THE GROUP THEATRE TOO, LLC*

GTT's Educational Wing, the School for Young Performers, has elevated and enhanced the lives of hundreds of young people and will continue to expand as an essential component of Group Theatre Too. The School for Young Performers educational outreach program is basic to Group Theatre Too's resolution to foster a love of the performing arts in today's youths while developing a perceptive and intelligent audience of tomorrow. The School For Young Performers, offers exciting, new and innovative educational outreach programs, that have already touched the lives of hundreds of students.

Good reasons abound for an academic institution or other group to align themselves with a professional New York theatre company and employ professional artists and instructors. Professional artists can bring a range of skills and experience to a program that are different than those of a regular faculty member or academic instructor.

Programs that you thought too complex or demanding to produce can be realized with the aid of Group Theatre Too's staff and specialized expertise. New choices create incredible possibilities in student education and of course a better student/school production/program means a more engaged audience with higher attendance and powerful program growth.

Not only does GTT enhance the production and classroom experience but becomes an extraordinary resource for students and faculty alike. Faculty members enjoy the new perspectives and added experience that professional guest artists bring into practice. The Group Theatre Too and it's staff can become an associate, a colleague, and a lasting resource long after the production and/or educational arts program has ceased.

All of GTT's education programs are under the direction of Broadway, Film and Television veteran Michael Blevins who will often act as a principal Instructor along with Associate Director and Off-Broadway performer, Justin Boccitto. GTT resident artist, Juli Greenberg is Administrator of the School For Young Performers and heads up Educational Development.

OBJECTIVES

There are 10 objectives to GTT?s School for Young Performers:

• To give students an opportunity for direct participation in the arts by working with Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre artists.
• To increase the availability of performing arts education as an accessible activity offered on the school premises.
• To decrease the amount of idle time by filling the children?s time with an expressive, fun and educational opportunity.
• To empower academic teachers with an improved ability to teach the arts and to merge arts education into the curriculum.
• To develop an appreciation and knowledge of the performing arts as a crucial form of human experience.
• To increase grades in school by providing a learning experience that requires sustained motivation and discipline.
• To give an understanding and clear perception of the performing arts as a career option.
• To teach children the value of group effort and team work while working collaboratively and harmoniously in a group situation.
• To aid students in expressing personal, artistic, sensitive and vital responses to their own work and the work of others.
• To familiarize students with the distinctive skills and principles that make-up the creation of the performing arts.
• To encourage students to embrace their unique selves by learning about and developing a respect for their own voice, mind, body and soul while inspiring students to use their imaginations in conjunction with their bodies for personal creative expression.