Young Storytellers Success!

Last night was The Big Show, the final culmination of the work we've been doing at Coldwater Canyon Elementary, mentoring kids through the process of writing short screenplays. For 6 weeks, we met every Thursday for an hour and play games and write with the kids. Then, for the Big Show, we bring in 10 actors to perform them, and they did a bang-up job. The kids were entirely tickled. Aaron, my mentee, was so absorbed in the performance of his story that he didn't even notice a rogue child who had made it to the piano and was banging away. It took one of our actors improvising a line about a piano in response to make him notice. And his parents were incredibly nice and so appreciative. Very, very cool.