The Ecotheater Initiative 2024

The Ecotheater Initiative, a project of The Upper New, is ecologically themed readers’ theater to encourage incidental learning, with a twist: multiple iterations of production with various art forms, leading to multimodal accretion from simple dialogue to performance arts and short films.

If you’re not familiar with the concept of readers’ theater, essentially it is a form of dramatic play where the actors read scripts live on stage, using inflection and tone to convey character to the audience. No costumes, no sets. This type of performance lends itself to recording for podcasts.

We hope for creative people around the world to draft scripts and submit them to us for consideration. We’d produce the readers’ theater and release the performances as podcast episodes (or standalone productions).