REPORT ON EDUCATION PROGRAMS July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 Students are welcomed to a Project Discovery matinee. Overview Since the inception of Project Discovery (created with a 1966 grant from the NEA), Trinity Repertory Company has introduced more than 1.4 million students to the experience of live theater. We provide some of the best formal education and training programs in the country to students in grades K-12 from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, creating not only the next generation of theater audiences, but also the next generation of artists and creative thinkers. Our offerings continue with lifelong learning programs for adults. Trinity Rep’s education programs serve thousands of students, teachers and adults from schools in RI, MA and CT each year. We provide access to professional live theater with student matinee performances of most of our mainstage productions and curricular, in-school programming. We also offer year-round, out-of-school programming in theater arts through the Young Actors Studio, a variety of supplemental school-to-career activities for students of all ages, classes for adults, and professional development for teachers. Trinity Rep 2017-2018 Education Report Page 2 Providing a diverse range of programming, Trinity Rep’s education activities also include workshops and residencies in schools and community organizations, and school-to-career activities. TRAIN, the Trinity Rep Active Imagination Network, uses drama as a therapeutic and educational tool for children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other cognitive and physical disabilities. During the 2017-2018 season, Trinity Rep served more than 22,000 students, adults and teachers from 216 schools. All of our education programs operated at or near capacity for the funding period. Education Program Participation Summary ACTIVITY OCCURENCES ATTENDANCE 37 performances of Death of a Salesman, Skeleton Crew, A Christmas Carol, Into Project Discovery Student the Breeches!, Othello, Native Gardens 16,267 students and teachers from Matinees and Ragtime; and MFA student 216 schools in RI, MA, and CT productions of Love’s Labor’s Lost, Twelfth Night and Eurydice 6,445 students participated in All invited, following every performance Post-show discussions discussions with cast, crew and staff Project Discovery Plus 74 workshops for Othello 1,171 students from 14 schools Workshops Teacher Previews One for each main stage show 131 teachers More than 50 classes for grades 5-12; Young Actors Summer 9am-4:30pm M-F for 5 weeks in summer 192 students from RI and MA Institute 2016; with extension weeks for YASI Shakespeare, Junior, Players & Masters Courses for students in grades K-12 Young Actors Studio School ranging from 6 weeks to full 2017-18 178 students from RI and MA Year Programming school year programming 1,429 students from Achievement First Mayoral Academy, Classical High School, Boy Scouts of RI, Providence After School Alliance/Esek Hopkins Elementary School, East Greenwich High School, Providence Athenaeum, Off-Site Residencies and Rocky Hill School, Norton Middle Frequency and duration varied by location Workshops School, Dighton-Rehoboth High School, Nathan Bishop Middle School, Woodstock Academy, School One, North Attleboro High School, St. Augustine Academy, Dover-Sherborn Middle School, Cole Middle School, and Wilbur McMahon Middle School Trinity Rep 2017-2018 Education Report Page 3 500 students at Asa Messer, Carl Creative Classrooms arts Lauro, Frank Spaziano, and Alan integration in elementary throughout the school year Shawn Feinstein at Broad St. schools Elementary Schools and Newcomer Academy School-to-career internships, lectures, backstage tours, outreach Approximately 1,000 students from throughout the year activities, career fairs, & RI and MA workshops 624 students from The Autism Project, Seven Hills RI, Bradley Intensive, long-term and short-term drama TRAIN: Trinity Rep Active Hospital adolescent inpatient unit, therapy workshops throughout the school Imagination Network Bradley Hospital Center for Autism year and Developmental Disabilities, Bradley Center/Cranston 457 students and teachers from Coventry High School, Johnston ArtsTalk throughout the year High School, Cranston East High School, North Smithfield High School, Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts Adult classes Variety of classes September - May 85 students from RI and MA Trinity Rep 2017-2018 Education Report Page 4 PROJECT DISCOVERY AND PD PLUS Project Discovery and Project Discovery Plus encompass our in-school, curricular-based programs for grades K-12 that bring students and teachers to the theater, provide in-school workshops with teaching artists, and offer comprehensive study guides and post-show discussions