Promoting Youth Theatre in the Westside Cultural District

This is an image of a group of Summer SAY Sí theatre students and teaching artists smiling at the camera.

Youth theatre companies from Guadalupe Cultural Arts and SAY Sí worked together over four weeks during the Summer to write and produce original plays. This intensive served 40 students from SAY Sí’s ALAS Theatre Company and Guadalupe’s Grupo Ánimo – our largest theatre cohort to date! Students worked with renowned Chicano actors Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) and Jesse Borrego (Blood In, Blood Out) and learned about challenges and successes of professional actors in film and TV. The culminating performance opened to a standing-room only audience in SAY Sí’s black box theater.

Learn more about our summer activity with our 2024 Summer Report.