Take the challenge!

Applications are now available for our Summer Programming for teens & tweens.

Visit our  Summer Inward Bound Program page for more information

  OR

Download the  BROCHURE and Inward Bound application

Space is limited, registration is on a first come, first serve basis. To register over the phone call: (212) 741-9868

This 10 week long workshop will be held at our studio space at located at W 18th Street, near all major subway lines. Interviews will be held on February 14th from 3:45-6:15pm.

Click here for more information on our teen workshops

For more information call: 212.741.9868 or email: info@findyourvoice.us

Tuesdays February 14th- May 8th 2012

Find Your Voice After-school gets a new home at a professional  Theater Studio!

(18 West 18^th Street, near all major subway lines)

Find Your Voice offers ongoing After-school Workshops to New York City school students city-wide (ages 13-18).

Workshop format:

• Guided writing sessions in which students develop, revise, and complete a finished play, which ultimately tells the story of what is on their minds and in their hearts.

• Acting sessions in which students learn, through monologue study, how to listen and fully engage.

• A Final Presentation of the finished plays for invited guests, performed by workshop participants.

These are mixed level classes, where everyone faces their own challenges and is given the tools to succeed!

 Space is limited. Register today!

 Call (212) 741-9868, or email: info@findyourvoice.us

FYV alums and Broadway stars Bobby Lopez (Avenue Q/Book of Mormon) and Sarah Paulson (Studio 60/New Year’s Eve) served as Co-Chairs for FYV’s first ever Benefit at Lincoln Center on Nov. 14, 2011. Watch the video where they look back on their time with Find Your Voice and share how much the program meant to them. The video also features a scene from a play performed by Sarah & Bobby at age 15 (he had never acted before his FYV training, which he began at age 11!). The scene was from a cluster of plays entitled Ashes, which was comissioned by Phoenix House (PH) and based on stories told to our participants by teenagers in residence at PH.

The Benefit was also designed to ‘launch’ the company’s newly published anthology of plays, written by inner city students, teachers, seniors, and professional artists who have worked with the company over the past twenty years. The anthology – One Vision, Many Voices – also includes a chapter about the methodology and a Foreword by noted Narrative Therapist, Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer. The evening also served as a reunion of FYV alums, many of whom have taught for the program, served on the Board, or worked in the office.

"Mi Hija" by Jayson Torres (Cristina Velez & Franck de Las Mercedes)

"Etude" by Carla Cabibi (Ron Trenouth & Eli Husiak)

The evening itself was hosted by two alums who have taken their well-honed voices to Broadway, and beyond; Bobby Lopez, composer/lyricist of

Avenue Q and Book of Mormon, and Sarah Paulson, featured actor in Glass Menagerie and Crimes of the Heart. Although Bobby had to duck out early to receive an award from the Dramatist’s Guild, and Sarah was on location in Arkansas, they each spoke passionately to the audience via a pre-recorded video. Although FYV is a lifespan company, bringing wellness and creativity to people of all ages, this evening focused on raising funds for the afterschool groups, summer programs, and grief camps for tween and teens city-wide. The audience was treated to readings of four plays from the anthology, cast with alumni who are now out of college, but who had participated when they were teens themselves. The presentation was introduced by Founding Director, Gail Noppe-Brandon, who is both a theatre artist and a clinician. She told those gathered that, “the voice is the expression of the self, and if you have a self, you have all that you need.” The presentation was closed with alumna and FYV Board member, Aliah Greene, who is an officer at Morgan Stanley, making a pitch for everyone there to help to keep the Find Your Voice doors open for another 25 years!

"Intermission" by Celine Valensi (Tanya Butler Holder & Stacey Robinson)

"Swimming at Coney" by Sarah Goldstein (Alex Abel & Laura McGwyne)

Spaces are limited. To claim a spot, Museum School students should see Joel Lowy

and then attend our informational meeting.

For non-Museum School students, call 212-741-9868 to confirm attendance 

Informational Meeting: Tuesday, September 27^th (between 3:30-4:30pm)               

The NYC Museum School: 333 West 17 Street (between 8^th & 9^th Aves)

Find Your Voice offers Fall and Spring ongoing Afterschool Teen Workshops to New York City public school students city-wide These workshops are for:

Extraverted students needing to improve listening skills

Introverted students needing to improve speaking and classroom participation skills

Students who wish to improve writing skills

Students who excel at writing and need more creative outlets

Students with learning differences, ADHD, social phobias, stutterers, etc.

ESL students

Students who never finish what they begin

Gifted students who beg more challenge and stimulation than they are receiving during the school day

In other words, they are for EVERYONE!!!

Workshop format:

• Guided writing sessions in which students develop, revise, and complete a finished play, which ultimately tells the story of what is on their minds and in their hearts.
• Acting sessions in which students learn, through monologue study, how to listen and fully engage.
• A Final Presentation for invited guests, who share the pride and thrill of seeing the finished plays performed by workshop participants.

These are mixed level classes, where everyone faces their own challenges, and everyone is successful!

 “Everyone I know emerged from this training with a stronger voice!”                                

-  Robert Lopez, FYV alumn, composer Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon.

FYV workshops at “The Hub” are offered on a sliding scale, based on need, to all NYC public school students. Come join GED Plus, Urban Academy, Banana Kelly and Wings Academy in becoming a partner school in our Afterschool program at ‘The Hub’ in the 2011-2012 school year.

To Sponsor a workshop at “The Hub” OR Sponsor a student scholarship, click here.

For workshop schedule, call (212) 741-9868, or email: info@findyourvoice.us

Professional actors: Susan Gordon-Clark (FYV Participating Artist), David Newer, Maxine Prescott (FYV Participating Artist), Shyaporn Theerakulstit, lent their talent to the final presentation, under the direction of Natasha Marco, Assistant Director, FYV.  It was followed by a lively discussion – the audience was moved by the work, and amazed that the participants had completed their plays in only 5 sessions.

“It was a whole different perspective to be able to hear the thoughts of someone older.”

- Eli Hanft (teen)

“We learned a lot from them; there’s something about their freshness, they don’t have to ‘un-learn’ like we do.”

- Natalie Weicman (senior)

“It was so interesting to encounter an experience I haven’t had in life yet, and to learn about it from someone, before I have it.”

- Noraida Colon (teen)

“The guiding principle of the workshop was to find and resolve conflict; I had to keep hearing each character’s point of view. I learned a lot.”

- Roz Darzy (senior)