About Face Theatre 07/08 Season

The Home Project

By Megan Carney in collaboration with Paula Gilovich, Sharon Greene and the About Face Youth Theatre ensemble
Directed by Megan Carney

In a perfect society, you could fall and there would always be someone there to lift you up and dust you off and not leave you. In a perfect society, there would be lots of laughter, lots of joy to celebrate. And in that perfect society, everyone would join in the celebration.

For seven years, About Face has created its most powerful, innovative, and celebrated work in collaboration with Chicago's extraordinary lesbian, gay, bixexual and transgendered young people. This year, About Face is proud to premiere the most powerful Youth Theatre production yet -- The Home Project. Based on interviews with hundreds of LGBT youth about their experiences with home and homelessness, The Home Project is filled with astonishing, disturbing, and ultimately triumphant stories of young people who struggle to create a perfect society while battling complacency, violence, and apathy. It is the most thrilling, exciting, and important new play to emerge from the talented adult artists and young people of the nationally celebrated About Face Youth Theatre.

SUMMER 2006

CREATIVE TEAM

• Megan Carney, Author
• Paula Gilovich, Teaching Artist
• Sharon Greene, Teacher Artist
• Darrell Jones, Choreographer
• Ni'Ja Whitson, Assistant Choreographer
• Heather Graff & Rich Peterson, Scenic & Lighting Design
• Janice Pytel, Costume Design
• Andre J. Pleuss, Sound Design
• Ross Moreno, Props Design
• Cindy Savage, Stage Manager

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