EDUCATIONAL THEATRE

Our Teen Drama Lab, taught by internationally acclaimed professional actors and teaching artists of the Lost & Found Project, is a place where aspiring young teenage actors and young adults can develop their dramatic skills through a laboratory journey which includes theatrical forms and methodologies  such as  etudes, improv, theater exercises, voice and movement work. Using the verbatim theatre technique they explore their identity through family history research and personal storytelling. The programs engage teens, young adults, several immigrant and refugee communities in New York addressing pressing issues in the experience of the participants. Each course culminates in a performance at an NYC theatre, where the students present their individually developed pieces. 

OUR LATEST PRODUCTION

ARE WE THERE YET

theatre told verbatim by Ukrainian
teen refugees

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

2 performances only on March 16 +17

@ JCC Manhattan Theatre

Directed by Anya Zicer & Dima Koan 
Composed by Mariya Vasilevskaya

Marks JCH Presents: A multidisciplinary production derived from personal stories of ten teenagers from Ukraine; displaced and uprooted by war. Some of their families are still in Ukraine beneath the bombs. They feel the dissonance while stuck in a vacuum wanting to go back to the fateful day of February 23rd or to find themselves after the war ends, so they can return home. But where is home, and how can they shelter themselves from this horrific reality? When will the war end? Are we there yet? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg as they relive their traumas, reflecting the experience of thousands of refugees and echoing the voices of those who are still in Ukraine. 

This production draws surrealistic and yet vivid images of life broken by the war. Millions of people have left their homes fleeing from bombs…leaving behind broken objects and homes, but their memories continue living, traveling along with them. The stories in the production echo through teens’ personal prism – the impact of the invasion, and what is happening in its aftermath.

Teen actors:
Anastasia Panchenko, Danylo Boiko, Kateryna Slynchenko, Petro Politaiev, Eleonora Gudyma, Odnokol Kamila, Volodymyr-Leon Grytsak, Rita Krukovskaya, Yehor Popovych, Alex Atamas 

ARE WE THERE YET premiered to a sold out audience in March 2023 at New York Theatre Workshop. Stay tuned for tour dates and additional performances schedule.

ARE WE THERE YET is a production of the TUT (Teens Ukraine Theatre) initiative for Marks JCH refugee teens from Ukraine.

Sponsored and presented by Marks JCH of Bensonhurst 
Produced by Lost & Found Project 
Hosted by New York Theatre Workshop

Map by Rita Krukovskaya
Poster design by Natasha Mileshina 

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