Like youth programs across the world, Mission Academy of Performing Arts @ Brava (MAPA) migrated online back in March 2020. The once hands-on, in-person learning experience became one in which students navigated theatre performance and production screen-to-screen.
Looking for new ways to engage, grow creatively, and express themselves, the students of MAPA’s Young Thespians Theatre Lab and San Francisco Running Crew came together virtually to present three student written, performed, and produced audio dramas.
In the creation of the audio dramas, the students asked themselves: “In the midst of a global health crisis and social unrest, what makes a story? Is it a beginning, middle, and end? Does it need to have some grand message or is it just something someone tells you?” These questions led the students on a journey in which along the way they questioned their own ideas about the world, themselves, and their relationships.
We’re thrilled to be able to share the completed projects with you! Listen below!