Past Events
April 2018
November 2017
The Poetic Murder Mystery
Written and performed by the Crosstown Youth Theatre.
Free admission
April 2017
“It’s Funny How …”
Middle school musings expressed in theatrical sketches devised and performed by students of Humes Preparatory Academy.
November 2016
The Way I See It
Middle school students from the story booth after-school workshop will perform an original play about bullying. The students, who range in age from 11 to 14 years and attend Humes Preparatory Academy, devised the script themselves. In the play, the bullying incident is explained from the perspectives of parents, faculty, and kids.
April 2016
Why are grownups so boring? And other musings
The final performance of story booth’s spring after school acting workshop “Page to Stage“, led by Jazmin Miller, featuring students from Humes Preparatory Academy and student mentors from Rhodes College.
Rhodes Mentors: Karissa Coady, Emma Holtzman, Brynna Newkirk, Emmie Heath, Kevin Guevara, Patrick Leavey, Laura Eckelkamp, Lauren Edmond, Treston Norphlet, CaDana Campbell, Anne Healy, Anne Elizabeth Garrard, Jeanne Wilkinson
Lights, Camera, Actors
6th grade: Madison Ingram, Briana Springfield, Takyla Jones, Shantell Rogers
7th grade: Poeme Sherrod, Dereco Burrow, DeAnna Beckwith, Jalynn Williams, Zametria Scott, Ziyielle Braxton, Sammy Woods, Benjamin Inman, Javarius Smiley, Nicholas Allen
8th grade: Nya Linzy, Kerica Flake, Ca’Von Dalton, D’Airra Gibbs, Raymond Newton, Raymicha Newton, Alex Mendez
Instructors: Cookie Ewing & Jazzy Miller
November 2015
I Am Who I Say, and I Say Who I Am
Taught by professional playwright, actress, and University of Memphis MFA candidate in theatre Jazmin Miller, the Rhodes course entitled “Children’s Theatre” accomplished many specific goals in addition to what its title suggests, which was serving the 6th-8th grade of Humes Preparatory Academy in an after-school workshop hosted by story booth at Crosstown Arts.
For this workshop, Humes students were first encouraged to write statements of intent on why they wanted to participate. the selected seventeen middle school participants were then led by seven ….
