofit summer day school for the arts. It has been included on “best of” lists by Time Out New York Kids and NY Metro Parents, and has been profiled in The New York Times and Time magazine. For additional information please visit http://www.usdan.com/

About the Instructor:
Arts educator, writer, and performer Todd Woodard has worked as a teaching artist for over 15 years at arts organizations including BAM, Lincoln Center Theater, Metropolitan Opera Guild, and the DreamYard Project in the Bronx. He engages public school students in theater creation and performance, creative writing, and arts-integrated literacy. Woodard is the managing director of Arts-To-Grow, an after-school arts program for youths from underserved communities, and is on the design and facilitation team of EmcArts.