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Contact:

Judith Cohen, Executive Director

San Francisco

California

Phone: 

415-921-8246

E-mail: 

JudithC [at] handfulplayers [dot] org

Website URL: 

www.handfulplayers.org

Description: 

Handful Players is a free children’s musical theater program rooted in San Francisco’s Western Addition community. Handful Players contributes to the rich tapestry of the community by engaging youth (ages eight to 16) in free theatrical productions and cultural events that facilitate and promote positive growth and constructive interaction. 

Our Mission is to help inner-city youth develop critical life skills, improve their self-esteem, and find their creative voices through theater performance.

Workshops and Performance. Handful Players conducts free two-hour student workshops twice a week after school from October to May plus an eight-week summer season. Each season includes workshops on storytelling, acting, music, movement, costumes, and set design. Handful Players commissions talented local playwrights to create original plays for our performances. Each season culminates in a fully staged, community performance put on by the children and accompanied by professional musicians. 

Handful Players also conducts an in-school residency of 10 weekly interactive theater workshops where Handful Players’ teaching artist and playwright collaborate with the classroom teacher and students to create a short musical theater production based on a book and the events and themes from the classroom teacher’s curriculum.

We hire exceptionally talented artists and educators who are committed to working constructively and collaboratively with the children to create unique experiences and help them acquire fundamental life skills. 

Please contact Judith Cohen at 415-921-8246 for a schedule and information about our after-school, in-school residency, and summer programs.

School Partners: 

Spring Valley Science School, John Muir Elementary School, Kipp SF Bay Academy, Gateway Middle and High Schools, Star of the Sea School, African American Arts and Culture Complex, Western Addition Beacon Center, Hamilton Recreation Center, San Francisco Boys & Girls Club, Opportunity Impact, Buchanan YMCA, MoMagic

• Services
• Arts Programs @ Comm. Sites
• Arts Programs at School Sites
• Membership Type
• Individual Artist
• Services
• Residencies / Assemblies
• Summer Program
• Organization Type
• Theater
• Grade Levels
• K - 5
• 3 - 5
• Middle School
• High School
• Media
• Drama
• Languages
• English
• Media
• Music
• Standards
• Creative Expression