In this course, you will have the unique opportunity of delving into Transformative Theater Education -- while you engage in community practice by working with NYC public elementary school students at an ‘I HAVE A DREAM’ afterschool program. This course will challenge you to consider how learning is play and how theater games, improvs and collaborative playwriting can allow young people to engage in critical literacy skills. In Monday seminars, you will explore the history of Theater in Education, learn how to design after school curricula and build teaching strategies. On Wednesdays, you will be onsite at an IHD afterschool program collaboratively running your own small drama group with New School colleagues. Investigating the major prompt with your IHD students, “TO DREAM IS TO ---“, you will explore this theme through a variety of theatre making techniques, building a culturally responsive approach to drafting curriculum and devising original work. At the end of the semester, you will help facilitate a performance, collaborating with your colleagues in a sharing that will be written and performed by your IHD students for their families and community. This course fulfills an elective requirement for Lang Theater Majors and Minors.