Education
Gingold Theatrical Group’s work to promote theatre that supports human rights and the freedom of speech extends beyond our stages into classrooms and studios throughout New York City.
Students from the Broome Street Academy come to Gingold’s production of Heartbreak House.
Education and audience enrichment programs
Through the following education and audience enrichment programs, we allow students young and old to learn more about Shaw, his work, and the causes he valued. Gingold encourages people of all ages to bring Shaw’s values of individual liberty and independent thought into their daily lives.
Gingold is always eager to build new educational partnerships. If you are affiliated with an organization that you believe would benefit from a Gingold educational partnership, please contact us at info@gingoldgroup.org.
From Shakespeare To Shaw
Gingold partners with faculty at a variety of educational institutions to develop curriculum around Shaw’s plays and ideals. Each Gingold partnership is unique, and specifically designed to best serve the particular students in question. Below are examples of a few of our partnerships:
GTG currently partners with The Broome Street Academy, a tuition-free public charter high school whose admission policy gives preference to students who are homeless, in foster care, or from low performing schools, to teach a six-week curriculum around Shaw’s Pygmalion. After reading and discussing selections from the play, students create their own plays in response to Shaw’s ideas. Professional actors visit the class both to perform excerpts from Shaw’s play, and also to workshop and perform the students’ pieces at a culminating final event.
GTG Founding Artistic Director, David Staller, partnered with Professor Andrew Flescher to create a course offered through SUNY Stony Brook’s English Department on Ethics and Humanities as seen through Shaw’s plays.
GTG partners with faculty at Regis High School, a tuition-free Catholic high school in Manhattan, to teach a course on ‘Theatre as Activism.’
Our class with Regis School
GTG is developing a unique partnership with the De La Salle Academy, New York City’s only private, independent school for academically talented, economically less advantaged boys and girls in grades six through eight. This partnership will focus on theatre’s potential as an engine of positive social change.
GTG partnered for three years with Lighthouse International’s Saturday morning program for inner-city teens. This program is specifically designed for blind and visually impaired young adults to help prepare them for independent lives after their high-school years. Employing scenes or quotes from Shaw, the students took part in lively debates about meanings and creative interpretations, relating the Shavian precepts to their own lives and ambitions for the future.
Our class with Lighthouse international
From 2006 until 2009, GTG partnered with faculty at Baruch College in a course on English Literature for Business majors. A Shaw play was chosen for in-depth study each semester. Mr. Staller and volunteer actors would attend these classes to read and discuss the plays. Discussions focused on the parallels between the daily socio-economic and political lives of the students and the issues dealt with in Shaw’s plays. At the end of each term, the students were invited to The Players to read scenes from these plays on stage.
Partnerships with High Schools and Universities
Gingold partners with faculty at a variety of educational institutions to develop curriculum around Shaw’s plays and ideals. Each Gingold partnership is unique, and specifically designed to best serve the particular students in question. Below are examples of a few of our partnerships:
Acting Classes
As New York’s Shaw connection, Gingold regularly offers classes for actors at all stages of experience.
Our fall, 2017 class, From Shakespeare to Shaw was co-taught by Gingold Founding Artistic Director David Staller and Associate Director Stephen Brown-Fried and focused on the similarities and differences between Shakespeare and Shaw’s writing, and how actors can best bridge the gap between their two styles.
For more information, please call 212.355.7823 or email us at info@gingoldgroup.org.