with the actors and artists involved with the production. Project Discovery The 2017-18 season marked the 51st season of Project Discovery, our pioneering educational outreach program, which has served more than 1.4 million children since its inception in 1966. Project Discovery activities center on the student matinees, which provide students and teachers with significantly reduced cost (and in cases of extreme need, complimentary) tickets to Trinity Rep mainstage productions. Every class attending a student matinee is offered the opportunity to enhance their theater learning experience with standards-based study guides for teachers that highlight themes of the play and suggest activities for integrating the play into the classroom experience. Students and teachers attending a Project Discovery matinee performance are also invited to stay after the production for an in-depth discussion and analysis of the play with actors, the artistic/production team, and staff members. Teachers, students, teaching artists, and parents all testify that Project Discovery and Project Discovery Plus increase students’ interest in the subject, their class participation, and their comprehension of the text. A teacher wrote, “From the reservation process to the performance, we enjoyed every aspect. We find the teaching packet/study guide very useful and comprehensive. Although we do not read Ragtime as part of our curriculum, the play was extremely timely within our current political climate and engendered a great deal of useful discussion among the students. Thank you for making the theater experience accessible to our students. We are very fortunate to have such a professional theater company in our state.” A middle school student wrote: "The performance of Othello caused me to feel many things about the characters differently than the reading. For example, in the reading I thought Emilia was like an evil minion for Iago, but in reality Iago tricked her, like all the other characters." Project Discovery matinee audience arrives Trinity Rep 2017-2018 Education Report Page 5 Project Discovery Attendance PLAY # MATINEES SCHOOLS ATTENDANCE 17 schools: North Kingstown High School, Moses Brown School, 1,613 Death of a Salesman The Wheeler School, St. Sebastian's School, Exeter-West 6 by Arthur Miller Greenwich Sr. High School, Rocky Hill School, Tabor Academy, Bishop Feehan High School, North Smithfield High School, Ponaganset High School, Ferragamo Home School, Nipmuc Regional Middle-High School, West Warwick High School, Williams School, Hopedale Jr./Sr. High School, Dartmouth High School, Cranston West High School 5 schools: East Providence High School, Barnstable High School, Woodstock Academy, The MET School, Village Green Charter Skeleton Crew by 1 183 Dominique Morrisseau School 116 schools: Riverside Middle School, Brennan Middle School, Anthony Carnevale School, Western Hills Middle School, Stephen Olney Elementary School, George J. Peters School, Lincoln Central Elementary School, Alfred Lima Elementary School, Washington Oak School, Orchard Farms Elementary School, Village Green Charter School, Saint Kevin School, Community Preparatory School, Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School, Block Island School, Classical High School, Narragansett Pier School, Clayville Elementary School, Bird Middle School, Sacred Heart School, Central High School, Miscoe Hill School, St. Mary's Catholic School, Burrillville Middle School, South Coast Educational Collaborative, A Christmas Carol Dr. Edward A. Ricci Middle School, Swansea Wood School, Lincoln by Charles Dickens, Middle School, Western Hills Middle School, John F. Deering Middle 16 9,544 music by Richard School, Oaklawn Elementary School, Cranston Transition Program, Cumming Edward S. Rhodes School, Lillian Feinstein at Sackett St. School, Winman Jr. High School, St. Augustine's School, Blackrock Elementary School, Chariho Middle School, Ricci Middle School, Hope Highlands Middle School, St. Mary Academy Bay View, East Providence High School, Community Connections Inc., North Stonington Christian Academy, Overdeep Homeschool, Griswold Middle School, EnrichRI Homeschool Group, Advanced Math & Science Academy, Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, Steere Farm Elementary School, Attleboro High School, Esek Hopkins Middle School, Lincoln Middle School, Vincent J. Gallagher Middle School, Qualters Middle School, Barrington Christian Academy, Saint Paul School, Clark Lane Middle School, Founders Academy at Trinity Rep 2017-2018 Education Report Page 6 Beacon Charter, Carver Middle School, San Miguel School of Providence, Community School, Vincent J. Gallagher Middle School, Providence Country Day School, Anchor Learning Academy, St. Andrew's School, Scituate Middle School, Hope Highlands Middle School,