GLOBAL THEATER COLLABORATIVE
Our community theatre group, Global Girls Theatre Collaborative (GTC), creates and stages original theatre that unpacks, challenges and heals. Adults and youth workshop original plays at our location, The Global Studio, and perform them for audiences in our space and in various venues around Chicago and throughout Illinois. Springing from first person narratives, shows confront timely themes: racial injustice, HIV/STI education, domestic and dating violence, adultism, teen pregnancy, sexual abuse, social media, street harassment and more with content that some find provocative, but community actors believe captures their realities.
GTC members travel and teach others to stage their stories. The exchanges begin with creating a safe space so that girls and women can feel comfortable sharing their stories. In addition to working with their peers stateside, members have traveled to Accra, Ghana; Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; Tamil Nadu, India and Grenada, West Indies. The India and Grenada arts exchanges were funded through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur International Connections program.
Global Theatre Collaborative Youth and Adult Performance History
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
International Day of the Girl
US Environmental Protection
South Side Help Center HIV Awareness Event
South Shore Hospital Annual Health Fair
Chicago Women & Prisons Ministry
Roosevelt High School shows on bullying
Northwest University Law School, Illinois
Channel 7 news with Tracy Butler
City of Chicago Taste of Chicago
2008 Illinois Department of Health HIV conference
2017 Campaign East St. Louis and St. Louis Tour with bully prevention Show
Club Owners Association of Greater Chicago annual scholarship banquet
“Eight Forty-Eight” Chicago Public Radio (Episode 29053)
Opened for Cheryl Lee Ralph, Indiana 2009 HIV Conference
World AIDS Day shows
US office of Immigration Office
Chicago Sister Cities International Youth Conference
Illinois Judicial Council Annual Dinner
Chicago Artist Month
Juneteenth Performances in Aurora
Chicago State University
Domestic Violence Prevention performance for Family Rescue
Opened for 2010 Miss America at Indiana HIV Awareness
Women of African Descent Coalition Health Conference ABD
The Chicago AIDS Foundation
Sigma Gamma Rho Youth Symposium, Peoria, Illinois
2017 Prince Hall Mason’s statewide conference
Two Illinois Tours, 12 Cities from Kankakee to Cairo with our HIV information and education (2008) and teen pregnancy prevention (2009) plays & workshops