“I have such great admiration for Tom and Zilah. I feel like they just keep giving kids from my community a chance to grow and just see themselves in a different light.”
Imani Antone
Coeur d’Alene Tribe - Marimn Health Youth Programs Coordinator
Imani Antone
Coeur d’Alene Tribe - Marimn Health Youth Programs Coordinator
OUR PROGRAM
Thomas Kellogg and Mentor Zilah Mendoza with Boise Trio Upward bound young writer Marco.
"Especially love hearing and seeing the Mentor Artists one-act plays. It changes lives." Ed Keener- Kessler Keener Foundation
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Mentored PlaywritingA specially designed 1 to 1 mentored playwriting program.
A group of young people, each paired with a mentor actor or writer, participate in a fun progressive series of intensive playwriting workshops led by Master Artist Thomas Dean Kellogg. With a core emphasis on the importance of the young person’s dreams and aspirations, Kellogg’s method introduces fundamental playwriting tools that explore the use of metaphor, the creation of characters through sensory and emotional work, monologue, dramatic storytelling, and theme. The young people are taught to examine the dynamics of conflict, and write plays where crisis, urgency, and possible consequences are explored.
The process culminates in public staged presentations of the young writers’ original plays by professional actors. In conjunction with affiliated artists we also provide animation and mask making in our storytelling workshops. |
Elizabeth Frances Cherokee Actress/Mentor with Coeur D' Alene tribe young playwright Spencer.
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND TALKBACKSMAPP brings professional actors into community, in what is the second phase of creative mentoring.
The plays are presented at major universities, native cultural centers and schools reaching thousands of youth and community members. "The MAPP program remains as one of the most memorable and rewarding. The students blossomed into confident playwrights before our eyes. I watched them as they heard their words spoken and so highly respected by professional actors." Ginger Rankin- Author and Mentor
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