The Traveling Troupe is available for booking!
Board Member Julianne and the Traveling Troupe pose for a photo before they leave to lead a workshop at The Root Social Justice Center.
People with diverse abilities and challenges move mountains, break barriers, transform lives, and build healthier communities.
The Theatre Adventure Traveling Troupe is made up of adult actors with disabilities who bring years of performance experience to their work as paid professionals, performing and leading workshops for schools, advocacy and civic groups, library programs, arts organizations, and special community events.
Traveling Troupe Members lead participants in a mirroring pairs activity.
Troupe Members and participants raise their hands upward during a mirroring activity.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Traveling Troupe presented a workshop at The Root Social Justice Center in Brattleboro. The Troupe members arrived with friendliness and openness, and were greeted with the same by the Center’s participants. After eating pizza together, they circled up for some fun theater activities that inspire working together, along with plenty of laughter! What a joy to watch the development of comfort and camaraderie among the group.
A group of schoolchildren watches the Traveling Troupe pantomime adding vegetables into a pot of Stone Soup.
In our School Partnership Program, the Traveling Troupe brings performances and classroom workshops to mixed-aged groups of all abilities. They lead activities that create a positive group culture. Participants practice skills such as team dynamics, helping others, self-reflection, positive role modeling, and critical thinking. Learning directly from leaders with disabilities helps participants develop positive views of people with disabilities while building their own leadership skills.
A Traveling Troupe Member passes a large red ball of yarn, unspooling in a circle, connecting all of the students.
The Traveling Troupe workshops include opportunities to view our documentary, A Ballad of Belonging. The documentary shares the experiences, history, and culture of Theatre Adventure in order to raise awareness about our programs, promote disability justice, and humanize the community we serve.
Workshops also include possibilities for engaging with our pedagogue, as presented in our guidebook, Into the Spotlight. The guidebook is for those who are looking for a way to enrich the lives of people who have disabilities — people who have struggled to find their voices, speak their minds, and take their own places in their communities. Neurotypical aspiring actors also benefit from our model of theater that celebrates everyone’s individuality.
We are continuing our Winter sale. The Into the Spotlight guidebook pdf and hardcopy versions are now $5.00 off. You can purchase one here.
