About Young People's Company 2022

The most advanced program Piven offers to our youth performers in 10th–12th grades, Young People’s Company has a long history of seeing outstanding performers and artists emerge from its folds. After an intensive training and rehearsal process, YPC’s annual week-long festival of world premiere story theatre adaptations explores myths, folk tales, fairytales, and modern short stories and is consistently among the highlights of our theatrical season.

Young People’s Company members typically study with Piven for several years before being invited to join this elite ensemble. Company members are adept in all of the skills that Piven trains actors to value: they are dynamic, surprising performers who are sensitive to the emotional needs of the stories they share with our audiences. Company members are sophisticated communicators who confidently share their voices and take bold risks while simultaneously honoring the voices of their fellow ensemble members.

Many Young People’s Company members go on to pursue studies and careers in the arts, often coming back to the Workshop as teachers to share their passion with the next generation of theatre makers. All YPC alumni are valued members of the Piven family, who take into the community lives enriched by the Workshop’s emphasis on the deepest personal expression through focus on the communal experience that is theatre.

 

YPC THROUGH THE YEARS: a history of our stories

As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, we are staging some of our favorite stories from our history. 

 

ROSE RED 

Adapted and directed by: 

Jennifer Green 2013 - 2014 

Jennifer Green 2000 - 2001 

 

THE BLUE ROSE: A Folktale

Directed by:

Rebecca Kling 2012-2013

Director unknown, from The Young at Heart: 1981-1982 

 

THE MASTER CAT by Charles Perrault

Directed by:

Rebecca Kling 2011

 

Piven Theatre Workshop

THE MISSION OF PIVEN THEATRE WORKSHOP IS TO ENCOURAGE A PROCESS OF CREATIVE EXPLORATION THAT CELEBRATES EACH INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE VOICE THROUGH AN ENSEMBLE-BASED, COMMUNITY-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THEATRE TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE.

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