We serve and engage the community through education initiatives. #ExileEducates
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PAPER WINGS
Working with TS Hawkins, and the in-classroom teacher, students learn how to craft and perform original monologues and plays based on themes they want to explore. In honor of Theatre Exile’s 26th season and the partner school’s curriculum, these young creatives are writing on the theme of “family”. Weaving a tapestry of tales that loom the many familial fabrics that blanket Philadelphia and the world beyond, these literary journeys are something you don’t want to miss! Currently, Paper Wings operates at Fanny Jackson Coppin (5th-8th grade) & Franklin Learning Center (10th-12th grade). At Coppin, Director of Education, TS Hawkins works with Kevin Konya and his English class. At FLC, Mx. Hawkins works with Amy Garcia and her French I & II students.
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Theatre Camp
What’s the anatomy of a scene? How can the characters, in my head, truly live on and off the page? Does this play capture my best voice? Unpack the answer to these questions and more during Theatre Exile’s Spring Break Theatre Camp. Students will have the opportunity to delve deeper into the wonderful world of theatre. After a week of theatre games, dramatic world building, script sculpting logistics, and advanced scene study, students will have an opportunity to display their creative storytelling skills in a community showcase to family and friends! Theatre Exile’s Spring Break Theatre Camp is an in-person activity open to grades 6-12.
SPRING AND SUMMER
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Education Workshops
Theatre Exile Virtual Workshop Series, developed by our Director of Education, TS Hawkins, serves as a necessity to propel the theatre landscape positively toward equitable sustainability of craft, to and for theatergoers & theatre practitioners. In partnership with Theatre Philadelphia, these workshops aim to support creatives from all facets of life to ensure that the theatre experience is wildly entertaining, boldly informative, and holistically transformative for everyone to witness!
EXILE EDUCATES
Mx. TS HAWKINS - Education Director
About the Director of Education: TS Hawkins (they/them) is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, sweet bread peaches (formerly, Cartons of Ultrasounds), Too Late to Apologize, In Their Silence (formerly, They’ll Neglect to Tell You), #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts…”, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, and The Hotel Haikus. Hawkins’ one-act choreopoem, AGAIN, was acknowledged for having the “Best Theater Moment of 2017”. #SuiteReality received the 2017 “Theatrical Reality Check” Surya Bonaly Award, an international publication in WORDPEACE Literary Journal, showcased in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre for the Black Lives, Black Words International Theatre Festival, and shares residence at the Carnegie Mellon University Hunt Library. Cartons of Ultrasounds had the pleasure of returning to New York for a limited off-Broadway run to rave reviews.
Recently, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G graced Australian stages as part of Antipodes Theater Company’s Ricochet Reading Series! Hawkins’ residency credits include National Black Theatre SOUL Producing Resident, Swim Pony Performing Arts TrailOff Writer-in-Residence, 1812 Productions’ Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Residency, Out of Exile Artist-in-Residence, Irondale Ensemble “To Protect, Serve, and Understand”, Painted Bride Art Center’s Souls of Black Folk, and Alphabet Arts Puppets & Poets. Notable writing contributions include Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution (University Professors Press), Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press), Family Legacies (SONKU Collective Magazine). WORDPEACE Literary Magazine/vol. 2 Spring Edition, Fragrance of Love (Poet Tree), Long Wharf Theatre Blog Series, The Dramatist – Motivation & Innovative Dramatists issues, and Pandemic of Violence Anthology (North of Oxford Press). Ongoing projects: TrailOff and Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience. tspoetics.com