Theatre Arts Program
Friday, November 13th 2020, 2pm to 4pm EST
About the Workshop
In her tenure as artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage—and prior to that as Director of Special Artistic Projects at The Public Theater of New York—Stephanie Ybarra has been guided by a commitment to the ways theatre helps create a more socially just world. In this hands-on, camera-on workshop we'll ask: how does a theatre maintain a meaningful commitment to its core values across all operations? How does it sustain these values even in crisis?
Stephanie Ybarra will draw from the challenges currently arising from the COVID pandemic and the decisions that Baltimore Center Stage and theatres around the country are making. This interactive case study asks how to negotiate decisions in programming, budgets, crisis management, consensus building, and institutional culture, when core values come into conflict with each other.
About the Artist
Stephanie Ybarra began her tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage in 2018 after serving seven years as Director of Special Artistic Projects for The Public Theater in New York. Her career spans over two decades and includes roles at Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theater, Two River Theater Company, and Playwrights Realm. During her time in New York she co-founded the Artists’ Anti-Racism Coalition, a grassroots organizing effort to dismantle systems of oppression in the Off-Broadway community. Recent awards and honors include the 2018 Nation Builder Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators as well as being counted among the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2019 YBCA 100. She is on faculty at The Juilliard School and serves on the boards of The Make Believe Association and Citizen University. Stephanie holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama.
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The Theatre Arts Program, Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn Performing Arts Initiative, and Sachs Program for Arts Innovation present:
Case Studies in Leadership, Social Justice, and the Performing Arts: Bringing Critical Reflection into Practice
The performing arts are, at their heart, social endeavors. If they are to be a social good they must be guided by an ethical disposition to protect and advance the well-being of others and a commitment to collective flourishing. How does such an ethical disposition intersect with the complex process of art-making and arts-management in the real world?
In this series of workshops, led by nationally-recognized artists and arts-leaders, students will consider moves they can make now—in their student groups, in their classrooms, and beyond—to more fully align their activities in the performing arts with an ethical commitment to social and racial justice.
SAVE THE DATE:
Friday, November 13, 2020, 2-5pm EST with Baltimore Center Stage’s Stephanie Ybarra.
Friday, February 26, 2021, 2-5pm with the Public Theater’s Shanta Thake and Asha Nelson-Williams