GLOBAL THEATER FOR YOUTH

Pangea World Theater’s workshops, and camps are designed to build global consciousness through theater that encourages youth to think creatively about their art and the world. Our goal is to build strong youth leaders through the exciting and challenging process of creating theater.

Workshop Directors: Dipankar Mukherjee and Katie Herron

10 week Saturday session: For grades 3-5
Youth will awaken a global curiosity through creative dramatics. Stories from around the world will inspire creativity and encourage teamwork in these classes.

Saturdays 12:00 – 3:00 PM
June 26 – August 28
Fees: $350

One week morning sessions: For grades 6-8
These students will explore acting and the collaborative process of theater while engaging issues that affect our world. Students will perform scenes inspired by stories from around the world encouraging creativity, teamwork, and leadership in these classes.

Monday – Friday  9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session 1: August 9 – 13
Session 2: August 23 – 27
Fees: $175

One week full day session: For grades 9-12
Engaging our global world, these student actors and writers will be challenged through creative writing, performance, and collaboration. At the end of the session the students will perform and direct monologues and scenes they wrote themselves. This intensive is designed to engage students as leaders looking at our world through a nuanced creative lens.

Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
July 26 – 30
Fees: $250

10% Sibling discount
Scholarships Available

For registration form, questions or more information, please call Katie Herron at 612-822-0015 x1 or email katie@pangeaworldtheater.org
Please register early as space is limited!

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES:

Dipankar Mukherjee is the Artistic Director of Pangea World Theater. He has been leading the organization since its inception over a decade ago. He was invited to join the artistic community of the Twin Cities as a resident director of the Guthrie Theater. Selected credits in Pangea include Conference of the Birds, The Chairs, The Island, Tales from Ovid, Shelter, Rhinoceros, Rashomon, Ajax and The Winged Seed. At the Young Vic in London, he worked in the production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. He has directed Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun produced by the Nevada Arts Council and Nagamandala at New World Theater in Massachusetts. He has international experience in creating theater in UK, Canada, India, South Africa and in the US. His aesthetics have evolved through his commitment to social justice, equity and deep spirituality and these factors along with relevant politics form the basis of his work. He has worked closely with noted South African playwright Athol Fugard and addresses issues of race and reconciliation while creating theater. He was recently awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship for his artistic work on non-violent methodologies in South Africa and India addressing issues of post racial and religious violence. He serves on the board of the Advocates for Human Rights, Partners for Women’s Equality and the Lake Street Council.

Katie Herron is a performing ensemble member of Pangea World Theater and has acted in Conference of the Birds, From the Ashes, Entrances and Exits, In the Mirror, Strange Voyage, Momentum: A Celebration of Resistance, Shattered Images, and Breath. As a strong advocate to end domestic violence, Katie is an original ensemble member of Pangea World Theater’s Breaking the Silence (formerly Journey to Safety), bringing this performance to promote systems change since 2005, and a performer in Praxis International’s Will You Hold My Child… on intervening in domestic violence cases. Her solo performance, Mirror, Mirror, was commissioned in 2006 by the Naked Stages program at Intermedia Arts, funded by the Jerome Foundation. She is currently creating a solo performance piece, Solo Flight, with Meena Natarajan. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and minor in Mathematics, Katie has also trained with the Flinders Drama Centre in Adelaide, Australia, DAH Teatar in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, and in the South Indian martial art Kalaripayattu.