Summary of Programs
NCTC's current activities fall under four major categories: Theatre Performances, the New Play Commissions program, the Conservatory program, and the YouthAware Educational Theatre Program.
- Theatre Performances
NCTC's theatre performance program is anchored around their "Pride Season," an eleven-month season featuring eight plays and musicals. Plays are selected based on their examination of LGBT issues as they relate to our current world. NCTC also houses a Family Matinee program, featuring daytime performances designed for children 4-10 and their families.
- New Play Commissions and Emerging Artists Program
NCTC commissions, develops, and premiers one new play with LGBT themes every 24 months to be performed during the Pride Season and one new play for young audiences ever 36 months to tour as part of the YouthAware Educational Theatre Program. Since the inception of the New Plays Commissions Program in 2002, NCTC has commissioned three new plays, including Crucifixion by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally.
- Conservatory Program
- The New Conservatory Theatre Center provides year-round theatre training classes to young people across San Francisco County.
- In-House Conservatory for Youth
- NCTC offers classes for students of all ages in acting, singing, musical theatre, and playwrighting at their downtown San Francisco location, serving about 200 youth annually.
- Satellite Drama Program
- NCTC sends fifteen highly qualified drama instructors into San Francisco County Public Schools, offering a wide range of after-school theatre arts classes in locations convenient to participants and their families. All conservatory programs at NCTC meet the California Standards for Arts Education.
- Vocational Training Program
- paid internships and positions are offered to interested students ages 13–19. Students are employed as teaching assistants, assistant stage managers, assistant directors, and technical theatre assistants. This program serves 7-12 students annually.
- Adult Classes
- NCTC recently expanded its Conservatory to include classes for adults in scene study, improvisation, singing, and playwriting.
- YouthAware Educational Theatre
- YouthAware is an eight-show repertoire of plays, educational materials, workshops, and structured discussions facilitated both in house and toured throughout Northern California school districts, community centers, shelters and juvenile justice facilities. YouthAware programs reach over 20,000 youth per year, using performing arts as a vehicle for examining such issues as HIV Awareness and Prevention, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Hate Crimes, Body Image, and Diversity.
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