Welcome to ITLP!
The International Theatre & Literacy Project (ITLP) is a non-profit organization that
brings theatre artists from the United States to developing countries to conduct
community-based playwriting and theatre workshops for secondary school students and
teachers, nurturing their creative voices to enable them to express their ideas and
stories. Read more...
New Documentary Film
As part of our 2009 programs, documentary filmmaker Robert Poole
created a wonderful short film of the educators, students and programs of ITLP at work in Tanzania. We encourage you to view this
very personal glimpse into what makes ITLP so special for us all. More...
Big Success!
The ITLP 2009 Gala
If you couldn't attend the ITLP Gala to celebrate the 2009 Teaching Artists and programs, you missed a wonderful gathering of friends and supporters. With over thirty-five items in the silent auction, from African arts to tickets from Alvin Ailey and The Colbert Report, inspiring speeches from Tanzanian Ambassador Augustine Mahiga and playwright Asiimwe Kashugi, and a short film by documentarian Robert Poole, our future has never looked brighter. And it's not too late to add your own donation to the party. Please make a tax-deductible gift online...
ITLP Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant
The New York-based International Theatre & Literacy Project, in partnership with the Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education of Chicago, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation's Chicago International Connections Fund. The grant will be used to fund an exchange program between the University of Dar a Salaam in Tanzania and Urban Gateways in Chicago, and allow an Urban Gateways teaching artist to join ITLP. More...
Midsummer in Arusha
As part of ITLP's 2009 Summer Programs, ITLP Teaching Artists Nancy Fales
Garrett and Rebecca Blumhagen led the students of St Margaret's Academy in a forty-minute adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In the end, education and theater are both celebrations of the the life force.
That is what makes ITLP's mission so brilliant. That is why Shakespeare is a global artist. The students at Saint Margaret's Academy embraced Midsummer Night's
Dream with their hearts and minds and the result was extraordinary! Read more...
Support ITLP...
ITLP offers so many opportunities to be more than just the audience -- our programs are supported by generous donors, volunteers offer their time and talents, and our many friends spread the word. No matter what your abilities are, you can help!
ITLP Professional Development Initiative
Sarah Bever and Matthew Thomas, two graduates of the International Educational Development program at Teachers College, Columbia University and former public school educators, worked for ITLP this year through its Professional Development Initiative, a program that aims to directly impact pedagogy and practice in Tanzanian classrooms.More...
