Zip to SCript Youth in Development of Play

The Shoreline Theater Academy started as Kidz Konnection, a youth theater company in 2006. We are dedicated to educating youth in the performing arts for the purpose of cultivating self-empowerment and leadership skills that will develop strong community-serving leaders of the future.

Zip to Script is our project begun a year ago as a response to the direct impact the pandemic had on our children causing feelings of isolation and social anxieties which have directly negatively impacted academic performance.

The purpose of Zip to Script is to engage teens in a collaborative experience of self-expression for the purpose of writing and producing an original work that will bring awareness to our communities, both at home and abroad, about the alarming mental health crisis facing our teens and open meaningful dialogue between teens, their peers and the community at large including parents, educators, and civic leaders to affect positive change in our communities for all. Starting from nothing, participating high school teens will develop an entirely original play/musical for performance on a difficult social issue affecting today’s modern communities.

The project, in development now, allows our youth to work directly with New York based professional playwright Joey Brenneman in small focus workshops to develop the material out of discussions around topics that concern our teens today.

The project’s initial goal is to perform at festivals all over the New England – New York area as well as a specific focus on festivals both in the United States and internationally and culminating in launching the full project at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

We are fundraising to raise money to offset the costs needed to provide a safe and welcoming space for emerging artists to develop their creative work; support the necessary costs incurred from hiring industry professional artists to assist with this developement; and the expenses involved in taking a troupe of 15 dedicated youth artists to these national and international theatre festivals.

Ultimately, we hope this project will culminate in an inaugural presentation and later, curriculum disseminated across the globe to encourage a positive exchange of ideas and purposeful dialogue with the community, it's industry leaders, educators, government officials, parents and others serving the community around them about the unique struggles they are facing in today's modern world.

Shakespeare Silent Auction

By Kidz Konnection Youth Theater

Shakespeare Silent Auction

Campaign to Support Local Emerging Artists