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It’s Play/Write Showcase time!
The St. Bernard Showcase is presented by
Goat in the Road and the Meraux Foundation
St. Bernard Play/Write Showcase
Wednesday, April 24 at 7 pm
Nunez Community College Auditorium
(3710 Paris Rd., Chalmette, LA)
FREE! Family-friendly!
Reservations are suggested
At the Showcase, eight plays written by fifth students at St. Bernard schools will be performed by local theatre companies.
These companies’ adult performers will bring the students’ words from the page to the stage, celebrating the creativity of all 175 students involved in the Play/Write program this year.
Performed by:
Goat in the Road
Prescription Joy
The Coffee House Players
The New Orleans Showcase is presented by
Goat in the Road and the Theatre UNO
New Orleans Play/Write Showcase
Monday, May 13 & Tuesday, May 14 at 7 pm
University of New Orleans’ Robert E. Nims Theatre
(2000 Lakeshore Dr.)
FREE! Family-friendly!
Reservations are suggested
At the Showcase, sixteen plays written by fifth and six-grade students from the Greater New Orleans area will be performed by local theatre companies.
These companies’ adult performers will bring the students’ words from the page to the stage, celebrating the creativity of all 425 students involved in the Play/Write program this year.
Each night a unique program!
Monday
8 plays by students from the International School of Louisiana
Performed by
Goat in the Road
Intramural Theater
Loyola University Department of Theatre Arts & Dance
The NOLA Project
Tuesday
8 plays by students from Young Audiences Charter School
Lawrence D. Crocker & Kate Middleton Campuses
Performed by:
Blue Light Underground Ensemble
Goat in the Road
Jessica Podewell from Tulane University
KM Dance Project & Dancing Grounds
The Play/Write program consists of yearlong playwriting classes. Over the course of the year, each student writes eight original scripts and chooses one to expand into a full-length play. Eight of these plays are chosen for the Showcase. All students will attend the Showcase event during a morning field trip, where they will receive a formatted and professionally bound copy of their script. The evening Showcase performance is open to the students’ families and the public.
Check out our Play/Write video to see what’s in store for you at the Showcases!
Play/Write video by Bruce France Media.
2023-24 is our fifteenth year of Play/Write!
In Orleans parish, teaching artists Shannon Flaherty, Eleanor Humphrey, Chris Kaminstein, and Richon May Wallace are working with 300 fifth & sixth grade students at:
International School of Louisiana
Young Audiences Charter School- Kate Middleton
Young Audiences Charter School- Lawrence D. Crocker
And we are so excited to embark on year two of our partnership with St. Bernard Parish where we are working with 175 fifth grade students.
Participating schools include:
Arabi Elementary
Arlene Meraux Elementary
Chalmette Elementary
JF Gauthier Elementary
Joseph Davies Elementary
Lacoste Elementary
W. Smith Jr. Elementary School
The 2023-24 Play/Write program is made possible by the generous support of the Meraux Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Orleans Theatre Association. It is also supported by the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, the Pavy-Deblois Foundation, the Starseed Foundation, and the New Orleans Recreation & Culture Fund. Play/Write is also made possible by a contribution from the City of New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy and a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.
2023 - 24 is YEAR 15 for the Goats!
Watch the video above to hear what we’ve done and where we’re headed.
Our Season
Top 5 Survival Moves
March 8 - 17, 2024
Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St.)
Untitled Ukraine Project is Goat in the Road Productions’ newest original play built in collaboration with Ukrainian New Orleanian Katya Chizhayeva.
The show will offer a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examine the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism. Through these lenses, the show offers New Orleans audiences a unique glimpse of life in war, and helps remind our community that the effects of this conflict move far beyond the Ukrainian borders.
The 15th annual Play/Write program is bringing year-long playwriting classes to 11 schools in the Greater New Orleans area. The program culminates in two Showcases of student plays performed by professional artists at Nunez Community College and the University of New Orleans (free admission).
Goat in the Schools, GRP’s touring production of student-written plays, will reach over 2,500 students this year.
Carlota is an original musical that will explore the life and descendants of Carlota Ruíz de González, a historical character created by Dr. Denise Frazier in 2018 as part of GRP’s immersive show, The Stranger Disease, and re-visited in the digital project, Sick Notes: Letters from the Epidemic.
GRP and Frazier are creating Carlota to explore the Cuba-NOLA connection, as well as our connection to those who have come before us. An invited showing will take place in May 2024.
The Walter Anderson Experience is an interactive audio guide for the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Oceans Springs, MS. The guide will illuminate the life and inspiration of the visual artist Walter Anderson, as well as those around him who influenced and made his work possible.
The Walter Anderson audio guide will premiere in June, 2024.
Thank you to all our funders and partners who make our work possible!
Operating support for Goat in the Road is provided by the Rouse Family Foundation, the Foundation for Louisiana, as well as the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s COHN|GNOF|NOLA ARTS Award Program. It is also funded by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.