Event

Big Green Theater

Big Green Theater (BGT) is a new program developed by The Bushwick Starr that combines environmental education with an annual green theater festival. Local Bushwick kids learn about the environment through writing original environmentally-themed plays. Those plays are performed by professional actors, directors, and designers using only green theater methods at this annual community festival.

Our performance venue serves the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn- a vibrant and diverse community that is currently lacking in environmental education. Our theater is committed to being a part of community environmental awareness, and this program is our way of actively working toward change through a creative and interactive process. With BGT, we are introducing a new model for arts spaces to provide community-driven green initiatives that serve a global cause.

Directed by:
Jeremy Pickard

Stage Manager:
Sarah Hughes

Lighting and Sound design:
Jay Maury

Set and Costume design:
Sarah Bertolozzi

PLAYS WRITTEN BY:
Jonathan Balcazar, 10
Destiny Diaz, 8
Isaiah Diaz, 9
Jenny Duran, 7
Alyanna Diaz, 11
Alvaro Campos, 9
Luz Balcazar, 13

FEATURING:
Reeyaz Bettencourt
Keith Daniels
Ava Eisenson
Jon Erdman
Danny Gardner
Flakoo Jimenez
Corey Johnson
Teale Sperling
Anne Zager

BGT Teaching Artists:
Maria Portman Kelly & Jeremy Pickard

Chief of Still Waters in a Storm:
Stephen Haff

*This production was created using only green theater methods (recycled materials for sets and costumes, fluorescent and LED lighting, paperless programming and ticketing, etc.).