Youth Unscripted
Youth Unscripted is Urban Improv's after school program for high school students and has recently expanded into a summer program. During the school year Youth Unscripted meets once a week to expose inner city high school students to the Urban Improv method and help them become peer leaders in their schools and communities. During the summer Youth Unscripted intensifies to train a select group of high schoolers to become actors and perform improvisational scenes created by them to their communities.
Most recently the Youth Unscripted summer troupe had the pleasure of providing an eight-week violence prevention workshop series for Mayor Menino's Camp Harbor View.
"Working with Youth Unscripted
has definitely been an exceptional experience. The team of youth, with the direction
of Merle, continues to awe me. Their acting skills are outstanding, and they
understand how important this work is for young adults. This model is one of
the most effective ways to reach underserved populations and it needs to be
expanded. It helps nurture youth into responsible members of their
communities. I will continue to be an
example, and an advocate, for Youth
Unscripted.”
Darrus E. Sands
Assistant Director, Summer Youth Unscripted 2007
Program
Coordinator for the Choose Not To Abuse program at the Boston Public
Health Commission
For more information about Youth Unscripted or to book them for a workshop please contact Program Coordinator Jamie Ullrich at: 617-524-7049 or jullrich@urbanimprov.org
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