Generation Young Theaterworks are youth that experience our impactful arts education programs at L.A.-area public high schools.

Participating in our programs helps the students to:

• Boost literacy and academic performance
• Increase creativity, communication and collaboration skills, and
• Integrate social skills with community-enhancing values.

Scroll down this page for more details on our 2024-2025 programming.

Receive recognition and gifts
at different donor levels (see below).

SOCIAL JUSTICE RESIDENCY

Our intergenerational Young Theaterworks program is focused on social justice activism and systemic racism. This Fall, 9th grade students at Math, Science, and Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High School will interview four community leaders in social justice activism. Following the interviews, the students will collaboratively write plays based on these first-hand accounts and perform them on-site for their classmates. A live presentation of the plays, Seeds of Resistance will be shared with the public in February 2025.

art of the monologue

A brand new iteration of this theaterwork which is set in early 1980s Bell Gardens, a Southeast L.A. working-class neighborhood. A trio of young punk musicians squat in one of L.A.’s oldest adobe homes. Inspired by the bands X, Bags, and Minutemen they build and rehearse their seminal songbook which reveals their burgeoning self-identity, and their relationship to the historic adobe, and to each other.

This new iteration will be performed at Plaza de la Raza in Lincoln Heights in March/April 2025. We offer discounts for veterans, seniors, and students, low-cost tickets for residents local neighborhoods, and Pay What You Can performances.

ABOUT...PRODUCTIONS' ORIGINAL THEATERWORKS DIGITAL COLLECTION

Housed as part of the California State University, Northridge Library Digital Collection, our Original Theaterworks Collection provides public access to our 35+ years of distinctive storytelling. The collection features scripts, photos, videos, and other related items from our original theaterworks, including L.A. Real (1992, 1993, 2006), By the Hand of the Father (2000), They Shoot Mexicans, Don’t They? (2005, 2017), Bleeding Through (2009), Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe (2012, 2018-19), I: Witness (2017) and Adobe Punk (in development).

$50+ - TRANSFORM

TRANSFORM Art of the Monologue highest-risk students with the act of self-expression by supporting our Young Theaterworks staff. Receive an Adobe Punk swag item and be listed as a
donor on our website.

$250+ - ENLIGHTEN

ENLIGHTEN students and audiences in your community about L.A.’s buried histories and support the cast, crew, and educators of Adobe Punk: the concert. Receive all items previously described, plus one additional ticket to Adobe Punk (for total of 2 tickets), a shout-out on our email newsletter, and be listed as a vital donor on our website.

$100+ - UPLIFT

UPLIFT our community with public access to our Original Theaterworks Digital Collection’s 30+ years of alternative storytelling by supporting our Collection staff and community outreach. Receive all items previously described, plus an additional Adobe Punk ticket, and be listed
as a key booster on our website.

$500+ - EMPOWER

EMPOWER public high school youth with our 10-week intergenerational Social Justice Residency by supporting our Young Theaterworks staff. Receive all items previously described, plus access to complimentary events hosted by About...Productions , and be listed as a vital sponsor on our website.