Classes
Urban Youth Theater - Summer Intensive
Ages 13–19
July 17–August 1, 2026
11am–2pm, Monday-Thursday
Class Information
Pricing
Free
Instructor
Millie Kapp
Join UYT this summer to create a performance in response to the Abrons Arts Center gallery exhibition, magic ephemera. Using durational performance, view points, and site specific techniques, the UYT ensemble members will craft a live work that processes and exists within the Artists and Residence upcoming show. The ensemble members will be guided by trust, humor, and collaboration as they further their experimental approaches to theater in a gallery setting. Rehearsals will be held four days a week to deepen ensemble members' theater skills. The summer session will culminate in a live show in the exhibition on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
Director: Millie Kapp
Visiting Artist: Nico Norena
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About Millie Kapp
In addition to her work in the Education Department at Abrons Arts Center, Millie currently teaches Performance classes at Tisch, NYU. She has taught theater to students of all ages and her teaching approach draws on her passion for improvisation, devised theater, and mixing mediums that prioritizes student authored work and collaboration.
About Nicolas Noreña
Nicolas Noreña (Artistic Director) is a Colombian theater maker and performer based in Brooklyn. He has worked with Richard Foreman, Mary Overlie, The Talking Band, Jess Barbagallo, and Object Collection among others. He is the artistic director of THE MILLION UNDERSCORES. Through this company he has developed, produced, directed and designed over fifteen original productions that have been presented in spaces such as The Museum of Modern Art, Theater Flamboyan, Triskelion Arts, The Brick Theater, Target Margin Theater, O.D.C San Francisco, as well as in galleries and public spaces in New York.
He was a LEIMAY fellow 2015-2020, LAB artist with Target Margin Theater in 2019 and was a resident artist with MABOU MINES 2015-2016 and Mercury Store 2023.
Nicolas currently teaches at the Experimental Theater Wing in New York University, and is the archive director of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project.
