New Voices Showcase

From June 17-28, a group of talented high school students and recent grads will collaborate with professional artists from the renowned ensemble UNIVERSES at the New Voices Summer Intensive. They’ll be working behind the scenes to create bold, original pieces. On June 28, catch their final performance—an exciting showcase of fresh voices and imaginative new work.

UNIVERSES is a national Ensemble Theater Company of multi-disciplined writers and performers of color who fuse theater, poetry, dance, jazz, hip hop, politics, down home blues and Spanish boleros to create moving, challenging and entertaining works for the stage. The group breaks the traditional theatrical bounds to create its own brand of theater. Founded in The Bronx, New York in 1995, the members of UNIVERSES came together in the urban poetry and music scene of the late 1990s, quickly moving through the “downtown” performance scene to build a home for themselves in American ensemble theatre company. In their 24 years, UNIVERSES has performed at venues throughout the United States and toured extensively worldwide.